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A Portland white woman called the police on a Black man for parking the wrong way. Rashsaan Muhammad and Mattie Khan went into a local burger place and while waiting for their food a woman started inspecting their parked car.

Muhammad told the Portland Mercury, “She looked odd, but it didn’t alarm us.” While walking back to their car, when they noticed the woman was on the phone describing their car and reading off their license plate number.

“I tried to start a conversation, I asked her who she was calling and what was going on,” Muhammad said. “It was clear she was talking to the police.”

A source told the Mercury that the woman was making a call to the Portland Bureau of Transportation parking enforcement hotline. Klan began recording the conversation in the video the woman says “You can’t block the crosswalk,” she says. “Look at this. You are!”

Muhammad admitted that it was a “tight fit” where he parked.

“She didn’t try to talk to us. She just called the police, why would people spend the time just trying to make our lives harder instead of talking it out like neighbors” Muhammad said.

“It’s part of a bigger problem that we as a community need to address,” Muhammad said. “New people come in and change a neighborhood and it causes these kind of stressful situations. We don’t interact with each other they way we used to.”

“We’ve watched this city change,” said Muhammad. “And we can’t let this keep happening to our community.”

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