A routine afternoon walk through a Jackson, Mississippi neighborhood took an unexpected turn when a woman says a stranger pulled over, took photos of her, and told her she had called the police.
Xenia Minton, who posted about the incident on TikTok shortly after it happened, said she was doing her usual daily walk when an older white woman pulled over on the side of the road. According to her account, the woman told her, “I’m taking photos of you now. I already called the police.” She said she initially assumed the driver needed directions or help, so the moment caught her off guard. “I was like, what?” she recalled. “I literally thought the lady had pulled me over to ask for directions or help.”
She said she was wearing a tank top and blue leggings, had her AirPods in, and was on the phone with a friend at the time — nothing out of the ordinary for her regular walking route.
She said the encounter caught her off guard
Once the woman mentioned that 911 had been called, she said her reaction was to freeze rather than document anything. “I know I’ve already talked to a lot of people. I should take a photo of her license plate and of what the lady looked like or record the conversation,” she said, adding that the instinct to gather evidence only came to her afterward, once she was speaking with friends about what had occurred. She later called the encounter “the weirdest thing ever.”
It wasn’t until she spoke with friends afterward, she said, that she began to see the encounter differently. “I didn’t even process it until later when I was talking to all my friends and that they were all saying, like, you just got racially profiled,” she said. She went on to explain that she was adopted from China and has lived in the United States her entire life, adding that all of her paperwork is in order.
The experience left her wondering whether her presence alone had made the woman suspicious, something that has happened to people going about ordinary business only to be questioned over why they were there.
More than 1,500 comments had piled up under the video at the time of writing. One commenter offered solidarity while pointing to a broader pattern, writing, “sorry that happened to you but we black Americans been dealing with it our whole lives.”
Another questioned what the woman could have possibly told police, asking, “Did she even say what she was calling the cops for???” A third commenter wrote, “we as Black people have been saying this for years, but nobody listens to us…. they tone police us….”
Her account also prompted questions about whether race played a role in how she was perceived, a concern that has surfaced in other cases where a person’s race was mistakenly logged in an official system. For now, the creator has not said whether she plans to pursue the matter further, and no additional details about the woman who called police have surfaced.
Published: Aug 21, 2026 07:32 am