The victim of a viral Karen meltdown finally shared his story, and it’s even uglier than it seemed. Turns out the whole thing was a simple misunderstanding but you know, Karens absolutely have to take it there.
Last night on Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson’s “Nightcap” podcast, real estate developer DaMichael Jenkins and his wife explained how they were racially profiled by a white woman in their neighborhood.
Jenkins said on the podcast he saw the woman walking with her two kids as he was driving home. The woman then turned into a driveway—which happened to be part of Jenkins’ home. When he pulled in, the woman ran toward his front door and began ringing the doorbell, he said.
In the video clip taken from the home’s Ring camera, the woman is seen asking Jenkins if he lived at the home, to which he replied in the affirmative.
“I don’t believe that,” the woman replied.
“Are you looking for somebody?” Jenkins asked.
What happened next left both parties in fear of their lives. The woman suddenly abandoned her stroller and took her two kids to run in the opposite direction. In the video, she can be heard screaming, “Help! Help!” At that point, Jenkins said on the podcast that he was worried the woman would call 911 and went through the garage to enter his home to tell his wife what happened.
In the video, Jenkins’ wife stepped out from the front door and asked if someone was there. From across the street, a white man responded, confirming that it was his wife who was the one yelling for help and alleged someone was chasing her, per the video.
The two couples then came face to face to discuss what happened and came to the conclusion that it was all a misunderstanding. The woman in question apologized and explained she was afraid for her life and pretended to be “going home” by walking toward the house, not realizing it belonged to who she was running from.
However, Jenkins’ wife posed a fair question: “How did he scare you, though?”
“Well, you just have to understand my point of view. I was by myself with two kids and I saw a car coming and it scared me so I just pulled up here and I kept thinking, ‘This could be his house,’” the woman said.
She then tried to say Jenkins never told her it was his house which… he did. It’s fair to assume the internet tracked her down once the video of the incident was released. The woman, later identified as Michelle Bishop, said on social media she was dragged from her personal Instagram to her neighborhood Facebook group.
In a series of white-woman-tears filled videos, she tried to explain herself, denounce any claims of being racist and even went as far to claim that she didn’t think Jenkins was a Black man because she believed a white man lived in the home.
“There was never racial intent. Ever. What I will apologize for is - sorry for sharing the story of me being scared. I could absolutely be slower to speak,” Bishop said, choked up on tears that never fell from her eyes.
Eventually, the police got involved after Jenkins and his wife made a report. However, it’s unclear any developments came of it.