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White Man Who Got Dragged For Video Of Calling The Cops On Black Women At A Swimming Pool Blames His Autism

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">A white man recently faced backlash for calling the cops on two black women who were relaxing poolside with a glass of wine at their apartment complex&period; He was seen on video following the women and is now blaming his autism for his controversial actions&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Nick Starr-Street hopped on social media to tell his side of the now viral video and maintain that he’s not a racist&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m autistic and lack a gauge that goes anywhere but 0 and 100&comma;” Starr-Street wrote on Facebook&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When I see a lease violation&comma; I call it out and do everything in my power to make sure it is resolved&comma; no matter who is the person violating&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Starr-Street reportedly called police on two separate groups of black women at The Edition Apartments in Hyattsville&comma; Maryland&comma; for having glassware by the pool — a lease violation&comma; according to Street-Starr&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;yahoo&period;com&sol;lifestyle&sol;man-facing-backlash-for-repeatedly-calling-police-on-black-women-pool-blames-autism-234229470&period;html">&commat;yahoolifestyle<&sol;a> reports&period; One incident happened on June 22nd and the other on June 23rd&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The women who say he harassed them obviously feel his actions are racially motivated&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This white man literally stalked us from his apartment for damn near a mile just cause we were at the pool drinking wine and taking pictures&period; Called the police and all&&num;8230&semi;I cannot make this up smh&comma;” said Gaelle Claude under a video she posted to Twitter&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In the first incident tweeted about on June 22&comma; Felecia Soso claims her friends were hanging out at the pool when Starr-Street made a complaint about their glassware and music&period; He allegedly yelled at her friend and later recorded her friend on camera admitting that she had glassware&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Although a video shows that her friend agreed to get rid of the glassware&comma; adding&comma; &&num;8220&semi;What else do I need to do for you to be comfortable&quest;&&num;8221&semi; Starr-Street immediately stopped the recording to show the video to the leasing office of the apartment complex&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">When the leasing office took no action&comma; Starr-Street then<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">reported the women to the Hyattsville Police Department&period; They reportedly sent two officers to the scene and later left after speaking with Soso and her friends&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I see this stuff online but having this happen in person like BLATANT racism for NO reason at ALLLLLLLLL&comma;” Soso wrote on Twitter&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve honestly seen SO MANY TYPES of racism&&num;8230&semi;but we weren’t doing ANYTHING BUT EXISTING&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">It was Claude’s incident that went viral because of Starr-Street&&num;8217&semi;s alleged harassment of the women&period; However&comma; he says he was following the pair after they allegedly attacked him and once again used his autism as an explanation&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The women also had receipts of what happened at the pool and said they did not attack him&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"50644" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;white-man-who-got-dragged-for-video-of-calling-the-cops-on-black-women-at-a-swimming-pool-blames-his-autism&sol;" data-secure&equals;"0fd8f29de8"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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