*It’s been a minute, but here we go again. Another white person is caught on tape calling police on a black person because … well, just because. You know how it goes.
In this case, the man, a father was begged by his tearful son not to do it, but we’re sure you know how that turned out.
The story is essentially this. The white man accused the visitor (Wesley Michel) to an apartment building, a black software engineer, of trespassing and put a call into the authorities. However, the guest insisted he was just visiting a friend.
While his father was on the phone, according to the Daily Mail, the man’s son tugged at his jacket and pleaded with him to stop, saying: “Daddy, don’t.”
We’ve also learned that the video of the incident was filmed in the Bay Area and is believed to have been taken by Michel, the engineer at the center of the row, and was shared online by activist Tariq Nasheed.
According to Nasheed, the white man was a YouTube employee who has since deleted his social media accounts, although his identity has not been confirmed.
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Here’s more via Daily Mail:
The video shows the white man standing by a door with his son while the black man is filming him.
At the start of the clip the white resident pulls out his cell phone and says he will call police on the ‘trespasser’.
Warning him not to, the black man says: ‘I’m recording you right now and you’re going to be the next person on TV. Just remember that, and you have your son with me.’
The white resident retorts: ‘You don’t need to threaten me, you just need to get out of the building.’
As he tells police that ‘there’s a trespasser in my building’, his son wails: ‘Daddy, don’t. It’s for better. I agree with him, daddy.’
Suspicious whether the black man’s friend really exists, the caller says he is willing to ‘hold the door here for you while you call your friend’.
Speaking to police, he says the visitor is ‘filming me and refusing to leave’ and claims he ‘tailgated through the door, as I left he walked in’.
The black man mocks his concern, saying sarcastically: ‘I’m just here to rob a mailbox’.
Describing the visitor, the caller says cautiously that he ‘appears to be African-American’ – a statement mocked by the black man.
Asked to provide the friend’s name, the black man said: ‘I don’t have to tell you s***.’
‘Listen to your son, walk away, I will stop this. I will stop the recording.’
The son tugs at his father’s jacket again and says: ‘Yeah, I agree, let’s go daddy. Let’s go now, I don’t like this.’
Off screen, the man’s friend arrives and is warmly greeted before the white man finally puts his phone down.
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