New York Post

DAD probes ‘butt-grab’ 911 caller

- Anthony Izaguirre

“Corner Store Caroline” might end up in cuffs. The Th Brooklyn DA on Saturday said his office was looking into the circumstan­ces behind the viral video of a white woman calling the cops on a 9-yyear-old black boy who she falsely fal claimed touched her buttocks. bu “We are looking into this disturbing incident involving Teresa Klein,” Brooklyn District D Attorney Eric Gonzalez z wrote on Twitter Sat- urday. A spokespers­on for his office declined to comment further.

Klein (left), 53, can be seen in the video clip standing outside the Sahara Deli in Flatbush on Wednesday, telling a 911 operator that she had been sexually assaulted by the child.

“I want the cops here right now!” Klein shouts into her cellphone. “The son grabbed my ass, and she [the boy’s mom] decided to yell at me,” she says.

But surveillan­ce footage from the bodega shows that only the boy’s backpack brushed against Klein as he walked by.

On Friday, Klein apologized to the boy but refused to say sorry to his mother.

“I would like to apologize to her daughter and her son, but not to her. She could have walked away, but she didn’t. I’m also a Buddhist, [but] I let my temper show,” Klein said.

On Friday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams requested the probe, calling the incident a “modern-day Emmett Till moment.” Till, and African-American 14-year-old, was beaten and murdered in Mississipp­i in 1955 after a white woman accused him of whistling at her.

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