White Man Calls Cops On Black Neighbor For Using Neighborhood Pool
Image by Facebook
By Josh Nathan-Kazis July 6, 2018
A North Carolina man named Adam Bloom is being accused of racial profiling after being caught on video calling police on a black woman at his neighborhood pool.
In a July 4 video that went viral, Bloom appears to demand identification from Jasmine Edwards as she attempted to enter her neighborhood pool.
“I feel like this is racial profiling,” Edwards says on the video. “I am the only black person here with my son in the pool.”
The video has been viewed more than 3 million times. Bloom was mocked as “#IDadam” on social media.
According to the Winston-Salem Journal, Bloom and Edwards live in the same neighborhood, residents of which have access to the pool.
In the video, Edwards hands a key card to the police officers, which they use to open the gate. “I don’t mind showing it to you, but it’s not a requirement for me to use the pool like he was requesting,” Edwards tells the police.
Bloom has been fired from his job since the incident went viral, according to the Journal. An attorney for Bloom told the Journal that Bloom is pool chairman of the neighborhood’s homeowner association, and that he confronted Edwards because someone else asked him to.
“Do you want to apologize, Adam, for what you did?” Edwards asks at the end of the recording, after she has entered the pool area. Bloom declines to do so.
Contact Josh Nathan-Kazis at [email protected] or on Twitter, @joshnathankazis
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning journalism this Passover.
In this age of misinformation, our work is needed like never before. We report on the news that matters most to American Jews, driven by truth, not ideology.
At a time when newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall. That means for the first time in our 126-year history, Forward journalism is free to everyone, everywhere. With an ongoing war, rising antisemitism, and a flood of disinformation that may affect the upcoming election, we believe that free and open access to Jewish journalism is imperative.
Readers like you make it all possible. Right now, we’re in the middle of our Passover Pledge Drive and we still need 300 people to step up and make a gift to sustain our trustworthy, independent journalism.
Make a gift of any size and become a Forward member today. You’ll support our mission to tell the American Jewish story fully and fairly.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
Join our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
Only 300 more gifts needed by April 30
