Video shows racial confrontation

A video of a man who appears to be white refusing to let a man of color into his own San Francisco apartment complex is the latest racially charged incident to occur in the city in recent weeks.

Michael Barajas posted a video on Instagram from inside his car showing a white vehicle with Florida license plates blocking a garage entrance to his apartment building, which Barajas later identified as the SOMA Residences.

After the entrance is blocked for several minutes, another man arrives and argues with the man in the white sport utility vehicle, who was identified by news reports as William Beasley. The other man appears to slap the SUV. Beasley then exits the white SUV and confronts the man before appearing to knock him to the ground.

“His first words to me were, ‘We’re not letting you in here, you f—ing criminal,’ ” Barajas, a UC Berkeley alumnus and health professional, said in a separate video posted Friday.

Barajas, who told NBC Bay Area that he is Mexican American, said in the video that he is originally from Los Angeles and was raised by hardworking immigrant parents. He said he felt he was targeted because of the way he looks and said he no longer feels safe in his own home.

Neither Barajas nor Beasley responded to attempts to contact them. A person who answered the phone at SOMA Residences said she was not able to comment on the incident.

Beasley reportedly worked at the technology company Apex systems, which said on Twitter it had concluded a review of an incident involving an employee and fired the person.

“We will not tolerate violent or racist behavior of any kind at Apex Systems,” the company said on Twitter.

The incident is reminiscent of a confrontation in the Pacific Heights neighborhood this month, which saw Lisa Alexander, who is white, confront Jaime Juanillo, a person of color, for stenciling “Black Lives Matter” in chalk on the retaining wall in front of his own home.