“They turned something that was very painful and terrible—that almost took my love for running away—into something that brought my love for running back.'
Ingram was almost at his two-mile turnaround point when he reached the end of the trail, which led into a neighborhood he’d never run before. Looking ahead at the rows of unfamiliar houses, Ingram was struck with anxiety. He thought of
At first, Ingram thought the woman was pulling over to ask for directions, but the encounter turned into a threatening confrontation. Ingram said the woman asked for his name, but he felt uncomfortable telling her, because she was impeding his run with her car. A few minutes into the confrontation, Ingram noticed a teenager walking by with a phone. Because he didn’t have his phone with him and he felt threatened by the woman in her car, Ingram asked the neighbor to film the rest of the encounter., which Ingram later posted to social media, he says to her, “Thank you for making me aware that even today as a Black man, I still can’t run through a neighborhood without being stopped, accosted, and harassed.
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