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A white realtor in Missouri was terminated from her job after a viral video showed she tried to block a Black man from entering the luxury condominium complex where he lives.
D’Arreion Toles was returning to his loft in downtown St. Louis when a white woman, identified as Hilary Brooke Mueller, tried to keep him from entering until he proved he lived in the building, reported CBS affiliate KMOV 4.
In videos of the incident uploaded to Facebook, Toles asked the woman multiple times to “please move.”
“I can,” she responded. “Do you live here?”
“I’ve already answered that question,” Toles, 24, replied. “Excuse me.”
Mueller refused to get out of Toles’ way and told him she felt “uncomfortable.” Shen then followed him into the elevator and to his front door.
The woman’s employer, Tribeca Luxury Apartments, released a statement on Sunday saying they found her behavior “disturbing.”
“The Tribeca-STL family is a minority-owned company that consists of employees and residents from many racial backgrounds,” it said. “We are proud of this fact and do not and never will stand for racism or racial profiling at our company. After a review of the matter the employee has been terminated and is no longer with our company.”
Toles said his incident is one example of “something that is recurring in America.” He also told KMOV 4 that he wishes the woman “the best” and “would still have a conversation with her.”
“I am not mad at her. I am not upset with her. I am not going to go after her legally or anything like that,” he said.
When she first encountered him at the communal door she said, 'do you live here? I'm sorry the keypad is right there, I'm sorry I'm uncomfortable [getting out the way].
Mr Toles, who was still standing in the street, replied, 'you're blocking me into my building, it's my building as well, so can you just get out of my way. I live here and your blocking my way. I've already buzzed in'.
How do you already buzz in if you're standing in the street???
Maybe I'm a bit behind on technology but I don't know of any communal door that you can buzz in from the street nor do I know of one where you can buzz in and the door remains unlocked if you leave it.
Unless someone can tell me how this is possible then here's what I would say really happened:
Woman buzzes in through the communal door. Man behind her tries to use her buzz in as his own out of convenience. She won't let him and he freaks out then gets out the camera to film.
He escalated a perfectly reasonable request to have him do his own buzz in and she happily played along with the escalation then went psycho on him by calling 911.
She should have expressed herself better in telling him she wasn't going to allow her buzz in be his buzz in, he should have not been butthurt over it and try to piggyback on her request, and she should have left the matter alone after he produced his key which got him in his personal apartment.
He was looking for an incident...she gave him one. They deserve each other.
I guess this is how men handle conflict now, run like a little girl to social media.
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