Woman Who Called Cops on Black Babysitter Told 911 Dispatcher She Had ‘Funny Feeling’

The woman who called the police on a black man taking care of two white children told the 911 operator she had a “funny feeling,” NBC News reports. Corey Lewis, 27, told local news outlets that a white woman confronted him in a parking lot, followed him to his home, and called the police while he was babysitting two white children for a family friend. “I see this black gentlemen with these two little white kids and, so I just had a funny feeling,” the woman told the operator, according to audio obtained by NBC News. She asked the operator if she should follow Lewis and the children, and the officer advised her not to. According to Lewis’ Facebook Live broadcast of the ordeal, the woman ended up following him and the children in her car. She told the operator that she would like “somebody to come up and look at this guy to make sure that he knows these kids.” “If I didn’t do this, I would be up all night,” she told the operator. “If I’m wrong that’s great, I’m thrilled, but if I’m not, you know, these kids are OK.” Police approached Lewis at his home, and the children were asked if they knew him. The parents of the children, David Parker and Dana Mango, were also called. Parker has said that Lewis got stopped “for B-W-B, which I guess is the new thing, babysitting while black.”