Royal Oak, Michigan police officers were filmed questioning a black man and refusing to let him leave for looking at a white woman 'suspiciously'.
Michigan local Kimiko Adolph recorded and streamed the video on her Facebook Live in order to show people how 20-year-old Devin Meyers was being treated, despite having done nothing wrong.
"They got him surrounded," she says in the video, "So I’m not going to leave the brother out here."
Adolph later explained to the Daily Dot that it was her responsibility to film altercations such as the one she witnessed:
"I have three black sons, and he was by himself, surrounded for no reason," she said.
In the video, Meyers can be heard trying to explain that he was on his way to meet his girlfriend at a cafe when he was stopped by police for no reason.
The officers claimed that they were simply responding to a call that he was engaging in 'suspicious activity.'
"So if someone calls about someone, we’re not supposed to respond?" one of the officers asks.
"I’m pretty sure if she would’ve done the same thing," Meyers said of the white woman who made the call, "You would’ve let her go 10 minutes ago."
After thirty minutes, police finally let Meyers leave.
After posting the video to her social media, Adolph received a ton of praise.
"Shout out to this black woman, Kimiko Adolph who recorded this," one Twitter user wrote," She stood by him, possibly saved his life."
h/t: Daily Dot
