Police called on the black man in San Francisco to "break in". his own affairs

A black man from San Francisco said he was questioned by police last week after a neighbor accused him of "breaking through" his own high-end lemonade stand

Viktor Stevenson Had tested his security system Thursday at Gourmonade, which he had opened five days earlier, when four police officers approached him, he told NBC Bay Area.

"I say," Oh, was the security system triggered? If that's the case, my apologies. I'm on the phone with the company now, "Stevenson told the press office. It was then that the police told him that a neighbor had denounced him for "having entered" the stand, he said.

The cops asked to see his hands in his pockets and told him to prove that it was his shop. I said. When he showed them the key to his store, they asked to see his identity card, according to Stevenson.

"Being black in my business at the thought of my business and someone called the police and told me that I was breaking into" Facebook post on Thursday. "People are dying because of this misuse of police resources and racial profiling every day."

This is not the first time Stevenson feels threatened to be a black entrepreneur, he told AJ +. Someone wrote "Monkey Juice" on the side of his store a few months ago, while he was still setting up the company, he says [19659002] "This is not something new for me. and as a husband, "said Stevenson visibly moved to AJ +. "And I do not think my family or any other family should go through there for no reason."

Neither Stevenson nor a representative of the San Francisco Police Department immediately responded to requests comments.

Stevenson's meeting with police last week marks another incident in recent months in which a black man was unjustly reported to the police for participating in a harmless activity

. a safety inspection in Oakland, California. In May, a white woman, also in Oakland, called the cops on a black family barbequing.

Such incidents sparked a heated debate about racism in the United States and the potential danger faced by people of color when they are unfairly reported to the police, since the police's interactions with blacks in particular are disproportionately likely to end with excessive force or death.