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A Black man who was babysitting two white children says a woman called the police on him while the children were in his care. The incident took place on Sunday when Corey Lewis, 27, treated the kids to lunch at a Subway inside Walmart according to Yahoo.

Then Lewis, who runs a youth mentoring program Inspired by Lewis, was standing with the two kids outside his car while one of the kids finished eating when he noticed a white woman sitting in her car, staring.

“She pulled up alongside us and asked, ‘Are the kids OK?’” Lewis told Yahoo Lifestyle. “I answered, ‘Why wouldn’t they be?’ She just smirked and drove off.”

The woman circled the parking lot and returned to Lewis’s car, saying, “Can I ask the little girl if she knows who you are?” and Lewis answered, “No, you cannot.” The woman then said, “OK, I will take down your license plate,” and left.

“I asked a few white witnesses if it looked suspicious that I was caring for two white children, and they said ‘Kind of,’” says Lewis. “But the kids were goofing around and eating, and there was no sign of danger.”

Lewis then went to a service station and while he was pumping gas he noticed the woman’s car again. He then left the service station drove to his house and when he arrived, so did the woman and a police officer.

“I didn’t do anything — the police is here now!” Lewis said in a video shared to Facebook with more than 230K views. “I’m being followed and harassed.”

In the video, the officer whom Lewis stated was courteous spoke to the children, who confirmed Lewis’s identity.“Two white kids being with one black male is suspicious,” Lewis said in the video. “I work with kids every day.”

The officer called the children’s mother and she was flabbergasted by the whole incident, “I thought it was a joke,” Mango tells Yahoo. “I said, ‘Is it because there’s an African-American male driving my kids around?’ and the officer, who was embarrassed and apologetic, said, ‘It appears so.’”

Mango said her kids were frightened by the whole ordeal, “My son said, ‘The woman followed us because we have peachy skin and Mr. Lewis has brown skin, and she thought he was kidnapping us.’ They were both fearful that Corey wouldn’t be able to babysit them anymore.”

Lewis told Yahoo, A black man with white children just didn’t look right in this woman’s eyes.”

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