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A neighborhood dispute about dogs in Discovery Bay took a racist turn on Monday, when a white woman approached a Black man and told him, “You’re a Black person in a white neighborhood — and you’re acting like one.”
“Why don’t you act like a white person in a white neighborhood?” Adana Dean asked Gerritt Jones, according to videos that Jones’ sister, Jariell, posted on Twitter. The videos included security footage from the Jones’ home and cell phone footage taken by Jariell Jones.
Jariell Jones said the interaction was surprising — but not entirely unexpected.
“Being Black in America, we see these things so much,” she said. “We were kind of expecting something like this to happen soon.”
Jones said Dean initially approached her nephew and the family’s 2-year-old pit bull, Dice, asking to pet the dog. She told Dice he was a good boy and eventually left.
But five minutes later, she appeared again.
In the videos, Dean was seen holding her poodle in one hand and what appeared to be a dog-training device in the other at the doorstep of the Jones’ home. She said the family’s pit full attacked her dog, which does not appear to be injured in the video. Jones said to another family member in the video that he thought Dean had arrived with a Taser shock weapon.
“We were raised around Black people — most of them were very nice,” Dean told Jones in one of the videos.
Jones asked Dean to leave his property: “I don’t know if you’re just having a bad day or whatever, but today ain’t the day.”
Other family members walked outside as Dean continued telling the Jones family that they were “acting like Black people.” She also told them that she had a “top-secret clearance.”
Dean eventually left the property, but not before threatening the Jones family with legal action.
Reached by phone Tuesday, Dean reiterated the threat of legal action and said that she only approached Gerritt Jones to ask whether his dog had a rabies shot — though in the videos, she accused the dog of attacking her poodle.
“The reason I went to them was because there was a dog in the street with a little boy — a little Black boy — so I knew whose it was,” Dean said. She said that two months ago, she was bitten by a different dog. She said she thought pit bulls could be dangerous, so she wanted to ask Jones whether the dog’s shots were up-to-date.
After The Chronicle played sound from the video for Dean, she denied saying anything racist and accused the Joneses of doctoring the video.
“I am almost 80 years old,” Dean said. “I have worked most of my life. … There’s no racial discrimination here — absolutely none. I am completely aghast at what’s going on here.”
Dean told The Chronicle that one of her best friends is Black. She also denied that she was holding a stun gun, and said she was carrying a device that uses a bright light to chase aggressive dogs away.
Dean’s husband, Peter Dean, also said that his wife was not racist, but said that he and his wife both have memory problems.
Peter Dean alternated between saying that the video was manipulated and that it was not. He acknowledged it would take a lot of effort to doctor the video’s audio, but said, “I find it hard not to say that someone’s dreaming something up here.”
Jimmy Lee, a spokesperson for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, said deputies responded to the home Monday and contacted both families.
“The Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff takes these types of acts seriously,” Lee said. “… Although Deputies determined that no crime had been committed, a report was taken to document the interaction between the two neighbors, as the original complaint was in reference to a neighbor dispute due to an off-leash dog.”
The case will be referred to animal control, Lee said.
Asked to comment about Dean’s allegations that the video was manipulated, Jariell Jones called her “delusional.”
“She’s obviously lying, and it’s sad to see that she continues to lie, even after she’s been caught,” Jones said.
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I love when they neighborhood watch, cop and lawyer and majority of them broads suck and Fuk they way into the lifestyle they live
but may other people can deal with living with white people
can never just mind their fukking business...
