Living while black: All the routine activities for which police were called on African-Americans

(CNN) -- It's happened yet again.

An African-American man in suburban Cleveland says a bank teller called police on him this month when he tried to cash a check from his employer. Although the man didn't explicitly cry "racial profiling," many observers see the incident as another in a dispiriting and all-too-familiar series.

In 2018, police across the United States have been urged to investigate black people for doing all kinds of daily, mundane, noncriminal activities.

This year alone, police have been called on African-Americans for:

• Operating a lemonade store
• Golfing too slowly
• Waiting for a friend at Starbucks
• Barbecuing at a park
• Working out at a gym
• Campaigning door to door
• Moving into an apartment
• Mowing the wrong lawn
• Shopping for prom clothes
• Napping in a university common room
• Asking or directions
• Not waving while leaving an Airbnb
• Redeeming a coupon
• Selling bottled water on a sidewalk
• Eating lunch on a college campus
• Riding in a car with a white grandmother
• Babysitting two white children
• Wearing a backpack that brushed against a woman
• Working as a home inspector
• Working as a firefighter
• Helping a homeless man
• Delivering newspapers
• Swimming in a pool
• Shopping  while pregnant
• Driving with leaves on a car

And these are just some of the incidents that CNN has reported. There are no doubt many others. 

"It was highly embarrassing," the Cleveland man told reporters. "The person who made that phone call ... I feel as though they were judging."

A review of news headlines this year shows that police were also called on other people of color. But it seemed to happen most often to black people: black people just going about their business.