A video of a Black mother recording a white woman blocking her car from leaving a grocery store parking lot in Michigan is making its rounds on the internet, Fox 2 Detroit reported.

Shaneeka Montgomery-Strickland said a white woman with her daughter in tow stood behind her car and refused to let her leave a Kroger grocery store in Livonia, Michigan, on June 13.

Montgomery-Strickland said the incident originated inside of the store when her son stepped up on a shelf to grab a Gatorade before the white woman became upset and started yelling.

"She said, 'Oh my god, they went up to get they Gatorade and I'm trying to shop here.' It was irateness," she said.

"I told her please don't yell at them and then she started yelling at me. And I said, 'You don't have to yell at me, they got the Gatorade.' And a lot of people where, if you're short you're going to go up there and grab what you need. There's not a lot of workers in the aisle, you have to do what you have to do and you move on," Montgomery-Strickland said. 

After both women left the store, Montgomery-Strickland said she was confronted by the woman and was called a "b***h."


"I have a woman standing behind my car telling me I cannot leave. This is ridiculous," she said in the video. "I'm out here trying to do my job, me and my kids — do you see this lady? Standing here behind my car refusing to leave." 

As the two women went back and forth, Montgomery-Strickland said the store's security officers stood outside "doing nothing."

The mother of three said she threatened to call the police, but the woman remained in place as law enforcement arrived on the scene.

"I said 'Ma'am can you please move from behind my car,' she told me 'No I'm not going anywhere,'" she recalled of the situation. 

The white woman hurried over to officers and was seen pointing in the direction of Montgomery-Strickland, telling them she was upset that she was being recorded.

According to Yahoo, an officer can be heard in the background saying "there's no law that been broken though," although it was unclear if they were referring to the white woman or Montgomery-Strickland.

In a separate video, Montgomery-Strickland sat in her car and shared her frustration with the situation that played out in front of her children. 


She said the situation was "the craziest thing [she'd] ever experienced."

"I don't like how she talked to me, I don't like how she talked to my kids. And I refuse to shop in a place of business and have somebody act like that," she said in the second video. "I hate that the kids had to see that, but now they see. They were, like, 'that lady is racist' and I say 'yeah, she is,' because there was no cause for it. … She basically attacked us without putting her hands on us."

She told Fox 2 that it was important to record the incident because we can't "keep on letting people get away with nonsense."

"I've gotten a lot of responses. People are very angry and upset about it because they say it makes no sense. What is wrong with people? Why are they still out here doing this after all that's going on, all the changes we're trying to make? After Black Lives Matter? It makes no sense."