Black doctor tapes man using car to block gate to her home community

Nnenna Aguocha lives in a gated townhouse community in Buckhead, Atlanta. That’s a pretty wealthy area, and Aguocha is a doctor. According to Aguocha, she was coming home after an overnight shift when a man, in a SUV ahead of her, stopped his car at the entrance of her gated community, put on his hazard blinkers, and proceeded to exclaim that he was stopping Aguocha from entering.   

"He got out of the car and threatened to call the police on me because I was trespassing," she said in the video recording taken at the scene. "This is racial profiling at its finest."

He called the police and so did Aguocha, who used her key fob to open the gate in front of the police. Some of the video of the incident can be watched below, as Aguocha recorded a lot of the 30-minute harassment on her phone. 

When this altercation was going on, what went through my mind was this guy could do absolutely anything to me. He could shoot me dead on the spot because he was “trying to protect the neighborhood” and the property and people would make up stories later.

That feeling, based in a very well-documented reality, is one of the terrorisms of racial profiling. A white supremacist system works because everyone knows the deal—even if they aren’t consciously thinking about it. They size up a situation and know that the state will protect them over someone else, will believe them over someone else; they know that the state is there to protect them from people like that.

According to 11Alive, the man who decided to wield his powers of racism doesn’t actually live in that gated community. He’s a townhouse owner.