Edit Updating OP with news story. She wasn't calling the cops.
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Rashsaan Muhammad and Mattie Khan were waiting for their order inside Little Big Burger on North Mississippi Avenue when they noticed a woman standing across the street, looking at their parked car.
"She looked odd, but it didn't alarm us," Muhammad told the Mercury in a phone interview. Only when the African American couple had their to-go bags and were walking back toward the car did they sense something was up. According to Muhammad, the woman was on the phone when they reached the car. Khan said she could hear the woman describing their vehicle and reading off the license plate number.
Update: According to a source close to the woman (who asked to remain anonymous), she was on the phone with Portland Bureau of Transportation's parking enforcement hotline—not the police.
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The video doesn't show much of the car, but it's clearly sticking out an inch or two in front of a curb where a crosswalk begins. Muhammad said he knew the space was a tight fit when he parked, but knew it wouldn't take him more than 10 minutes to pick up their order.
"She didn't try to talk to us. She just called the police," Muhammad said. "Why would people spend the time just trying to make our lives harder instead of talking it out like neighbors?"
While it's very possible the caller didn't know the car was owned by an African American before calling the police, the video joins the long list of viral clips we've seen this past year of white women calling the police on people of color over minor violations—whether its for using a charcoal grill in a public park or for an eight-year-old girl selling water in public without a permit. Most recently, a white woman called the police after seeing a black man babysitting two white children in Georgia.
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