man arrested after berating a black woman on a busy street. Here it is. [00:00:21] For many, if you saw that clip online, that is the only information you were provided, nothing else. There's a background. Here we go. A New Jersey man has been charged, charged as of Wednesday with harassment and bias intimidation. After a video of his heated confrontation with [00:00:41] a neighbor went viral. The video originally posted Tuesday on TikTok shows a white male identified by police as Thomas Diario. repeatedly yelling at a black woman in the Mount Laurel [00:00:56] neighborhood. The confrontation quickly drew comparisons to a widely publicized 2021 incident in a neighboring development about a half mile away involving repeated racist harassment of black residents. In response, neighbors were protesting in the development on Wednesday. [00:01:16] The video posted this week shows a man repeatedly yelling at a woman, LaKeisha Spruill, telling her to get in her car while she stands nearby speaking on the phone and asking bystanders to call the police. Now even in the 15 second video, it is disturbing. You don't know much [00:01:37] background when you first see that video, but you clearly see he's the aggressor. She's terrified. She's on the phone with somebody asking whoever's in front of her, Can you please call the police? That's clear. That's clear. And it seems as if when the video starts that he may have already [00:02:00] provided some level of unwanted physical contact or unwanted physical contact was about to happen. There's more. So while the video does not show uh Dario using racial slurs toward the woman, the woman, Ms. Sproul claims that he did in fact repeatedly call her a black B word and [00:02:22] told her to get the F away from the house. Mount Laurel police said they were notified of the incident Monday and had been in contact with both of the individuals involved. So that's called an investigation, eh Spruill said the confrontation stemmed from an ongoing dispute [00:02:42] between their children. So now we get the background. Spruill's daughter and The male's two daughters have been friends since Ms. Spruill moved to the area in 2023. She said that within the [00:03:00] last year, there have been issues of bullying, according to Ms. Spruill. And the other girls called her daughter an ugly African and made comments about her appearance and race. So. [00:03:18] If the allegation that he called her a black B word is true, you would expect that his daughters would mimic his behavior. They probably don't mimic his heart the same way, but this is how [00:03:36] it develops. Children are very impressionable, especially as it relates to parent and child. Children are not always listening, but they are always learning. So after another incident. [00:03:56] Between the kids on Monday, Ms. Spruill wanted to speak with the parents about the bullying. That sounds like a responsible parent to me. Saying they had always been civil to one another and their daughters had always been close. Spruill said all she wanted to do was have a calm [00:04:18] conversation. But she said the male responded, quote, it's always you. There are many ways to be racist and utilize racist phrases without ever saying the N word and this is one of them, [00:04:35] the you people phrase. There's more. She said that when she confronted. The male neighbor, he also used slurs, though that exchange was not captured on the video. She later filed [00:04:52] a police report. Spruill said her daughter was in the car and witnessed the incident. The male did not return a request from nj.com or comment. However, he replied to users on a Facebook post of the video saying the interaction quote, quote, had nothing to do with the color [00:05:15] of this woman's skin. And that she was banging on his door, screaming and trying to fight his wife. Officers said that although neither party wanted to press charges, the investigation led to the male neighbor being charged with harassment and bias intimidation. He is being [00:05:36] held in the Burlington County Jail, police said, and likely they probably concluded that if neither one of them wants to press charges that neutralizes the she said he said. But you do have 15 seconds of actual video where in the video you can definitely make a case for a [00:05:56] prosecutor to bring charges of intimidation. There we go. All right, very sad. Once again, this was a 15 second video that went viral quickly. Nobody knew the background. Now we have it. What say you, dear brother? I mean, it's very reminiscent, I think of the first uh clip we [00:06:12] just did of the threat coming in to the previous person. I mean, this is clearly someone I think who has built up a lot of anger. It's emblematic of what's going on in this nation and the whole, you know, it has nothing to do with the color of your skin. But then why would you say black [00:06:28] B word and not just B word like you're kind of again, I think like the constant contradictions that these folks. just spew without realizing it, I think speaks to something that's going on internally. They have no idea ah how to square the circle of how they feel and what [00:06:45] to do with all of this anger. And so I think instances like this become just a perfect opportunity for them to let that out and then later go, don't worry, it's actually not racist because they can't handle that either. It is once again a very sad situation, but I think the saddest [00:07:02] part is that There are likely children growing up in that environment who are hearing that kind of stuff over and over again and clearly repeating it. Yeah, well said. We'll bring updates as they develop.