A Mississippi real estate agent has been dropped by his firm after a confrontation at an Alabama gas station, where he called police on a father who had taken his two young daughters into a women’s restroom.

The incident unfolded at a QuikTrip along an interstate route as Oklahoma father Tyler Brodsky was driving his family home from Florida. Brodsky later said the men’s restroom was so dirty he opted for the empty women’s restroom to help his daughters, both under school age, use the facilities and wash their hands.

As they exited, a male customer confronted Brodsky, accusing him of inappropriately entering the women’s restroom. In video later posted to TikTok, the man can be heard on the phone with police saying, “There is a man with two little girls using the women’s bathroom. He’s washing his hands with his daughters right now.”

The footage shows Brodsky trying to explain that he was simply assisting his children, while his daughters cry in the background, distressed by the escalating argument. Brodsky said his wife and “very ill” mother-in-law were also present and shaken by the encounter.

A female QuikTrip employee intervened, closing the restroom door to shield the family and apologizing to them. The customer continued to insist that a female staffer should have taken the girls into the restroom instead, arguing that Brodsky had “no business” being there.

Police arrived after the call and, according to Brodsky’s follow-up video, quickly determined he had done nothing wrong. Officers reassured him, spoke with the other man, and ultimately asked the customer to leave the store. Brodsky later praised both the officers and QuikTrip staff for how they treated his daughters after the ordeal.

Once the TikTok clips spread widely online, internet users identified the customer as a licensed realtor affiliated with Overstreet Properties, a Starkville-based real estate company. In a statement posted to social media, the firm said the man had been an independent contractor on a personal trip and that his behavior did not reflect the company’s values or standards. The company confirmed he is “no longer associated with Overstreet Properties.”

Brodsky said he hopes the viral episode prompts people to think twice before confronting parents who are simply trying to care for their children in public spaces.