Corey Lewis : Black Man Babysitting White Kids Has Cops Called On Him

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Corey Lewis noticed the woman for the first time when she crossed the Wal-Mart parking lot in Marietta, Georgia, on a Sunday afternoon. She was sitting in a Kia sedan, he said, leading the two children back to his car.

At the time he made them stick to him and were ready to go, he took out his phone and was streaming straight on Facebook while telling a story about how strange women began to track them down after refusing to let her talk to children. Mr. Lewis, 27, said in an interview.

He followed him from the parking lot to the gas station across the street and to his house where Mr. Lewis, a black man, was interrogated by a Kobe County police officer about why he had two young children, white.

"I did not know what was going on and what you wanted to do," Lewis said Tuesday, considering that the woman had called the police because he was a black man walking around with two white children. "I felt that my personality was criminalizing."

Sgt. Wayne Dilke confirmed the incident, saying one of the officers had responded to a call from a woman on Sunday afternoon. Police did not say whether she knew her identity.

Lewis recorded the videos on Facebook, the incident that began at the Wal-Mart parking lot and ended with the last copy of a black person being reported to the police during legal activity, such as golf, sneezing, shopping or even counting.

For Mr. Lewis, the episode was particularly disturbing because it happened during his work. Mr. Lewis has his own work, "Inspired By Lewis," where he takes care of children five days a week as part of the youth orientation program he created three years ago. He said his agents were mainly white, but until Sunday, he never thought that would give anyone a reason to call the police.

He said he spent the evening watching Nicholas, aged 6, and Edison, aged 10, while their parents were out. After taking them to the indoor play area, he took them to Wal-Mart to eat on the subway, he said.

After leaving the store, he and the children were walking with his car when the woman pulled out and asked if the children were doing well. Mr. Lewis said, confused, "Why were not they OK?". She ignored it before taking off, she said, only to return to the request to speak to Addison. Mr. Lewis said he had told her, and insisted on getting his license plate number before she ran away, just to stop at sight.

Mr. Lewis said he drove to a nearby gas station, where he followed. Instead of taking the children home, he led them home, where he knew people would be abroad.

Mr. Lewis continued recording as a police car approached, and the officer asked him what was going on. "I'm a stalker," he says. "I've heard."

The confrontation ended without a case, with the officer apparently convinced that the children - who gave similar explanations - were fine, but he asked if he could check in with their parents, Lewis said.

On Tuesday, Lewis returned to work with the children, saying he would not leave this episode to prevent him from doing his work.

He said: "You see these things, but they look like from afar." "But for that to happen to you, it's unbelievable."