Back in 2023, two Rochester men, Mohamed Hussein Omer and Sharmake Beyle Omar, appeared in court on charges of criminal sexual conduct. However, the Olmsted County Attorney’s Office dismissed ...

I’m being punished very severely after doing something good,” said Sharmake Omar, the man whose video has been viewed millions of times worldwide since it was released to social media.

I’m being punished very severely after doing something good,” said Sharmake Omar, the man whose video has been viewed millions of times worldwide since it was released to social media.

A video recorded at a Rochester, Minnesota, playground of a woman repeatedly shouting a racial slur has garnered strong responses from activist groups. The video captures Sharmake Omar confronting ...

Since that encounter, Omar says he's received death threats and had to leave his home after his personal information was leaked. Sharmake Omar "My life has been turned upside down," Omar said.

NBC/Sharmake Omar When Sharmake Omar asked Hendrix if she flung the vile slur at the child, she told him, “Yeah,” the clip showed. “He took my son’s stuff,” she declared.

The man who recorded the video, Sharmake Omar, 30, said in an interview Friday that the 5-year-old child was called the N-word by the woman Monday.

Nashauna Johnson-Lenoir, center, introduces Sharmake Omar to the crowd at a call-to-action event at Soldiers Field Park in Rochester, Monday, May 5, 2025. Omar took the video that has gone viral ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC /Gray News) – A white Minnesota mother accused of using racial slurs against a 5-year-old Black boy at a playground has raised over $600,000 for herself on an online ...