In an effort to share their side of the stop of three black women who found themselves surrounded by police after leaving their Airbnb, Rialto, California police have released new bodycam video of the incident. The woman who owns the property the women rented has broken her silence as well, according to ABC 7 News

The police were called by a woman who lives in the neighborhood after the three women failed to wave at her.

"If the kids had simply smiled at [my neighbor] and waved back and acknowledged her and said, 'We're just Airbnb guests checking out,' none of this would have ever happened," the property owner said. "But instead, they were rude, unkind, not polite."

After showing the footage, Rialto's chief of police complained that the department has been on the receiving end of a lot of unfair online abuse following the incident.

"Somebody who's part of neighborhood watch was vigilant, and they reported something that they felt was out of the ordinary," the chief said. "They saw something, they reported something, and the person reporting it is now receiving threats. And our department is receiving, across social media platforms, including the media, ridicule, and, frankly, it's not fair."

One of the women seen in the viral video of a group of black female tourists being detained by police officers as they were leaving their Airbnb has been identified as the granddaughter of Bob Marley. On Tuesday, the New York Daily News identified the main woman seen in the footage as Sharon Marley's daughter Donisha Prendergast.





The publication also reported Prendergast plans to sue California's Rialto Police Department in wake of the incident.

Additionally, Airbnb's Senior Advisor and Director of National Partnerships Laura Murphy sent a letter addressed to the Rialto Mayor as well as the Interim Chief of the city's police department expressing their concern over the incident.

"We are deeply disturbed by the public reports suggesting that the police department’s response was dictated by the guests’ race. As African-American women who have seen the inequitable treatment of people of color, we know that these kinds of incidents are often rooted in implicit and explicit bias," Murphy wrote in the letter shared with Blavity.

The letter also calls for a meeting with the mayor and interim chief.

"They are hurtful, discriminatory, traumatic and must end. We also deeply believe that all people of goodwill have an opportunity to work together to root out bias and ensure these kinds of incidents do not happen again. To that end, we write today to request the opportunity to meet with you and your colleagues to discuss Airbnb and the work the private and public sector can do together to fight discrimination," the statement continued.

This story will continue to be updated as new information comes in.

A group of black women vacationing in California were confronted by a swarm of police after leaving their Airbnb because a woman, who is believed to be white, suspected them of stealing from a neighbor's home.

Filmmaker Kells Fyffe-Marshall posted a video of local police interrogating the group last Tuesday, May 1, on Facebook. Fyffe-Marshall and the other women were surrounded by seven police cars and a slew of Rialto police officers as a helicopter tracking their movements flew above them. The neighborhood even went into lockdown in response to the presumed threat. She detailed the incident on Facebook:

“During our time in Cali we have been staying at an Airbnb. The 30th was our second morning and at about 11am we checked out. The four of us packed our bags, locked up the house and left. As you can see 3 of us were Black. About 10 seconds later we were surrounded by 7 cop cars. The officers came out of their cars demanding us to put our hands in the air. They informed us that there was also a helicopter tracking us. They locked down the neighborhood and had us standing in the street."

"Why? A neighbour across the street saw 3 black people packing luggage into their car and assumed we were stealing from the house. She then called the police. Why? A neighbor across the street saw 3 black people packing luggage into their car and assumed we were stealing from the house. She then called the police. At first, we joked about the misunderstanding and took photos and videos along the way. About 20 minutes into this misunderstanding, it escalated almost instantly. Their sergeant arrived... he explained they didn’t know what Airbnb was."

The women had to show officers their booking confirmation and contact the landlord to prove they had been guests at the home. However, the police detained them for nearly 45 minutes.

"Because they didn’t know what she looked like on the other end to confirm it was her.. they detained us - because they were investigating a felony charge - for 45 minutes while they figured it out," Marshall wrote on Facebook.

At this point, the group was frustrated and ready to leave. Police ultimately revealed that the unidentified woman called police because the group of women did not wave at her as they loaded their luggage in their car.

The woman's race has yet to be confirmed, but writer and activist Shaun King claims that the woman was white.

Surrounded by police on all sides, tracked by a helicopter, a group of young Black women come face the face w/ death as they leave an @Airbnb.



white woman called the police on them, accusing them of robbery, after they didn’t wave at her#ThisIsAmericahttps://t.co/cQMPLkbP50 — Shaun King (@ShaunKing) May 6, 2018

Airbnb has yet to release a statement regarding the matter.