In the latest case of a white woman calling the police on a person of color for merely existing, video showed an entitled New York apartment resident practically accusing a Latino man trying to visit his aunt of attempting to burglarize the place. Alfredo Sandoval, an entrepreneur in real estate development, identified himself as the man in now-viral video footage he captured and posted on social media of the unidentified woman hassling him in front of his children.
“Who are you here for,” the woman was seen asking in the footage.
“My aunt,” Sandoval responded.
“You’re lying!” the woman scolded. “You’re lying. Who is she?”
Sandoval, obviously reluctant to tell a complete stranger his aunt’s name and exact unit, attempted to explain that she does, in fact, live on the second floor of the building and has lived there for about 60 years. Still, the woman confronting him demanded he leave, and Sandoval rightfully refused.
“You’re not the owner of this building,” he said.
“That doesn’t have anything to do with anything,” the woman responded.
“You’re doing this in front of my young kids. Why are you doing this to me,” Sandoval asked.
Instead of answering his question, the woman attempted to blame Sandoval. "You're doing it in front of the kids,” she said. You don't live here, and I'm asking you who your aunt is.”
She then broke a well-known parenting rule and directly involved one of Sandoval’s two children witnessing the encounter. “Who’s your great aunt honey,” she asked one of the children.
They don’t appear on video, but Sandoval can be heard saying: “Don’t. It doesn’t matter. Let go my kids.”
The woman he talked to appeared to be growing more and more belligerent. “Get out of here right now,” she shouted. Then appearing to call 911, she told the person she was talking to on the phone that all the man later identified as Sandoval had to do was tell her his aunt’s name.
“No. No, I do not. You’re no one,” he responded. “No, I do not have to tell you anything.”
Looking simply appalled at the suggestion she had no authority to control who enters the building, the woman said: “I live here, sir.” She then explained that Sandoval had to be lying. “She lives on the second floor? I doubt it. I doubt it. I doubt it,” she said. “Step back, sir. Step back. I know everyone in the building. Sir, step back,” she added before again directing her attention to the phone.
“There’s been a lot of theft,” she said.
“No, I’m not a thief,” Sandoval said. “I haven’t done anything.”
The woman went on to describe Sandoval as Hispanic, wearing an ESPN hat, and with his two young children.
The video prompted outrage on social media and led to the daughter of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. posting the footage on her Twitter page on Saturday. “Racism exists. It’s not a myth or a thing of a past,” Bernice King said in the tweet. “It endangers lives and creates devastation. Take a look at it here.”
Sandoval, however, later deleted several clips of the encounter he had posted on social media. “I do not wish any harm towards the person in the videos,” he said in a caption for another Instagram post. “My goal is to help create #ABetterUnitedAmerica.”
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He said in another post he is developing a real estate crowdfunding platform to buy his aunt’s building in East Village. He is also “working extensively” with lawmakers to pass a federal act under his children’s name “protecting unlawful invasion of privacy of guest and/or visitors of NY State Buildings,” Sandoval said. He called what happened "**Racism In America**” in a since-deleted Instagram post.
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“I exercised patience in a situation that was not deserving. I issued tolerance in the face of evil and I gave respect when it was not offered to me or my children," he said in the post. "This is not America or American." He went on to say he posted the video because his children had "to bear witness of this hate. I ask all my friends to please share this persons repulsive and inhumane behavior," Sandoval said. “When they go low, we go high."