A Brooklyn state senator says a woman called 911 on him while he was campaigning on a street corner in Crown Heights for “dividing people” by handing out literature critical of President Trump.
State Sen. Jesse Hamilton (D-Brooklyn) says he was handing out campaign palm cards with the slogan “Fighting back Trump” on Empire Boulevard and Flatbush Avenue Thursday morning when a woman — who said in the video that she was a backer of the President — became “belligerent” over his opposition to Trump.
“She said, ‘You should not stand here.’ She said, ‘You are dividing people,’” Hamilton told The Post.
A campaign staffer caught some of the interaction on video.
“If he really wants nation be as one and fight for the better life and live the better life you would not put this slogan here,” the woman can be heard saying in broken English.
The video ends with the woman walking away.
But moments later, around 8 a.m., she called 911 to complain that Hamilton was against Trump’s immigration policy, law enforcement sources confirmed. That call was not caught on video.
Cops showed up and explained to her that Hamilton wasn’t breaking any laws, sources said. The name of the woman was not available.
Hamilton, who is black, compared the interaction to recent stories of people calling the cops on people of color who are not doing anything wrong.
“The pattern of targeting Black men and women for being Black and alive in the communities we all share has to stop,” Hamilton wrote in a Facebook post Thursday.
Additional reporting by Carl Campanile
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