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Viral video shows child begging father not to call police on black man in lobby
BY JUSTIN WISE - 07/09/19 09:43 AM EDT
A viral video shared on Facebook last week showed a young child crying and begging his father not to call the police on an African American man who said he was waiting for a friend on the ground floor of an apartment building.
Wesly Michel, a software engineer, shared the three-and-a-half minute video of his Fourth of July encounter with the boy and his father in San Francisco.
Michel tells the man he is waiting to meet his friend and the father, who appears to be white and has not been identified, demands Michel call "your friend on the call box and have them come down and get you."
Michel declines, prompting the man to take out his phone and call the police, despite the protests of what appears to be his child. The clip had been viewed over 1.3 million times as of Tuesday morning.
more + video:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/452143-viral-video-shows-child-begging-father-not-to-call-police-on