Woman Is Fired After Video Shows Her Blocking a Black Man From His Condo

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He said it made him feel “like you can’t be who you are in America.”

In one of the videos, Mr. Toles is in an elevator and Ms. Mueller follows him. He says, “So now you’re going to follow me?”

In another video, she trails him in a hallway, saying she wants to introduce herself because he is a neighbor.

“I do not want to speak with you,” he says. “Please stop following me. I’m going to call the cops for harassment. That’s my next step.”

The last video shows Ms. Mueller outside his unit, with Mr. Toles standing in the doorway. “You just followed me all the way to my door,” he says. “And you see my keys in the door.”

“As a record I just want to say, ‘Hi, what is your name?’” she begins to say before Mr. Toles cuts her off.

“Ma’am — you just — no. Have a good night, ma’am,” he says. “Don’t ever do that again.”

Brandon Mueller, Ms. Mueller’s estranged husband, said in an interview on Sunday that he was shocked to learn about the encounter after he got messages and notifications on Facebook.

On Facebook, Mr. Mueller, who has a black father and white mother, posted a video in which he said he was disappointed about what happened. He said he had been separated from Ms. Mueller for more than a year and had not lived in the Elder Shirt Lofts building for just as long.

saranowitz on October 15th, 2018 at 16:52 UTC »

How awkward is it going to be when they bump into each other next time in the elevator.

ph33randloathing on October 15th, 2018 at 16:38 UTC »

She was so uncomfortable she followed this dude around for half an hour?

oldcrow on October 15th, 2018 at 15:25 UTC »

Kudos to that guy for being so calm and collected. I'd have probably lost my shit despite recording myself.