Video of Minnesota man threatening to call police on black entrepreneurs goes viral
Source: Guardian
Footage surfaced as Minneapolis reels from killing of African American man George Floyd, which created a global outcry
Guardian staff
Wed 27 May 2020 20.25 EDTLast modified on Wed 27 May 2020 21.05 EDT
A video of a man in Minneapolis questioning whether several young black men were entitled to be working out in the same gym has gone viral in the latest example of apparently racist behavior aimed at African Americans going about their every day lives.
The video – which spread rapidly on social media after being posted on Instagram - appears to show local businessmen Tom Austin telling a group of young black men that he would call police inside the gym at the MozAic East building in Minneapolis.
The clips were posted by Team Top Figure, a group of black entrepreneurs who also stated that each of their members had access to the gym as they worked out of an office in the building.
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They show Austin, who also worked out of the building, asking the men which office they worked at and then threatening to call the police. He then appears to make a phone call to building security instead.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/27/video-minnesota-police-black-entrepreneurs-gym
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