A constituent called the police on a black candidate for the state Assembly while she was canvassing, according to a Madison, Wis. newspaper, and reported a suspected drug deal and suspicious vehicle.

Shelia Stubbs, who has served on the Dane County Board of Supervisors for more than a decade, was canvassing for votes in what she indicated to The Cap Times was a predominantly white neighborhood.

Stubbs’s mother and 8-year-old daughter, who are also black, were waiting in Stubbs’s car while she knocked on doors and introduced herself to voters.

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The man who called the police on evening of Aug. 7 reported that he thought the car was “waiting for drugs at the local drug house,” according to newspaper.

“WOULD LIKE THEM MOVED ALONG,” the notes from the call read.

Stubbs, a former parole agent and educator, said she saw an officer approach after 20 minutes of being in the neighborhood and speaking with residents, and told The Cap Times that the incident was “degrading.”

"It's 2018," she told the paper. "It shouldn't be strange that a black woman's knocking on your door. I didn't do anything to make myself stand out. I felt like they thought I didn't belong there."

Stubbs, 46, later won the Democratic primary for the seat with nearly 50 percent of the vote, and faces no Republican challenger. She will be the county’s first black representative to the state Legislature.

“I belong where I choose to go,” Stubbs said. “You don’t have to like me. You don’t even have to respect me. But I have a right to be places.”

She added that she residents of the community would have received three pieces of campaign mail from her, and that she was featured in local media, on top of her position as an elected official for years.

Stubbs said that her interaction with the responding officer was positive. The two exchanged cell phone numbers, and Stubbs offered to work with the officer on improving race relations in the county.

"It's just not OK," she said. "When you specifically target people of color and call the police, sometimes there's different outcomes."