A dog owner who is black says a white woman in a Brooklyn dog park threatened to call the cops on him and his fiancée — allegedly telling them to “stay in [your] hood” after she mistook their pooch for one barking loudly.
Frederick Joseph said the woman confronted him and his fiancée as they were leaving a dog run in McCarren Park in Williamsburg.
“At the dog park in Brooklyn with my fiancé and this white woman was threatening to call police and told us to ‘stay in our hood’ because she had our dog confused with another dog who had been barking loudly,” Joseph wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
“So, I started recording and she tried to slap the phone out my hand,” he added.
Joseph shared footage of the woman trying to hit his phone and then giving him the finger.
“You just left the dog park to tell us to stay in our hood?” Joseph could then be heard saying.
“Oh my God, did you just say that to me? S–t,” said the woman, clutching her hand to her chest.
Joseph then turned to another man nearby and asked, “I’m sorry you were right here and watched this whole thing. Did she not just stand here and tell us to stay in our hood?”
“She did,” the man replied.
The woman then apparently became “surprised” that the bystander backed them up and took off, Joseph said.
It’s unclear what exactly occurred before the video was recorded.
The NYPD said it was “looking into the incident” but would not confirm whether a report was filed.
The footage, which has received more than 100,000 views, drew outrage from others on social media who slammed the woman for acting like the “victim.”
“Tried to claim the victim until the other white person confirmed it. My fellow white people speak up and speak out,” wrote one Twitter user.
“What’s chilling about this is you can see the exact second where she makes the decision to start lying and pretending she is being attacked. She clutches her chest and says, ‘Oh my god did you just say that to me?’ The violence of this and how easily she went there is terrifying,” another added.
Additional reporting by Tina Moore