It annoys me when the media protects the perpetrator not the victim.
D’Arreion Toles was coming home from work when a white woman blocks him from entering his building and then follows him up to his room.
She calls the police and tells them that he choked her. She wasn’t charged with a crime of course, but at least one positive thing happened.
A white St. Louis woman was fired from her job Sunday after she tried to prevent a black man from entering the luxury apartment building where he lives. D’Arreion Toles said he was returning home from work when the unidentified tenant physically blocked him from entering the building at the Elder Shirt Lofts in the city’s downtown.
Tribeca Luxury Apartments in St. Louis said it was “disturbed” by the interaction in the video and confirmed the woman in the video was an employee, CBS affiliate KMOV reports. After reviewing the incident, the company said the woman was terminated from her position. It noted that the incident did not happen at one of its properties.
Just a disgusting person all the way around and Mr. Toles frankly is a better person than me in how he dealt with the situation, but as a black man in America he knew how quickly one wrong word could lead to his death.
Flip the page for the full interaction and Toles explaining what happened after the video when she lied to police that he choked her.
We have also IDed the woman as Hilary Brooke Mueller.