Protesters gathered outside the home of a New Jersey woman after she was recorded calling the police on her Black neighbor and accusing him of assault.
The group of young people gathered outside the woman's Montclair, NJ home carrying signs and chanting "Black Lives Matter" and "Your racism has got to go". They later said she called the police again, claiming the rally participants threw things at her house.
The initial June 29th incident began when the woman confronted Fareed Nassor Hayat and his wife Norrinda about a stone patio installed in their yard. She claimed the work was illegal and demanded to see town permits for the construction. Hayat told her a permit was not required per town codes.
According to Hayat, the woman walked onto their property three times in a half hour, despite the his repeated requests for her to leave. She then called local police, claiming "the gentleman who is taller than me pushed me off his property,’.
Fareed later posted the video to his Facebook page with the following message:
"It has happened again. White entitlement and black hate embodied in Susan who lives on Marion Road and works at the EPA, called the police to lodge a false report of assault against me when told to leave our property. Susan, aka "Permit Karen,” came onto our property three times within thirty minutes to demand to know if we had the proper permit to install a stone patio in our backyard, on the other side of the fence of her yard. When asked if a permit was required by law, she said she didn’t know, but insisted we answer her questions and submit to her demands, or she would call the police to force us to stop improving our home. (A permit is not required in Montclair for a stone patio this size. This fact was known to us through our own independent research, our contractor and later verified when building and safety arrived at our home to investigate her complaint.) When challenged about her flawed legal conclusions, assumption of right, her lack of agency over our home and our eventual demand that she leave our property immediately, Susan decided to call the police and make a false report of assault. She invoked centuries of brutality in her call to the police and sought to put her black neighbors back in their place. She believed that we were required to answer her questions and smile while doing so. But to her surprise, her efforts were met by two proudly black human beings, parents, lawyers, law professors, activist, community members, neighbors, citizens and fighters, who refused to submit. Her efforts were also met by a collection of largely white neighbors, who refused to simply go along with her racist efforts or not stand up against her attempt to invoke the racist power of the state through police. Their efforts were antiracist ideology at work. Each neighbor declared to her and the police that she summoned, that she was a lie and no such assault occurred. She left our home, rejected and unfulfilled, yet still empowered to do future harm. To her Black Lives Don’t Matter when up against her presumed inalienable rights of whiteness. She did not see the flaw in her ways or apologize for her behavior. Her type, the racist, must be rejected and ostracized like she was today by Norrinda and I, but equally important, by our white neighbors here in Montclair and our white and non-white allies worldwide."
The woman in the video declined to comment about the permit incident or the ensuing protests .
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