A white woman in Florida threatened to call 911 on a Black locksmith outfitted in her company’s attire with a logo on her hat — claiming she was breaking into a house.
But when Vesha Delvey called out the egregious “Karen” behavior, the woman turned the tables on her, calling her a racist.
Delvey, who operates Crazy Clutch Locksmith in Jacksonville, recorded the encounter and recently posted it to TikTok, writing, “Throwback to when the police [were] called because I was working while Black.”
The video shows Delvey clearly stating that she’s a locksmith working on a job, but that didn’t stop the neighbor from recording her every move and allegedly weaponizing the police. The video provided no update on whether officers ever responded.
When Delvey referred to her as a Karen in her video, the woman doubled down on the behavior: “Yeah, I’m a Karen. You’re on private property. Ya’ll don’t know what’s private.”
Seemingly done talking directly to the woman, Delvey addressed her viewers, saying that if anyone knew her personally, they should talk some sense into her, adding that just because she sees a Black person “doing something” doesn’t mean it’s illegal.
“She doesn’t have to be a Karen all her life,” she mused. “It can be better. We don’t have to treat each other like this.”
Delvey launched her locksmith company seven years ago and said she had never encountered anything like this—or had anyone mistake her for a burglar.
“I refuse to let people of her nature bring me to that same level,” she wrote in the comments section of her video. “First time anything like that has ever happened to me.”
As messages of sympathy poured into the comments, all she could do was laugh at the entire ordeal, saying the woman was “just talking crazy.”
@crazy.clutch.lock Throwback To When The POLICE 🚨🚔 Was Called On Me Because I Was Working While Black! TBT 😭 CRAZY CLUTCH LOCKSMITH 📍 JAX,FL #Duval #Locksmith #RacismAwareness #Karen #StopRacism ♬ Oh No (Instrumental) – Kreepa
