*A white man named Adam called police on a black woman at their private community pool in North Carolina because she refused his request to show him proof that she was indeed a resident of the neighborhood.
The hashtag #IDAdam was born after video of the incident, posted by the black woman in question, Jasmine Edwards, quickly went viral.
“This is a classic case of racial profiling in my half a million $$ neighborhood pool,” Edwards wrote in the caption. “This happened to me and my baby today. What a shame!!”
Edwards claimed in the video that the man — identified by his lawyer as Adam Bloom — called police because she didn’t have an ID card on her, proving that she and her son lived in the Winston-Salem neighborhood where the pool is located. Residents are supposedly the only ones allowed to use the pool.
Edwards said she proved her residency by providing her address, but it wasn’t enough for Adam. He wanted ID.
“Where does it say that I have to show an ID to use my pool? My own pool,” she asks on video while speaking to Bloom in front of the responding officers.
“It doesn’t say she has to show an ID anywhere,” another resident says.
“I feel this is racial profiling,” Edwards says. “I am the only black person here with my son — and he walked all the way to me, to ask for my ID. He asked for my address. I give it to him, and then he came back and said, ‘Well, I didn’t catch your address correctly. Can you provide an ID to prove the address that you gave to me?’ And I said, ‘Why do I have to show my ID? Is there an ordinance in the neighborhood?’”
His lawyer, John Vermitsky, told The New York Post that his client works for the Glenridge Homeowners Association, where he and Edwards live, as the pool chairman and board member — so he’s required to ask people for IDs on account of his position.
In fact, he claimed that Bloom wasn’t even the one who initially complained about Edwards.
“He had a pool member come to him and say ‘this person doesn’t appear to be a pool member’ and asked to check their credentials, as he’s required to do so,” Vermitsky said. “[Edwards] became loud and confrontational, and he wanted to make sure that the situation was handled properly.”
One of the officers on the scene on Wednesday can be heard asking Bloom if residents are required to carry a “swim card” of some sort, granting them access to the pool area.
“Yes! I have one! That’s how I got in!” Edwards says. “What can I charge against him for racial profiling?! Because this is ridiculous.”
The male cop informs her that the incident would have to be handled as a civil dispute, but admits that he’s never heard of local residents being required to carry IDs at neighborhood pools.
“I’m just here with my baby — swimming,” Edwards says, scolding Bloom for wasting “taxpayers money.”
“I understand. I understand completely,” the cop replies. “If she has a card to get in the pool, I believe that should be enough.”
To which Bloom says: “Okay, let’s validate that it works then.”
Edwards proceeds to open the gate with her card, but still, Bloom is skeptical.
“They kinda make their way around sometimes,” he says, speaking to the cops. “But that’s good enough for me today.”
Watch below:
“ID Adam” now joins a growing line of white people who have been given nicknames for calling the police on black people for ridiculous reasons, such as “Permit Patty” and “BBQ Becky.”
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