White father furious after being accused of kidnapping his own biracial daughters after family trip to Walmart

A dad visited by police was suspected of stealing his three mixed race children because he is white.



After a routine trip to a Woodbridge, Virginia WalMart, Joseph—a white man who says he does not want his last name revealed—took his three young daughters home.



Then a visitor came knocking at the door. It was a police officer with a shocking question.

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Shocked: Woodbridge, Virginia dad Joseph got a visit from a cop after someone suspected of stealing his children because he is white and they are biracial

‘Did he just ask us if these were out kids,’ Joseph’s wife Keana, who is black, recalled wondering, in an interview with Fox 5 DC .



But she knew the answer. The officer from Prince William County Sheriff’s Department had been sent to determine if the three little girls, a 4-year-old and 2-year-old twins, were Joseph’s.

‘He asks us very sincerely, “Hey, I was sent here by Walmart security. I just need to make sure that the children that you have are your own,”’ Joseph said.



Someone at the department store had apparently seen Joseph with the girls and called police with a concerned that he’d kidnapped them.

Dumbfounded: 'Did he just ask us if these were our kids?' wife Keana recalls wondering after the cop was tipped off by a Walmart customer that Joseph may not be the father of his own four daughters





The officer went so far as to question one of the kids after the couple of almost 10 years confirmed they were, in fact, their children.



‘I was dumbfounded,’ says Keana. ‘He took my ID and asked my 4-year-old to point out who her mother and father were.’



Though, the sheriff’s department officer said it was Wal-Mart’s security that raised the alarm, the store offered a different story.



When Keana called Wal-Mart demanding an explanation, she was transferred to the security department and told at customer had gone to security with concerns Joseph and the children ‘didn’t fit.’

Inappropriate? The police officer asked the couple's 4-year-old daughter to 'point out who her mother and father were'

Diplomacy: Keana called Walmart and was told a customer had alerted security that Joseph and his 3 daughters 'didn't match up'

‘And I said, “What do you mean by they don't fit?”’ recalled Keana. ‘I was trying to get her to say it. And she says, “Well, they just don't match up.”’



As the Huffington Post points out, the state of Virginia leads the nation in interracial marriages. And the marriages themselves have increased exponentially.



A Pew study found that, in 2010, 15 percent of new marriages crossed racial or ethnic lines. Thirty years ago, the number was half that.



The couple, though deeply troubled by the events, says they aren’t surprised. They say they’ve received looks from strangers for years but neither have ever been suspected of stealing their own children.



Nevertheless, Joseph and Keana said they won’t ever shop at Walmart again.