Photo via @cristinahatesyou/TikTok
July 16, 2021, 10:27 am
A viral video shows a woman calling the police and following around a Black man after she falsely accused him of stealing her son’s phone in a California Walmart. The man started filming her in the parking lot as she was on the phone with a police dispatcher and returns to the store to complain that the woman is engaging in racial profiling, and that’s when her son walks up with his phone in his hand.
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As it turns out, the kid had simply forgotten the device in his mom’s car. The video of the incident was posted on TikTok where it quickly gained over 1.1 million views and is now being held up as a perfect example of why you don’t accuse the first Black person you see around any time your stuff goes missing.
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The video was posted by an account going by “cristinahatesyou” and does not appear to belong to the man who filmed the incident, with the voiceover saying that the woman “racially profiled a Walmart customer & accused him of stealing her son’s phone.”
“She followed me outside the store,” says the Black man. “First, she was eyeing me in the store.”
When he tried to walk away, the woman began following him wherever he went.
“I’m a married man,” he jokes back inside the Walmart, where the woman had made the same false accusation to the store manager. The accused then brings up the topic of racial profiling, and you can see the woman role her eyes the moment she hears this phrase.
“Being responsible for the phone, that’s not my fault, but being racially profiled, that’s going to be her fault,” he says.
The woman then starts to say something about him in the parking lot when she stops and gets a look on her face like, as the voiceover suggests, “this is the moment she realized she f’ed up.” She appears to be looking back toward the parking lot and can be heard saying “this kid, I’m going to…”
As it turns out, her son had simply left the phone in the car, as children are not always the best at keeping track of their things. But rather than think to check the car, the woman decided to assume the nearest Black man had stolen it, and now she’s all over the internet.
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The woman first appears to make some excuses to the store manager, berates her son for a bit, and then, instead of apologizing, refuses to provide her name for him when he says he’s going to press charges on her for the false accusation and tells him to “go f— yourself” before grabbing a cart. Of course, he has already seen her car and can provide police with her license plate number, so he wishes her a nice day and the video ends.
The video, along with its incredible conclusion, soon spread to Twitter where the woman was resoundingly trashed for being a racist and generally a jerk. Her workplace was quickly identified, and Kaiser Permanente has already responded that they are investigating the conduct of their employee.
*First Published: July 16, 2021, 10:27 am
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