The woman calls the police of a “homeless” man walking his newborn. It turns out to be her neighbor (exclusive)

• Chapman Hamberg is an artist from southern California

• With a newborn in the family, he often takes his daughter to walk around the neighborhood and admits that sometimes he looks “rumble”

• One morning, after his routine walk, a neighbor said he had seen a homeless man and a baby, resulting in the police appearing at his door

Chapman Hamberg is an artist and father of four, lives and works in Huntington Beach, California.

The 33-year-old is often drawing and sculpting in his backyard or surfing the waves near his home. However, his favorite fun is to spend quality time with the family.

Ever since he met a newborn just a month ago, Hamberg’s routine has included daily walks around the neighborhood in an attempt to calm her daughter and give her wife some time to relax. However, he never expected the police to call him that he looked “homeless”.

Hamborg and his family live in a quiet beach neighborhood, on a street, located between a middle and a high school, leading to a good amount of foot traffic. One early in the morning, the artist walked with his newborn daughter, as he often does, along a route passing the street behind their house.

“She is in her vanity scene for a newborn, so she takes it a lot of walks and carry her in the baby carrier,” Hamberg tells Hamberg exclusively to people. “I often go out in the middle of the night, like all the time of the day and several times a day. It’s kind of like a routine to give a break to my wife.”

However, their routine was interrupted as Hamborg and his daughter were returning from their second walk on the morning of April 22, 2025. Until then, the family was pulled out, the children were playing outside and he began to help his wife Hannah inside.

It was his biggest son that pointed the police car parked right in front of their house. At first, Hamborg wondered if anyone had called the cops of his family, even though he wasn’t sure why. He and the officer met in half on their lawn and exchanged confused glances.

“He was very friendly and kind,” Hamborg explains. “So I was not alert … I already somehow hinted that there must have been some wrong communication.”

The employee revealed that someone had reported a homeless man with a baby and found an address after following Hamborg’s home.

Hamborg, with his daughter, still on his chest, was shocked and a little embarrassed. The employee explained that a neighbor was concerned about what he saw and asked him to provide a form of identification. He immediately went inside to look for his wallet and tell his wife what was happening. Hannah was distrustful and decided to go out for support.

“I was like trembling and – you can hear it in my voice in the video – my voice is just like everywhere,” he recalls. “I am in my own home. I am in my own neighborhood with my own baby and it’s just wild that this can happen … it’s somehow crazy.”

Nevertheless, after providing his identity card, Hamborg, his wife and officer see themselves laughing at the situation in a viral video.

“I think it helped that he was just really friendly and really kind,” Hamberg admits. “If he were someone who may have been more relentless and, you know, it was a little more aggressive and intense, it would certainly be a different interaction.”

Hamberg’s father was a firefighter, so he grew up, he was always scientific to be polite and collaboration with the police. But after sharing the experience online, some people commented that if it was black, the situation could be played differently.

Others have indicated the privilege that they can make it laugh, making Hamberg realize how quickly people can be stereotypical. “It’s interesting to think about it all,” he says. “There is so much of this in our culture right now.”

During his morning walk, Hamborg wore his jacket from Patagonia, but looked pretty careless with her hair, pulled back in a loose bun, a hole in a slipper and painted painted clothes. Often he even walks Boss and admits that he has never thought anything before.

“I am an artist and I have torn clothes and other things. I am confident in who I am in my style and, you know, I have never been in a barber. I cut my own hair,” he explains. “I have no problem with that. When I decide to dress the way I do for some reason and I will not change the way I look because of it.”

Although his children agreed with his father to look “homeless”, others were outraged throughout the situation.

“This is the most strange because she suggested that you are homeless and then watched you enter a home and still call the police,” one man commented. Another writes: “Parenting literally makes us all look restless and careless.”

After the incident, Hamborg has never received an excuse from the neighbor who called the police. Although he is not sure of her identity, he noticed that he was sitting in her car against his house while he was talking to the officer.

“So I’ve seen her car … I recognize the car, so I can find out which house it is in. And I have gone a few walks back -back since, I hope to see it and just be like,” I am, I’m your neighbor and I’m not homeless, “he shares. “

Although Hamborg admits that an apology from his neighbor would be nice, he chooses to have a positive perspective on the situation and thinks to send a letter to the woman thanks to her that she is vigilant.

“I would like to use it as an opportunity to get to know my neighbor and to be grateful that she is looking for our children or the neighborhood,” says Hamborg. “Instead of knowing, you turn it into a separation thing.”

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