Missouri Candidate Says Woman Stalked Him, Removed Campaign Cards While He Canvassed
A Black political candidate, Justice Horn, was canvassing a Lake Tapawingo neighborhood in Jackson County, Missouri, when an elderly white woman wielding a walking stick began trailing him, Atlanta Black Star reports.
According to Horn, she followed him with a weapon and approached a neighbor, asking them if he was a danger to them
Describing the odd scene, Horn noted that the woman appeared to have “just stepped out of a flower bed and left a trowel stuck in the dirt to deal with the man.” The interaction was captured on video and posted to his TikTok account.
Horn called the encounter “a deeply unsettling and racist encounter while knocking doors in Lake Tapawingo.” In his TikTok caption, he wrote: “I was speaking with a kind older resident at a door when another woman suddenly interrupted our conversation and asked her, ‘Ma’am, are you okay?’”
The resident responded, “Yeah, why would you ask that?” The woman then said, “I was just making sure he’s not dangerous,” and aggressively questioned him about why he was present in the neighborhood. Afterwards, she trailed him down the street with a hooked pole, removing his campaign literature from a doorstep.
When Horn requested that she leave his materials alone, she replied, “I don’t have to, and I’m not going to.” After Horn pulled out his phone and began filming the woman for his own safety, she reportedly changed her story, claiming she was following him due to soliciting.
The video shows the woman standing at a neighbor’s door with her back to him. Horn can be heard saying, “Ma’am, please leave my card alone,” but she ignores him, removes the card, and waits for someone to answer.
Horn then politely asks, “Is there any way I can have my card back?” The woman turns partially, avoids eye contact, hands back the card, and murmurs, “Stop soliciting here.” Horn responds, “I got permission from the neighbors,” but she returns to the door and peers inside as if expecting someone to answer.
Despite describing the incident as disturbing, Horn emphasized it would not derail his campaigning plans.
