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A Black woman in Santa Monica, California published a shocking story on The Washington Post‘s website this morning. Fay Wells tells a story of locking herself out of her apartment, calling a locksmith to open the door and later being confronted by 19 police officers with guns drawn after a neighbor suspected her of being a burglar.

Nineteen police officers. One Black woman who stands 5’7″ who was wearing socks, shorts and a jacket.

Luckily, Wells, a former Duke University student who holds and MBA from Dartmouth, wasn’t injured. She was only terrified and humiliated but, thankfully not shot.

An exerpt from the article reads: Later, I learned that the Santa Monica Police Department had dispatched 19 officers after one of my neighbors reported a burglary at my apartment. It didn’t matter that I told the cops I’d lived there for seven months, told them about the locksmith, offered to show a receipt for his services and my ID. It didn’t matter that I went to Duke, that I have an MBA from Dartmouth, that I’m a vice president of strategy at a multinational corporation. It didn’t matter that I’ve never had so much as a speeding ticket. It didn’t matter that I calmly, continually asked them what was happening. It also didn’t matter that I didn’t match the description of the person they were looking for — my neighbor described me as Hispanic when he called 911. What mattered was that I was a woman of color trying to get into her apartment — in an almost entirely white apartment complex in a mostly white city — and a white man who lived in another building called the cops because he’d never seen me before.

The entire story can be read here.

Check out some of the (not so) shocking responses from Twitter: