Posted on Jun 16, 2020
CEO caught on video confronting neighbor over Black Lives Matter message
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A Bay Area-based cosmetics CEO is the latest executive to face public backlash after a viral video showed her harassing a neighbor of color.
Lisa Alexander, the CEO of a cosmetics brand apologized late Sunday after a viral video showed her berating a neighbor in San Francisco after assuming him to be trespassing.
Alexander, along with her husband, could be seen threatening to call police on James Juanillo, who is Filipino, as he stenciled “Black Lives Matter” with chalk in front of his own home.
“There are not enough words to describe how truly sorry I am for being disrespectful last Tuesday when I made the decision to question him about what he was doing in front of his home,“ Alexander said in a statement. “I should have minded my own business.”
In the video, which was first shared on Tuesday and had since been retweeted nearly 200,000 times, the couple asks him whether Juanillo lives in the house before asserting that they know he doesn’t and is breaking the law.
Lisa Alexander, the CEO of a cosmetics brand apologized late Sunday after a viral video showed her berating a neighbor in San Francisco after assuming him to be trespassing.
Alexander, along with her husband, could be seen threatening to call police on James Juanillo, who is Filipino, as he stenciled “Black Lives Matter” with chalk in front of his own home.
“There are not enough words to describe how truly sorry I am for being disrespectful last Tuesday when I made the decision to question him about what he was doing in front of his home,“ Alexander said in a statement. “I should have minded my own business.”
In the video, which was first shared on Tuesday and had since been retweeted nearly 200,000 times, the couple asks him whether Juanillo lives in the house before asserting that they know he doesn’t and is breaking the law.
CEO caught on video confronting neighbor over Black Lives Matter message
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She nailed it - most likely inadvertently - when she said she should have "minded her own business". Now it would seem that she will have not much business to mind.
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I watched the video and don’t understand how this is racist. Can someone please explain? Looking for a real explanation, not just being told this is “White privilege”.
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