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2025-05-06 01:35:44
By now, you’ve probably heard the name Shiloh Hendrix. A week ago, she was just a random mom in Minnesota. Now she’s at the center of one of the biggest social media firestorms in recent memory. It all started when she took her young child to a park in Rochester. At some point, a black child — reportedly five years old — tried to steal something from her diaper bag. Shiloh allegedly responded with anger and used a racial slur. A man named Sharmake Omar, a Somali immigrant unrelated to the boy, claims he witnessed it and started filming. His video went viral.
From there, the narrative morphed into the usual script. There’s no footage of the original incident. No confirmation of what was said, or when. The child’s age is unconfirmed. Omar claims he’s autistic, but again, there’s no evidence. Meanwhile, Omar himself was charged with sexually assaulting a minor a couple years back — charges that were dismissed “in the interest of justice,” whatever that means. But he had the camera, and the internet mob had their villain.
What came next was inevitable: Shiloh was hunted down. Her name, number, address, even her Social Security number were plastered online. She was doxxed, harassed, and threatened. People went after her child. One man even called for her baby to be beaten unconscious — and no mob came for him. Police got involved. CPS was called. Thousands of strangers united to ruin a mother’s life over an incident no one actually saw. All it took was one shaky video, a race narrative, and the internet’s favorite pastime: public stoning.