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Video: Georgia Woman Calls Police On Black Babysitter

Corey Lewis runs his own child care and mentoring business, but he still came under suspicion, he says, because the white children he was watching "don't look like me."
A screenshot from a Facebook Live video recorded Sunday and posted by Corey Lewis, who said a woman called police on him for babysitting two white children who "don't look like me."

Waiting in a coffee shop, swimming, barbecuing — just a few recent examples of unremarkable activities that turned into headlines after the black people engaging in them had the police called on them.

Now add babysitting to the list.

On Sunday, Corey Lewis was watching two children when they went to a Walmart in Marietta, Ga., where they

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