A black man who was confronted and asked to leave the pool at the apartment building where he lives in a viral video says he was the victim of racial profiling. Indiana resident Shayne Holland used his cellphone to record a confrontation between himself and a security guard who was an off-duty Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer last Friday. ADVERTISEMENT The incident happened when he was sitting at the pool at the River Crossing Apartments, where he has lived since February 2017, according to the Indianapolis Star. "I had my headphones when she approached me so I didn't hear her the first time. When I asked her to repeat herself, she asked if I lived in the neighborhood. I said yes," Holland told the Star. "When she asked where I lived, I said I don't know you and you haven't identified yourself, so I'm not just going to give you my address." The man said he presented the officer, whose name was not immediately available, with a key he was issued from the apartment complex that allows him access to the pool. The officer then contacted the complex’s property manager to confirm Holland was a resident, which the manager did confirm. But the situation continued to escalate in the video posted on Twitter. The officer, who is wearing a badge, continues to press Holland in the video. He repeatedly says he is uncomfortable giving the officer his address. "Why do I need to give this lady, who I don't know, my address?" Holland asks in the video, while noting that he paid $1,600 in rent for the following month. Holland was then told to leave the pool by the officer. "Why do I have to leave my pool?" he asked. The manager said in response that the man was being told to leave because he refused to answer the officer, who was working as security while off-duty as a police officer, according to the Star. Alex Stokely, the vice president of Barrett & Stokely, which manages the apartment complex, told the local publication that the manager has since been placed on leave. The company also added that they are currently investigating the situation. The security officer was reportedly at the pool because of previous incidents involving nonresidents using the pool, according to the Star. I actually live here, so I’m assuming they told the police that it’s not too many black people that do so if you see one make sure you get their address. RiverCrossing Apartments. pic.twitter.com/IgOx3DByUi — Quick (@HollywoodShayne) July 6, 2018 The viral video is the latest in a series of widely publicized similar incidents captured on video. Two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks earlier this year while sitting in the cafe without ordering anything. Another viral video from June showed a white woman, dubbed by social media users as “Permit Patty,” calling 911 on a black girl selling bottled water in San Francisco. Several other incidents have involved confrontations at community pools.<doc-sep>Shayne Holland Screenshot : WRT-TV It’s officially the summer, so you know what that means: the beginning of cop-calling season. Advertisement I know they have been calling the cops all year, but those white-people workouts were actually just tattletale training camps and off-season snitching sessions. Now that black people will start swimming and holding barbecues, the real games begin. In the latest edition of “black people can’t do shit without white people calling the police on them,”(which would be a hit on Fox News) an Indianapolis man claims that he was singled out and confronted by #SwimmingSheriffSusie, an off-duty police officer who, along with the property manager, asked the man to leave. I know. I know. The caucasity -audacity is rampant in these two. According to WRTV-TV, Shay ne Holland was chilling at the River Crossing Apartments pool when he was approached by the woman who was taking her job of patrolling the pool to ensure that black men weren’t contaminating the water with blackness way too seriously. “She didn’t introduce herself, she didn’t say hello,” Holland told the news station. “She says, ‘Do you live here?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, I live here, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t live here.’” That didn’t stop #SwimmingSheriffSusie, whom Holland would later learn was an off-duty police officer, from harassing him. Holland claims that the woman wanted to know where he lives. Advertisement “I’m like, ‘I live over there, but if you’re asking me for my address, I mean, I don’t feel comfortable giving you my entire address without knowing who you are,’” Holland said. Raw Story notes that “Holland showed the woman his key fob, which he used to enter the pool area and she grabbed it from his hand.” Advertisement I know that at this point you think #SwimmingSheriffSusie is diving off the deep end, but you’d be wrong. Apparently, there’s been a rash of black men in Indianapolis creating pool key cards that they then use to steal pool time and white people’s sunshine. The property manager reportedly walked onto the scene and, while she didn’t recognize Holland, she clearly recognized #SwimmingSheriffSusie and decided to team up with the off-duty cop-turned-safety-patrol officer to ask Holland to leave. Advertisement “Honestly, I don’t want to jump to racism,” Holland said. “I don’t want to say she just pointed me out because I’m the only black dude in the pool, but that was the case.” Ummm ... I think Holland might be on to something here. Holland merely wants an apology from both #SwimmingSheriffSusie and the apartment manager. I also want Holland to accept this apology in the form of a lawsuit and cash. Advertisement “If you need to have somebody make sure that it’s safe and make sure that there are not too many people that don’t live at the pool, I don’t mind that,” he said. “Just let me know that. I don’t think that they did that and I think that could have solved it.” In all fairness, I understand why white people are so protective of their water. When I was in my late teens, I was jumped into a swimming-pool gang that terrorized the entire mid-Atlantic region by breaking into pools in white neighborhoods and abducting white people’s joy. You probably heard of the D.C. Sniper and the Subway Flasher, but you probably don’t know about the D.C. Splasher. Advertisement That was me. Thank God there are heroes like #SwimmingSheriffSusie who have dedicated themselves to never letting this happen again.