A video posted to Facebook has gone viral, showing us yet another unfortunate and unsettling example of prejudice.
Jonathan Pentland, 42, is a drill sergeant and US Army sergeant first class who approached a Black man on the sidewalk in a South Carolina subdivision in April of 2021.
Though the three-minute clip doesn't show what initially started the altercation, Pentland can be seen asking the unnamed man what he's doing there — and the man, seemingly bewildered, responds by saying he's just walking outside and minding his own business.
But Pentland angrily insists that the man leave the neighborhood at once, getting in his face and even threatening to harm him.
"You're in the wrong neighborhood … I ain’t playing with you. … I'm about to show you what I can do."
Things take a physical turn when Pentland shoves the other man and slaps the phone out of his hand, damaging it.
After the video went viral, Pentland was charged with and eventually found guilty of third-degree assault.
Watch the disturbing incident below.
