Black woman from Mississippi falls victim to racist aggression in Biloxi traffic

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A A Mississippi woman is demanding justice after she was threatened and racially abused by a white man in a road rage incident.

According to SunHerald, Neco Eley was driving her 6-year-old grandson to the doctor’s office on US 90 in Biloxi when she saw a shaved-headed white man in a silver Mercedes-Benz driving erratically behind her and nearly causing an accident. Fearing the man would crash, she began filming out the car window with her cell phone. The man yelled at another innocent bystander, drove behind Eley and began harassing, threatening and taunting her with racist stereotypes.

“I should take you out of the car and beat you with a tire iron,” he screamed in Eley’s video.

According to the video, he also urged them to “return to Africa.”

The video shows the man insulting the woman with a racist slur at least five times.

The man said that if Eley’s grandson was not in the car, he would “snatch” the phone from her and “smash” it to pieces.

Throughout the disturbing video, Eley laughed nervously to calm her grandson, who she said was very nervous during the ordeal.

After about five minutes of threats, the man gave her the middle finger and drove away. When Eley arrived at the doctor’s office, her grandson was visibly shaken and began to cry.

“It’s going to be okay,” she remembered telling him. “It’s going to be okay.”

Speaking to the SunHerald, she recalled driving to her daughter’s house to watch the video for the first time.

“This man threatened me,” she said. “When I first saw this, it completely devastated me.”

On Tuesday, Biloxi police confirmed that a judge declined to issue an arrest warrant for the man who threatened Eley after she filed charges of simple assault last week.

The decision has stunned some Biloxi leaders, but Eley and the community have vowed to continue demanding justice.

Biloxi City Councilman Felix Gines told the SunHerald that the language the man used “goes against our country” and that he belongs in jail. “He doesn’t need the privilege of driving on our streets,” Gines said.

Since the incident, the fear has not subsided, says Neco Eley, and she has to take sleeping pills to calm down. She says she’s afraid he might find her again, so she stays at home most of the time.

“I am depressed,” she said. “My justice is to see him pay for what he said to me.”

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