Mom Hysterically Screams ‘Help,’ Accusing Black Man Pulling Into His Own Driveway of Following Her

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Sadly, most Black people in America are accustomed to racial profiling. Our parents prepare us for the moment it might show up in our lives. We read about it happening to other Black people across the world. It’s ubiquitous. Still, that doesn’t mean the occurrence of such incidents don’t catch us off guard, especially when they happen in the places where we are supposed to be safe, like our own homes. That is what happened to one Ohio man as he was pulling into his driveway after work. 

When DaMichael Jenkins came home one evening, he saw a woman and her two children in his driveway. Although this might have been cause for alarm or curiosity for most people, Jenkins said he didn’t think much of it.

“It’s typical to see kids and parents coming [in] and out of my house, as we have a young kid and a teenager,” he told People. “We have an open-door policy in the neighborhood.”

He thought the woman was at his home for a playdate or to visit his wife. So, he rolled down this window to ask the woman if she needed help finding the door. “I asked if she needed help and she didn’t respond. Then she started walking toward the front door,” he said.

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Jenkins continued pulling into his driveway. Security footage captured the woman on Jenkins’ front porch. She asked him, “Do you live here?” When Jenkins told her he did, she responded, “I don’t believe that.”

Jenkins was perplexed. “That confused me,” he said, per People. “I just felt confused. Then she said again, ‘I don’t believe that.'”

Afterward, she took her youngest child out of the stroller she had been pushing, letting it fall to the ground. She instructed her other child to follow her. Then she started running down the street screaming, “Help!” 

“At that point, I was scared and I was fearful,” Jenkins shared. “I realized she was running from me.” Jenkins wasn’t chasing her, though. Instead, he pulled into his garage, walked into his home, and found his wife, Brittany. She had been working in her office on the other side of the house and had missed the commotion.

He came in and said, “‘There’s a White woman crying and screaming and running down the street,’” Brittany said, recounting her husband’s words for People. Immediately, Brittany began to worry.

The couple have a 17-year-old son who was at work. She knew he would get home right around the time the police showed up. If they spoke to the screaming white woman first, she feared things could have gotten dangerous. 

Before the police arrived, Brittany opened her front door and went outside. That’s when she learned that the woman her husband was referring to had returned, this time with her own husband in tow. Brittany asked the two if they’d come there before.

“That was my wife,” her husband said. “Somebody chased her.” The woman, who has since been identified as Michelle Bishop, said a man in a gray truck chased her. “And so I come up and I’m going to pretend that I’m coming home. And so I … start walking to your back gate and he stops here and he goes, ‘Are you looking for someone?’” she said in the additional footage.

Brittany then interrupted Michelle to let her know that the person she’s referring to is her husband and he does indeed live there. That’s when Jenkins himself walked out of the home. He said Bishop looked worried. 

She told People in a statement that she ran to a neighbor’s house where she called police. She told authorities that she was being followed. The police told her that they would do an area check.

“After realizing my mistake, I found the police doing an area check of the neighborhood and explained to them that it was a misunderstanding and that there was no issue,” she explained.

When the police arrived at the Jenkins’ home, Brittany came out to speak to them while DaMichael, a real estate developer who built his family’s home, remained inside. “For me and my husband, it’s unsettling and scary to have those interactions … because of us being a Black woman and a Black man with Black children,” Brittany said.

“My hands started shaking, my heart started beating … I had to think, do I want to talk to the officer outside? Do I sit down, do I stand up? My husband hid in his own home because he was afraid.”

After the incident, Brittany reached out to her homeowners association. She told them what happened, hoping to prevent a similar occurrence. It asked to see the security footage. After she submitted it, she did not hear from the association again. The same was true for Bishop.

Although Bishop apologized in a video online, she did not reach out to the Jenkinses personally. Later, she shared another video positioning herself as the victim in the story, saying that now she and her family are receiving threats. 

As for the Jenkins family, they decided to share the video to provide a teachable moment. “The goal was for the community to be whole. We felt welcome and knew this was an isolated event … but the goal was to shed insight so we can learn from each other,” Brittany said.

Now that the story has garnered national attention, the family hopes that other people who find themselves in a similar situation can use DaMichael’s actions as a model.

“When you’re presented with a life-threatening battle test, it’s not always easy to remain calm and not react, but that can ultimately save your family’s life and your own life,” he told People. “And that is what I did.”