White woman arrested after pulling gun on Black mom at eatery

A white couple face criminal charges after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters during an altercation in a restaurant parking lot in Orion Township, northwest of Detroit.

Jillian Wuestenberg, 32, and Eric Wuestenberg, 42, were arrested after Wednesday night’s confrontation and charged Thursday with felonious assault, Oakland County prosecutor Jessica Cooper said in a release. They were later arraigned and are free on a $50,000 personal bond, according to the Oakland County sheriff ’s office.

The Detroit News first reported on the 3-minute cellphone video posted online that shows part of the heated exchange. Takelia Hill, who is Black, told the newspaper that it happened after the white woman bumped into Hill’s teenage daughter as they were entering the restaurant.

A woman since identified as Jillian Wuestenberg is heard arguing with Hill and her daughters. Wuestenberg climbs into a vehicle, lowers the window and says, “White people aren’t racist,” and, “I care about you,” before the vehicle starts to back away.

Then, as someone is behind the vehicle, Jillian Wuestenberg jumps out and points a handgun in the direction of a person who’s recording. She screams at people to get away. A woman shouts, “She’s got a gun on me!” and urges someone in the parking lot to call the police.

She eventually lowers the gun and gets back in the vehicle, which her husband drives away.

“It is an unfortunate set of circumstances that tempers run high over, basically, not much of an incident,” Cooper said of what led to the confrontation.