Woman in tank top and leggings walks through Jackson neighborhood. Then an older woman pulled over with a strange warning: ‘911 is being called’
Walking through a neighborhood in workout clothes should not attract much attention. But for some people, simply being somewhere others think they do not belong can become a problem. One father even had the police called on him while relaxing at his apartment pool.
It can be even more confusing when nobody tells you what you supposedly did wrong. If a stranger starts taking photos of you and calls the police without explaining why, there are going to be questions about what made them suspicious in the first place.
TikTok creator Xenia Minton (@xeniaminton) claims that happened while she was taking her usual walk through a neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi. She was wearing a tank top and blue leggings when an older white woman allegedly pulled over, took photos of her, and told her police had been called. Minton believes she was racially profiled.
She had no idea what was happening
Minton begins her video by saying the experience changed the way she thinks about racism in 2026. She explains that she walks every day and had been doing nothing unusual when the encounter happened only a few hours before she posted about it.
At the time, Minton was wearing AirPods and talking to a friend on the phone. When the woman pulled over beside her, Minton initially assumed she needed directions or some other kind of help. Instead, she recalls being told, “I’m taking photos of you now. I already called the police.”
Minton claims the woman then told her, “911 is being called.” She does not recall being given a reason for the alleged call or being told what the woman thought she had done. That missing explanation became one of the biggest questions in the comments, with one viewer asking, “Did she even say what she was calling the cops for???”
The encounter allegedly caught Minton so off guard that she froze. Although friends later told her she should have photographed the woman’s license plate or recorded their conversation, Minton explains that she did not think to do either in the moment. She had expected an ordinary walk, not an interaction that would leave her trying to work out why police had supposedly been contacted.
Afterward, Minton discussed what happened with friends, who told her they believed she had been racially profiled. Someone also suggested the woman could have been calling immigration authorities, although Minton does not provide evidence that ICE was actually contacted. Minton, who says she was adopted from China and has lived in the United States her entire life, describes the possibility as something that had not even occurred to her during the encounter.
According to Minton, the woman eventually returned to the main road and drove away. She does not mention police arriving or contacting her afterward. That left her without an answer as to why 911 had allegedly been called in the first place.
Viewers largely focused on the unexplained police call and Minton’s safety. “People have too much time and hatred on their hands,” one person wrote. Another added, “They just can’t mind their business bro,” while a fellow Mississippian told her, “I am so sorry.”
Several Black commenters also pushed back on the idea that racial profiling might seem surprising in 2026. “We as Black people have been saying this for years,” one viewer wrote. Another commented, “sorry that happened to you but we black Americans been dealing with it our whole lives.”
Minton was still left with one major question: what had made the woman suspicious of her in the first place? She had only been walking through the neighborhood, yet found herself questioning whether she had been singled out because of her race. The woman allegedly gave her no explanation.
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