Minutes after pulling into a Florida strip mall parking lot, gunshots rang out in the darkness. Charles McMillon told his 10-year-old son and another passenger to take cover. McMillon, who is Black, said a white couple approached with guns in their hands. That's when he put his pickup truck into full throttle and sped away in panic.

There were no injuries from the encounter last Thursday in Florida's capital city, but McMillon and his adult passenger, Kendrick Clemons, said they can't help but wonder if the encounter would have been different if they weren't Black.