He thought that his path was a bright one, living up to the good values his father and mother taught him. “I didn’t think I’d have to experience this outside of the South,” Barnes said. Aaron took up the codename Invincible as a tribute to what his father used to call him. White people called the cops on him a number of times when he was walking or running through certain neighborhoods, he said, an experience that always made him fearful of possible police interactions. No official report was taken, according to Birkbeck.īarnes and his partner moved to Seattle from Texas, where he said he was frequently racially profiled. “I was wearing a hoodie because it’s cold that morning, a black hoodie, and she thought I shouldn’t be there, I was stealing from the house,” he said.Īrriving deputies checked Barnes’ identification and left after about five minutes. In the video, Barnes’ partner can be heard accusing the woman of calling the cops because “she saw a Black man walk in the house.” The woman can be heard responding, “Oh my gosh this has nothing to do with race.”īarnes, however, said “It was obviously a race thing.” “Dispatch advised responding deputies that the caller said that it was a misunderstanding however now a verbal disturbance had ensued,” Birkbeck said. Shortly after, King County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived to respond “to reports of a potential residential burglary,” spokesperson Zoe Birkbeck told the newspaper. “I did get the sense of her trying to save face for herself and brush it under the rug.” “I’m a Black man, and me being out there alone and for me to go inside to get my white boyfriend, she felt she was in the wrong I guess and that there was a misunderstanding,” Barnes said Friday. Barnes said the woman’s demeanor changed when she saw his partner, who is white. The woman told him he shouldn’t be at the property, and called 911, he said.īarnes then went into the house to retrieve his phone to film the interaction, and to tell his partner about the dispute, he said. Barnes and his partner had moved into the home about three weeks ago, and said other neighbors noticed their U-Haul truck.īarnes said he and the woman waved to each other, “as a normal neighbor would,” but she came back and parked in front of the house.īarnes said that when he approached her to ask if she needed something, the woman said she knew who lived in the home and accused him of not being a resident there. Wednesday, Barnes said a woman he recognized from down the street drove by his house as he was standing in the backyard.
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