Students and supporters held a protest cookout outside a white couple’s East Austin, Texas, home over the October 10-11 weekend after a video showed the woman telling a Black Houston-Tillotson University student, “This is our neighborhood,” during a street-parking dispute.
Bri, the student who recorded the exchange, accused the couple of leaving notes on students’ and professors’ cars and blocking one professor’s vehicle with trash and recycling bins.
Bri confronts the couple over notes on cars
Huston-Tillotson, a historically Black university, traces its roots to 1875 and is part of East Austin’s Black cultural district.
Bri explained in follow-up videos on her Instagram account that campus parking was limited, so she used the surrounding streets…