Audrey Harnagel

2004 College graduate Carlos Gomez was leaving his apartment in a rush one day, late for a meeting. While exiting his apartment building, he saw a black man on the other side of the door and unwittingly jumped back.

2004 College graduate Carlos Gomez was leaving his apartment in a rush one day, late for a meeting. While exiting his apartment building, he saw a black man on the other side of the door, and unwittingly jumped back. The door opened to reveal his landlady’s 13-year-old son, who Gomez described as “goofy” and “the most nonthreatening person.” “I jumped back like he was a lion, or a guy with a machine gun.

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