Florida Sales Rep Threatened with Lynching by White Couple in Viral TikTok Video

A disturbing incident in Florida is drawing national attention after a Black sales representative captured a white couple threatening to lynch him while he was working door-to-door.

The video, posted by TikTok user @Jizzle3, shows the young man calmly walking away as a white man is heard yelling, “If you come back again, I’m going to hang you.” The woman accompanying him adds, “Good, I hope you show your employer. Show your employer that this is what your employees do.”

Visibly shaken, the man later posted a caption on the video: “All I’m trying to do is be another successful Black man. Working door to door isn’t that easy.”

The video quickly went viral, sparking outrage and an outpouring of support. One commenter wrote, “Your silence was louder than their words,” while others invoked actor Will Smith’s now-famous remark: “Racism isn’t getting worse, it’s getting filmed.”

Although the couple in the video has yet to be officially identified, social media users have circulated images believed to show their faces. Many are now calling for law enforcement to investigate the incident as a hate crime.

Under federal law, such threats could constitute a lynching under the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, signed into law in 2022. The legislation makes it a federal hate crime to conspire or attempt to commit a lynching, punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

Named after 14-year-old Emmett Till, whose brutal 1955 murder in Mississippi helped galvanize the American civil rights movement—the Act closes long-standing legal gaps that allowed racially motivated violence to go unpunished for decades.

Despite the video evidence and the gravity of the threat, the young man said in a follow-up post that a law enforcement officer dismissed his report. “There was no crime committed,” the officer allegedly said, advising him simply to avoid returning to the area.

The handling of the complaint has only deepened public anger. Civil rights advocates and legal experts are urging authorities to act swiftly, arguing that such threats are not only morally reprehensible but legally indefensible.

“This wasn’t just hateful speech—it was a direct threat to a man’s life,” one user commented. “We can’t let this go unaddressed.”

The incident adds to a growing list of racially charged encounters being documented on social media, sparking wider questions about the persistence of hate-fueled behavior and the systemic responses—or lack thereof—that follow.