On a recent summer day, a Black man was walking along a public sidewalk in a residential neighborhood when a stranger approached him and demanded to see his ID.

The stranger, an Indian man who identified himself as Anand, was neither a police officer nor someone with the authority to stop a citizen and request identification. Rather, he was just a resident of the area who was apparently on a racial profiling rampage.

“I know this is not your house. I know you don’t live in this neighborhood,” he told the man filming the interaction. The video has been circulating on social media since it was posted on Aug. 1 and now has over half a million views.

“I’m in my own neighborhood where I live, walking near my house, and I have this man asking, ‘Do I live here?’… I’m going to start a civil law

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