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A video went viral after a scene featuring a white woman outside a grocery store in New York, saying a young boy had seized her from behind. Once the incident was accused of racism, images of security revealed the truth about what really happened.
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A video shot by Jason Littlejohn on Wednesday in Brooklyn shows a woman claiming to have called 911. This woman speaks on the phone, claiming that a young, black boy was groping her in a deli. She subsequently apologized after security images revealed that the child had accidentally passed through the store.(Photo courtesy of Jason Littlejohn)

A woman, claiming to have been petted by a young boy in a deli in Brooklyn, New York, appeared to have called 911 in a racially charged viral video captured Wednesday night. The woman later apologized after being confronted with security footage showing that the boy had accidentally touched her.

A video of the incident was viewed more than 5 million times and outraged viewers nicknamed the wife "Cornerstore Caroline". The latest in a series of nicknames designed to shame people involved in alleged incidents of racial profiling.

The video shows young children crying when the woman speaks on the phone: "I have just been sexually assaulted by a child," she said in a video captured by Jason Littlejohn, who lives near the market.

Although the woman – identified by PIX 11 as Teresa Klein – claims to be on the phone with 911, no police respond immediately to the call. In the video and in a subsequent interview with the station, she alleges that the mother of the children aggravated the situation. Klein said that the boy had grabbed her buttocks.

Many, including Klein herself, have noted the emergence of racial profiling: "I understand the white lady who calls … the cops against a black lady," she says to an increasingly hostile crowd who is Gather around her while she is talking on the phone. supposedly to a 911 operator.

October 9th: Police officers called a black man while he was looking after white children, according to a report

According to the New York Times, Klein denied any racial motivation for the charge or the so-called 911 call.

On Friday, Klein was confronted with his neighbors and the grocery media. She watched the video surveillance of the incident as the crowd mocked.

When asked what she had seen on the video, Klein replied, "The child accidentally (brushed me) … Young man, I do not know your name, but I'm sorry. "

Littlejohn, who captured the video, said that he was haunted by the memory of the crying child: "I was really disgusted by the situation," he told USA TODAY friday. He said the boy was crying with tears of fear and pain, and that Klein "did not care".

Klein, not the mother, has escalated the situation, said Littlejohn. While the two women were screaming, he said that the mother had defended her child.

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