It was a tight parking spot. That’s how it started.
A white driver in Maryland got into a dispute with a Black woman over a space. Reasonable people disagree about parking situations constantly. They make a face, they gesture, they move on.
This man hurled a racial slur, doused her car in coffee, spat on it, and told her she belonged in a zoo.
She had her phone out. She got everything on video. She got his license plate.
The footage hit the internet on August 30 and moved fast. Viewers identified it immediately as a hate crime. They got to work trying to ID him. A popular X account claimed local police had filed charges. Law enforcement has not confirmed that. Authorities have not said what charges, if any, he faces.
Some people in the comments asked what she did to provoke him.
Most people correctly identified that there is no parking disagreement in the history of parking disagreements that ends with someone deciding another human being belongs in a zoo.
The man drove away in a Toyota Tacoma. The internet has his plate. This one is not going anywhere.