ROCHESTER, Minn. — In the days after a social media video went viral showing a white woman yelling racial slurs at a Rochester park, local law enforcement and leaders of Rochester’s Black community struggled to identify the Black family whose 5-year-old son was the target of the racial epithets.
There were three separate sources claiming to be the victims at Soldiers Memorial Field Park where the incident occurred, according to authorities. Late last week, Rochester police concluded that the third’s claims were credible. Those made by the first two were fraudulent, a Black leader told the Rochester Post Bulletin.
Last Thursday, the family of the 5-year-old boy believed to be the actual victims of the racial slur contacted representatives of the Rochester branch of the NAACP. The Rochester branch leadership advised the family to go to the police.
“(Police) confirmed with us that (they are) 100% confident that this is the right family,” said Wale Elegbede, president of the NAACP’s Rochester branch.
More than a week after the racial slur incident appeared on social media the identity of the family wasn’t known. It also happened during a time when different individuals claimed to speak for the family.
For a time, Rochester’s NAACP leaders believed the claims of the first two. During a town hall meeting aimed at addressing racism earlier this month, Elegbede read a statement that came from the first group claiming to be the family.
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