‘I don’t feel safe with you driving around my neighborhood’: White man ‘follows black woman, 21, for TWO MILES’ demanding to know what she was doing there

• Julia Santos, 21, of Groveland, Massachusetts filmed the moment she confronted a white man who had allegedly followed her in his car for two miles on Monday
• The white man, driving a BMW convertible, asked her: ‘What are you driving up Juniper Terrace for?’ 
• Santos explained she was picking up free dog food from a person in the area
• She asked him if he was following her because she is black 
• When Santos said she didn’t feel safe near him he replied: ‘You don’t feel safe? I don’t feel safe with you driving around my neighborhood’ 
• The man finally left her alone when a woman nearby intervened 
• Cops say they’re investigating and have interviewed the man in the clip

A young black Massachusetts woman filmed the moment a white man allegedly followed her in his car and demanded to know what she was doing in his neighborhood, saying he felt ‘unsafe’. 

Julia Santos, 21, was on her way home on Monday after she picked up free dog food from a local who posted about it in a neighborhood Facebook group in Groveland.

She said as she drove home she passed through Juniper Terrace and realized a man was following her for several streets in his car. 

Disturbed by being tailed for two miles, Santos turned onto a side street to escape the man, where he pulled up next to her and confronted her.   

‘So what are you driving up Juniper Terrace for?’ the white man is seen saying in the video, wearing a white T-shirt and sunglasses. 

Black woman Julia Santos, 21, of Groveland, Massachusetts filmed the moment she confronted a white man (above) who allegedly followed her in his car for two miles on Monday before asking what she was doing in his neighborhood. He told her ‘I don’t feel safe with you driving around my neighborhood’

She had been picking up free dog food from a local who posted about it on Facebook when she was tailed by the man. She shared the video on Twitter where it has gone viral 

Santos said she’s lived in Groveland all her life and was shocked that the man insisted on knowing why she was in that specific neighborhood. Santos pictured on social media

‘Actually. If you’re concerned if you want to look on the Town Crier (a Facebook Group) someone offered a bag of dog food, which I have in the back of my vehicle,’ Santos replied, her voice shaking.

‘Where? Juniper Terrace is a very small street, you didn’t stop,’ the man replies, trying to seem friendly.

‘I did. I stopped, I grabbed the dog food that is right there and then I left and saw you follow me all the way here and I turned right here because quite frankly, I don’t feel safe right now,’ Santos replied.  

‘You don’t feel safe? I don’t feel safe with you driving around my neighborhood,’ the man quipped back.

Santos challenged the man, asking if he followed her because she’s black.  

‘I don’t know what color you are… what color are you?’ the white man replied. 

‘I’m black and that’s why you’re following me?’ Santos said.

Police have opened a criminal investigation into the incident and Groveland Police Chief Jeffrey Gillen said the clip ‘deeply disturbed’ him. Police said they have identified and spoken with the man in the video, but did not release his name

‘That’s good, you’re black, congratulations!’ the man replied. 

Another woman’s voice is then heard in the background saying, ‘What are you doing? I don’t like the fact that this poor girl is being harassed’ and the man backs up in his BMW convertible. 

‘I just got Karen’d? This man followed me home because I went to pick up DOG FOOD at somebody’s house! He followed me all the way to my house so I turned on a side street and he said he felt “unsafe,”‘ Santos posted on Twitter, where the clip racked up over 193,000 views and nearly 3,000 retweets.

Santos said she’s lived in Groveland all her life and was shocked that the man insisted on knowing why she was in that specific neighborhood. 

‘Think i’ll just go cry and try to emotionally process today lol,’ Santos tweeted after posting the video of the incident

This Twitter user said on the disturbing video: ‘Reminder that “Karens” come in all shapes and sizes

‘Think i’ll just go cry and try to emotionally process today lol,’ she tweeted after posting the video of the incident. 

Police have opened a criminal investigation into the incident and Groveland Police Chief Jeffrey Gillen said the clip ‘deeply disturbed’ him. 

Police said they have identified and spoken with the man in the video, but did not release his name. 

‘This is a good example to show this stuff is really happening,’ Adriana Santos, Julia’s sister said to the Boston Globe.

‘It was definitely shocking to watch, especially knowing my sister so well. I could definitely hear in her voice how shook up she was,’ Adriana added.

Twitter users voiced their fury over the video where Santos was seemingly targeted on account of her skin color, with some dubbing the man in the video a ‘Chad’. 

‘Reminder that “Karens” come in all shapes and sizes,’ one Twitter user wrote.

‘This Chad is following and harassing a black girl who was afraid to drive home. She stopped and filmed. The video ends when someone comes to her aide. This Chad looks more like a Karen, dontcha think?  if you toss me his address, I’ll get his name so his boss knows,’ another Twitter user added.

‘This is literally one of my nightmares as a woman but add being black that’s 100 times more scary…’ another social media user said. 

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