RETWEET until this man is identified!
He harassed a g༺🍬roup of black teens in a gated community in the affluent Village of Wellington, here in my county.
According to him, "they didn't belong in this development."
According to the teens, he threate🀅ned to hit them w/ his car.
— Commissioner Omari Hardy (@OmariJHardy)
White Florida man threatens black teen in gated community
a white Florida man threatening three girls — including a black teen — with arrest, telling them they didn’t “deserve” to be in his gated community.
The confrontation between the teens and the unidentified 🔴man happened Sund🍎ay in the Grand Isles complex in Wellington, a village in Palm Beach County.
“You don’t belong in this development,” the man tells the girls as one of them records him in a video that’s been viewed on Twitter more than 282,000 times as of Thursday morning.
The girls and two boys were riding through the communit꧟ཧy in a golf cart when they say the man began to tailgate them in his Toyota,
The boys hopped off and the girls — Breonna Nelson-Hicks, who is black, and her two white friends — began walking to Breonna’s home in the community.
T꧑he roughly 90-second recording begins just before Breonna rushes inside to get her grandfather, Tony Nelson.
“What’s your name?” the man asks the girls. “OK, where do you live?”
One of the girls answers, “Why would we tell you any of this?”
The man responds, “OK, not a problem. I’m going to call the gate and have you all arrested. You do not deserve to be in here.”
“What did we even do wrong?” one of the girls wonders off camera.
Breonna then asks the man, “Do you have a problem? Because I can get my grandfather.”
“Bring him out right now!” he replies.
As Breonna grabs her grandfather, a woman can be heard telling the girls not to argue because “It’s not worth it.”
But the man interrupts, “It is because you’re driving illegally.”
“OK but you’re coming at a 15-year-old,” one of the girls shoots back.
He answers, “Because you’re 15 years old? You could marry in Mississippi or Alabama.”
That’s when Nelson comes out, telling the man, “Don’t stick your hand out. Did you threaten a child?”
Both Nelson and the man filed reports with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The report obtained by the Palm Beach Post doesn’t include the man’s name due to an exemption for 911 callers or people requesting emergency services.
“We received two calls and when the deputies arrived, the male had already gone home,” sheriff’s office spokeswoman Teri Barbera told the publication. “Deputies did speak to the juveniles and made contact with the male the next day. Based on both accounts no crime was committed.”
Nelson, who’s lived in Wellington for 33 years and is part of the village’s first black families, said he grew “more and more angry” after watching the video 15 or 20 times.
“It’s not going away,” he said. “I can’t let it die. … People aren’t understanding what’s going on.”