Alison Ettel has been identified as the woman in the viral video that shows her calling the police on an eight-year-old girl who was apparently selling water in front of her own home. The incident happened in San Fransisco, California.

The young girl’s mother, who recorded the video, was outside their apartment building with her daughter when Ettel called the police.

Once the girl’s mother began recording, Ettel attempted to hide, which prompted the still unidentified mother “You can hide all you want. The whole world gonna see you, boo,”

Ettel responds by saying: “Yeah. Illegally selling water without a permit? Yeah.”

It just happened again in the Bay Area. This white woman called the police on an 8 year old girl selling bottled water IN FRONT OF HER OWN HOME. They want police to kill us. The girl was causing no harm. They know what happens when they call the police. This is evil. pic.twitter.com/71SmG80QwN — Shaun King (@shaunking) June 23, 2018



Ettel, 44, graduated from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with a Master’s degree in both business administration and urban planning in 2007. According to her LinkedIn, she currently owns a medical marijuana business called TreatWell Health. Prior to her marijuana business, Ettel was an equity trader and was a Brookings Institution researcher.

Since going viral, Ettel has deleted her Facebook page and made all of her social media accounts private..

Ettel’s profile on WomenGrow.com says she has a “varied professional background from Wall St. to thinktanks”:

Alison has a varied professional background from Wall St. to Thinktanks plus a few masters degrees. Her true calling, however, came after trying cannabis while recovering from a coma. After studying and researching the plant, she became passionate about providing high quality cannabis medicine for others and to raise the bar for the industry overall. TreatWell specializes in producing the highest quality cannabis medicine for both people and pets. Their flagship products are CBD rich tinctures made from whole plant extract in various potencies, targeting certain categories of conditions. TreatWell strives to be ahead of the curve, integrating the latest research and thinking on the benefits of the cannabis plant to offer innovative, effective and safe medicinal products for humans and pets.

Speaking to the Huffington Post, Ettel said that there was “no racial component” to the incident and that she “pretended” to call the police.

Ettel says that the reason for the call was that the girl’s mother was “screaming”, but that the incident has left her feeling “horrible and heart-wrenched.”

I’ve been trying to reach Alison Ettel but she has deleted her Facebook page and made all of her accounts private. She sells weed for dogs for a living. I’m hearing that she hates 8 year old Black girls who sell bottles of water. pic.twitter.com/RqTMnHc9fx — Shaun King (@shaunking) June 23, 2018



