Black woman sits on her porch at night. Then her white neighbor allegedly makes an alarming threat: ‘Another Susan Lorincz’
The neighbor made a reference to someone with a manslaughter conviction.
Disputes between neighbors are, rather surprisingly, quite common. These squabbles can range from petty acts of revenge, like repeatedly blasting Rebecca Black’s Friday at 3am, to situations that escalate and require police intervention. For one woman, a night of sitting on her porch allegedly resulted in a white neighbor making an alarming threat.
The incident was shared by @datgurlretta in a TikTok video that has garnered over 110,300 views. “White neighbor tells black neighbor ‘Its gonna be another Susan Lorincz,’” datgurlretta wrote in an on-screen caption. According to the video, datgurlretta was sitting on her porch when her neighbor, whom she claimed was white, told her to go back inside her home.
Despite the low lighting, the video captured the dispute between the two neighbors, during which the neighbor repeatedly told datgurlretta to leave her porch and allegedly threatened to call the police. “Go back in your house before I call the cops,” the neighbor said.
White neighbor allegedly references Susan Lorincz
datgurlretta, on the other hand, refused to follow the neighbor’s demands and remained on the porch, encouraging the neighbor to contact the authorities. “Go ahead and call the cops. Please do,” she said.
The argument, however, took a worrisome turn when the neighbor told datgurlretta that their situation was allegedly going to “be another Susan Lorincz” before repeating their earlier demand for datgurlretta to go back inside her house. “Okay. No, I will not go back inside my house,” datgurlretta told the neighbor.
Before the neighbor went back inside and ended the dispute, they told datgurlretta that they were free to sit on their porch whenever they wanted to—even though datgurlretta was doing that as well. “I can sit out on my front porch,” the neighbor said before datgurlretta responded, “And so can I.”
Viewers criticized the neighbor for making demands, but also took notice of the alleged threat made against datgurlretta. “The audacity it took for her to say ‘I can sit out on my front porch if I want to’ while telling you to go back in your house is crazy. And YOU should call the cops because saying it’s gonna be another Susan Lorincz is a threat,” one commenter wrote. A second viewer chimed in, saying, “Does she not know where Susan is right now?”
Susan Lorincz is the subject of Netflix’s 2025 documentary The Perfect Neighbor, a white woman who often found herself in a dispute with her neighbors and would regularly contact the police over alleged trespassing, noise complaints, and children playing in a field, per People. In 2023, Lorincz was confronted by her neighbor, a Black mom of four Ajike “AJ” Owens, after Lorincz allegedly threw a roller skate at Owens’ child.
Police allegedly found no ‘direct threat’
Despite Owens remaining outside, Lorincz reportedly grabbed a gun and fired a single shot through her front door, hitting Owens in the chest and killing her. Lorincz claimed she acted in self-defense, but was ultimately convicted of manslaughter during her August 2024 trial and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The neighbor’s reference to Lorincz as an alleged threat would put anyone on alert. Viewers urged datgurlretta to report the issue to authorities. However, datgurlretta said she called the police to report the incident, only to be told that there wasn’t anything the police could do since there was no “direct threat” made against her.
According to the Lindsay Chase Law Firm, a statement can be considered a threat if it involves violence, is intentional, and is directed at a specific person. Statements made out of sarcasm or frustration have no legal standing, and authorities would need to determine whether the person making the threat has the capability of carrying it out and whether it genuinely incited fear in the victim.
The exact reason as to why datgurlretta’s report wasn’t investigated further remains unclear, nor why the neighbor was adamant that she wanted back inside her home. Nevertheless, it would seem that neighborly arguments are unlikely to cease in the near future.
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