Explosive confrontation erupts on streets of Chicago as black woman accuses white man of racism for filming black man's arrest - and says her rights are 'different'

The arrest of a black man on a busy Chicago street sparked fury among onlookers after a black woman insisted a white man could not film it because her rights are 'different' to his.

The white blogger headed to the scene near North Wells Street on Wednesday afternoon after a police radio scanner tweeted about an off-duty officer being assaulted by a man in a Dodge Charger.

He pulled out his phone after finding three white officers arresting the dreadlocked driver who was not resisting, but found a different subject when a female onlooker demanded he stop filming and accused him of racism.

With the arresting officers looking on in bemusement, he told her he knew his rights and suggested that she should know hers.

'Oh, I know my rights, and my rights are different from yours,' she shot back. 'You want to know why? Because that's a black man, and you're a white boy.'

The angry confrontation erupted when the smartly dressed woman spotted her fellow onlooker with his camera out.

'Stop taking a picture,' she demanded.

'Stop exploiting him, what are you doing? You're going to exploit black people?'

Whipping out her phone, she said: 'You get ready to exploit black people so let me exploit yo ass.

'Let me exploit you, you racist piece of s*** because I'm going to put you everywhere, because I bet you I've got more followers than you.'

As the confrontation escalated, she appeared to suggest that the blogger's camera work was also infringing the rights of the now-four white officers arresting the black suspect.

'You want to exploit a black man. You want to exploit these police officers doing whatever they're doing. What if it was your brother? Because you don't care,' she asserted.

'Do you know the constitution, ma'am?' the blogger asked her?

'F***. You,' she replied emphatically.

'You can record things,' he pointed out.

'His Constitution don't mean s*** to you,' she growled. 'His rights.'

'Know your rights,' the man told her, prompting her to angrily insist that her rights are different to his.

The blogger, who identifies himself as James on X, found himself at the center of an online storm when he passed footage of the encounter to the Chicago Contrarian website.

'Where did this arrogance and entitlement come from?' demanded one poster after they uploaded it to X.

'Notice how she inserts her racism by calling that grown man a White boy,' added a second.

'The last minute inclusion of exploitation of officers, was quite the audible,' wrote a third.

An intervention from a black onlooker did little to calm the situation as he appealed to the pair to 'keep the peace'.

'Look you got yo footage?' he asked the man.

'You got the right to record, you go ahead it's ok, though look..'

'You're a white boy and you're exploiting our lives,' the woman broke in. 'You don't care? I know you don't care.'

'Don't commit crimes,' the blogger told her.

'That is not a f***ing crime,' she hit back. 'You don't know what he's doing.'

'I saw it on Twitter,' he pointed out.

Some online admired the woman's spirit, with one writing: 'I hope she approaches those teens with that same energy that are up to no good downtown too!

'Respect to the guy who came in to break it up though,' another wrote.

While a third simply noted that 'Karen's come in all colors, shapes and sizes'.

James is now looking forward to seeing his adversary make good on her promise to post footage of the encounter.

'Do you think I'm going to get cancelled?' he asked.

'I really didn't do anything that crazy… but in today's world you never know.'