St. Louis – A white woman who was fired after she was shown on video blocking a black man from entering the St. Louis loft building where he lives says the man didn’t have an electronic key fob and forced his way inside.
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KTVI-TV reports that Hilary Thornton says 24-year-old D’Arreion Toles was trying to get in the building Friday night while she had the door cracked to let her dog use the bathroom. She says she was following the condo board’s instructions to not allow strangers inside when she repeatedly asked whether he lived there.
The video Toles posted online shows Thornton follow him into the elevator and to the door of his unit. Police responded but didn’t cite anyone.
Thornton’s former employer, property management company Tribeca-STL, says it found the interaction “disturbing.”
the question is: is she doing this because he is black or because she suspects that he does not belong in the building?
If it because he is black, so there is a case for being racist but if she suspects that he does not belong in the building, she is correct for not allowing him in unless he can justify himself.
She looks pretty stupid, that’s for sure. But is that a reason to be fired for a job?
The power of capturing something on video is unbelievable.
The woman was not a law enforcement officer, and she had no business in physically blocking the other tenant. If she was suspicious, she should have called the cops, and let them do their job. At least, she would have kept her job.
She clearly wasn’t threatened by him. She deliberately entered the elevator alone with him. That shows she was confident he wouldn’t harm her. I would call her actions bullying. Imagine if the tables were turned and he was blocking her from entering, and he followed her into the elevator, and he followed her to her apartment. What she did was illegal.
He should have shown her his key fob and ended it
In Florida, they call them “condo commandos.” Just a busybody.
To #5 - He was under no legal obligation to show her his key fob, as she had no legal authority; she was not a law enforcement officer, or a security guard. If she wanted to verbally ask a question, fine. However, when she started to become physical, that crossed the line.