Congratulations, Jonathan Pentland. Now You’re Famous.
There’s a video going viral documenting an incident in Columbia, South Carolina.
A white man by the name of Jonathan Pentland and his wife are seen harassing a young black man, and Pentland shoves him at one point. Pentland aggressively questions the black man, named Deandre, about why he is in the neighborhood, what he’s doing, and where he lives. His wife encourages him. A third white woman is seen on the phone, and it appears as though she is calling the police.
The video is currently going viral after being posted by a user on Twitter who goes by the moniker “Angry Staffer.” He boasts over 380,000 Twitter followers (as of writing this), and his bio states that he is “not a current WH staffer.” The user behind the account called Pentland a “super douche” and asked for more information regarding the individual before “blasting it all over social media”:
One of the first things I noticed about this particular viral racist encounter is that I thought at first that it involved an adult and a “child.” My reaction to the clip was that I was…
