A Missouri woman is defending her actions after getting fired from her job over the weekend after a viral video surfaced showing her trying to stop a black man from entering his own apartment building.

In an interview with a local Fox News affiliate released on Tuesday, Hilary Mueller, born Hilary Thornton, said she doesn’t think she did “anything wrong” in a video that shows her stopping a black man, D’Arreion Toles, from entering his apartment building on Friday.

In the video recorded on Toles’s phone, Mueller can be seen standing in the doorway of the apartment complex as the man tries to enter the building. She repeatedly asks Toles what unit he lives in as Toles asks her to move out of his way.

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"To Be A Black man in America, & Come home," Toles wrote in a Facebook post that also included a video of the encounter.

"Women tries to stop me from coming into my building because she feels insecure ... because she don’t feel that I belong, never really thought this would happen to me, but it did!" Toles continued.

He also added in the post that police knocked on the door of his apartment unit about 30 minutes later because she called them. "I was shocked this is America in 2018!" he said of the encounter.

Mueller was fired by Tribeca Luxury Apartments shortly after the incident. The company said the incident happened at Mueller's personal residence.

Mueller said in the interview with the local station that she was only following directions she had been given by the condo association board members when she stopped Toles that night.

“When I noticed an individual that I did not know here, my only thought was to follow directions I had been given by condo association board members repeatedly; and that’s to never allow access to anyone that you don’t know,” she said.

Mueller said she told Toles she couldn’t allow him to enter the building and then asked if he had a key fob, which she said is the “only indicator any resident has that they live in the building and he wouldn’t answer me.”

She also claimed Toles forced himself into the building but that it wasn’t captured on video.

“Because the camera was pointed at the ground and that’s when you hear me say, ‘Oh my God, are you serious?’ and that’s when he says, ‘Go ahead, call police,’” Mueller said.

She said that’s when she decided to follow Toles to his room. There, she said she realized he had door keys to gain access into his apartment.

Mueller said she has received death threats since the incident and told the local station she is not a racist.

“That’s false and heartbreaking,” Mueller said. “Those are words that cut deep.”

However, Mueller contends she does “not think she did anything wrong” despite being accused of racial profiling.

“I upheld the ask of me to its fullest extent,” she concluded.