WATCH: White woman calls the cops on black man who’s trying to fix up house in her neighborhood
SIGH ANOTHER DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE BLACK. ? She was like… *Mr Rogers voice* DON’T YOU PLEASE BE MY NEIGHBOR!
A video posted on YouTube earlier this month shows a black real estate investor in Memphis, Tennessee dealing with local police officers after a neighbor called them on him while he was trying to fix up the next-door house.
As real estate investor Michael Hayes writes, he went to the house, which is in a dilapidated condition, to inspect it. The woman came out of the house and asked him what he was doing. At this point, he showed her the investment contract that he had giving him permission to work on the house, as well as written permission that he received from the house’s owner to be on the property.
However, this didn’t seem to satisfy the woman’s suspicions about him, and she ended up calling the police……