<doc-sep>INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana -- Video of a black man being singled out for interrogation at an Indianapolis apartment swimming pool has gone viral.It's the latest video in the past several weeks of black people being questioned about whether or not they belong at a swimming pool.In this latest incident, 23-year-old Shayne Holland is being questioned by a female police officer at the River Crossing at Keystone Apartments while sitting on a pool lounger.He said his property manager, who he knows well, was called over to discuss the problem but he was still asked to leave the pool area.He recorded the incident and shared it on his Twitter page.Holland, who shows his apartment key to the officer and manager, is heard asking, "Why do I have to leave my pool? "The company that manages the apartments told the Indianapolis Star newspaper that the apartment manager has been put on leave in the wake of the video.<doc-sep>A white manager of an Indianapolis apartment complex has been put on administrative leave after she asked a black resident who was by the complex’s pool to leave the area. Widely shared video footage of the encounter, posted on Twitter on July 6, shows a white woman, identified on camera as an off-duty police officer working as security, standing over the man while he is near the pool at the River Crossing at Keystone apartment complex. In response to a query, the man, Shayne Holland, 23, shows the officer his key to indicate that he lives at the complex, and that he can be at the pool. The officer reiterates that she has asked him for his address. She is then joined by a white apartment manager, who confirms in the video that Mr. Holland is a resident. But the situation escalates further. “You didn’t answer her question,” the manager, referring to the off-duty officer, can be heard telling Mr. Holland.<doc-sep>
A black man claims he was racially profiled after he was confronted by an off-duty police officer and asked to leave his apartment complex pool. Shayne Holland, a resident at River Crossing Apartments in Indianapolis told WRTV on Wednesday that he was sitting by the apartment complex pool on Friday when he was approached by an off-duty police officer. Holland, who is black, told the news station the female officer demanded to know where he lived and then asked him to leave. "She didn't introduce herself, she didn't say hello," said Holland. "She says, 'Do you live here?' I'm like: 'Yes, I live here; I wouldn't be here if I didn't live here.'" Holland told the IndyStar that when the officer first approached him, he had his headphones in his ears and did not hear her. "I had my headphones when she approached me so I didn't hear her the first time. When I asked her to repeat herself, she asked if I lived in the neighborhood. I said yes," Holland said. "When she asked where I lived, I said I don't know you and you haven't identified yourself, so I'm not just going to give you my address." Holland told WRTV that he showed the off-duty officer his key fob he used to get in the pool. The female officer then grabbed the key out of his hand, according to Holland. Holland was able to record the confrontation on his cellphone and posted the video on Twitter, which already has over 29,000 views. In the video, Holland tells the apartment manager and the unidentified female police officer that he pays $1,600 in rent at the complex. "Why do I need to give this lady, who I don't know, my address?" Holland asks in the video. The apartment manager can be heard responding to Holland and said he was being asked to leave because he did not answer the officer's question. Holland told WRTV that he did not want to jump to conclusions, but he was the only one asked by the police officer to provide proof that he lived at the apartment complex. "Honestly, I don't want to jump to racism," Holland told the news station. "I don't want to say she just pointed me out because I'm the only black dude in the pool, but that was the case." The unidentified officer reportedly works for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, according to the IndyStar. Newsweek has reached out to Holland and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department but did not hear back in time for publication. Alex Stokely, the vice president of Barrett and Stokely, which manages the River Crossing apartment complex, told the IndyStar that the manager in the video has been placed on leave and they are currently investigating the incident. Stokely also told the publication the officer was at the complex because there were people using the pool who did not live at the complex in the past few days. "The police there were to ask everybody there the same question as far as confirming that they did in fact live there or were guests of someone who lived there," Stokley told the publication. The new incident comes just a week after a woman called the police on a black man who was wearing socks at a community pool. The woman, who was the property manager at the pool, told police the man had to take his socks off if he wanted to put his feet in the water on July 4. She has been fired from her job because of the incident, USA Today reported.