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Surveillance video footage inside a Brooklyn deli where a white woman called the cops on 9-year-old Black boy alleging he grabbed her butt. However, the video shows this is not the case the New York Post reports.

The footage shows Teresa Klein standing at the counter of the Deli on Wednesday, paying for the items she was purchasing while the boy walked past her to leave the store followed by his mom. He was carrying a backpack and a plastic bag and it appears the bag brush against Klein as he passes.

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After the bag but what Klein believed was the boy’s hand touched her, she immediately turns around and begins arguing with the family.

A deli worker said “He was walking out with his mom and accidentally brushed up against her. His mother was right behind him” according to The Post.

The video captured of the ensuing confrontation in which Klein called 911 on the boy while he cried. The video which now has gone viral earning Klein the nickname “Cornerstore Caroline.”

Joni Torian a customer who witnessed the incident told The Post, “His mother was saying she was going to call the police. Me and my son were recording it, thinking if the white [woman] call the police, who knows, maybe the mom could go to jail.”

“The mother was right behind him when she says he grabbed her very flat behind. Ain’t no mama gonna let her child sexually assault a woman. [The customer] started yelling, ‘Miss, you need to watch your son, he just grabbed my ass.’ It was kind of funny at first, but then she was saying, ‘I will call the cops.’ “

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