There are several articles about this. The pregnant hospital worker who worked a 12 hour shift was put on leave.
https://www.newser.com/story/335367...aren-placed-on-leave-after-bike-incident.html
more stories about it ..
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/citi-bike-hospital-viral-video-b2341739.html
https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/nyc-h...tried-to-steal-citibike-from-young-black-man/
https://news.yahoo.com/white-woman-caught-video-trying-145237833.html
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https://www.revolt.tv/article/2023-...es-to-steal-black-mans-bike-in-new-york-city/
White woman caught on video trying to steal Black youth's bike in New York City
“Karen” screamed for help and tried to drum up tears during the altercation she provoked.
“Karen” behavior is being called out again. The latest incident involves a white woman who was caught on camera attempting to hijack a rentable Citi Bike from a young Black man in New York City.
The woman appeared to be an employee of NYC Health + Hospitals based on the embroidered health system’s logo observed on her scrubs. In the nearly two-minute video, she tried her best to make a scene that painted the man as a
threat to her well-being. “Help! Help me! Please, help me,” screamed the woman to grab the attention of passersby who would see her in perceived despair while surrounded by a group of Black youth.
The
bike had apparently already been paid for by the young man, who continued to hold on to a portion of the handlebars. All the while, the woman continued to attempt to straddle the bike and dangerously draw attention to the chaotic encounter. “You’re hurting my fetus,” she quipped before fake crying to drum up sympathy from the crowd of onlookers who had begun to surround her and the men. As noted by the person recording the ordeal, she never actually shed a tear.
When a white
male dressed in similar scrubs suggested that she be allowed to take the bike, the young man explained that it was already associated with his account. It was not until the man said she should take another available bike that she finally calmed down and began to set up the nearby bike for use.
Across the social platform, people called out “Karen” for crying wolf during an incident that could have ended tragically for the group. “I keep coming back to this, and I am so irritated. The same type of bulls**t is how
Carolyn Bryant got Emmett Till killed. It’s how white women have facilitated the deaths of Black men for centuries,” wrote one person.
Another commented, “That white man told the Black kid to just give up the bike he paid for to that white woman because she felt
entitled to it. That’s the sort of perspective that white [people], if they heard it from anyone else’s lips, would call extremely un-American.”
And a third tweeted, “This is horrific behavior that could have got these guys
arrested, assaulted, or worse. White women’s tears (although there didn’t actually seem to be any tears) are dangerous.”
The full “Karen” encounter is below.
Oh it turns out this is all race baiting BS from media and those young guys yelling at her.
NYC hospital ‘Karen’ paid for Citi Bike at center of viral fight with black man: lawyer
The lawyer for a Manhattan hospital worker accused of taking a Citi Bike from a young black man — who claimed that he paid for the two-wheeler — provided receipts that he says show she was the one who purchased the ride at the center of the viral incident
The Bellevue Hospital employee — who was branded a “Karen” on social media afterward — rented the bike first, lawyer Justin Marino said in a statement to The Post Wednesday.
He also provided two Citi Bike receipts from May 12, which were timestamped just minutes apart.
The first receipt reviewed by The Post shows the bike being taken out before it was re-locked one minute later, which Marino said is the bike seen in the video.
The second receipt shows another bike being taken out a minute later from the same docking station and was the bike Marino said his client used to get home after being “heckled and pressured to find a new bike” by the group.
The hospital employee, who Marino says is a six-months-pregnant physician assistant, was placed on
leave by NYC Health + Hospitals this week after her heated encounter with the men emerged online Saturday and has been viewed tens of millions of times.
Marino called the caught-on-tape interaction “incomplete” and lacking facts.
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He said after the health care worker wrapped up her 12-hour shift, she got on an available bike, “which no individuals were on or touching,” and paid for it through the Citi Bike app on her phone.
As she backed it up from the docking station, a group of five people approached her and claimed the bike was theirs, he said.
“One or more individuals in that group physically pushed her bike (with her on it) back into the docking station, causing it to re-lock,” Marino said in the written statement.
One of the individuals then covered the bike’s QR code, stopping her from paying for it again so she could leave, Marino said.
“In blocking the QR code, this individual’s arm was touching my client’s pregnant stomach, a condition of which she had made them aware,” he added. “Throughout this time and for the remainder of the video, roughly five individuals were telling her to get off the bike and heckling her.”
“The fact anyone would treat another person like this is tragic, especially a visibly pregnant woman,” he said.
The roughly 90-second clip that begins mid-confrontation shows the woman dressed in hospital-branded scrubs screaming for help as she tugs at the bike.
“Help! Help me! Please, help me,” she yells.
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The young man kept his grip on the bike’s handlebars and repeatedly told the woman that he already paid to use that particular bike and it wasn’t hers.
“Get off me! Get off me, you’re hurting my fetus,” the woman then shouted as she pushed the man away.
“I’m not touching you! You’re putting your stomach on my hand,” the man replied.
Halfway through the clip, the hospital worker appears to start crying as another man in the same scrubs approached the melee to see what was going on.
The young man again claimed to the woman the bike was on his account and asked her to move before she rented another bike on the advice of her colleague.
Some social media users called the interaction racist while others compared the situation to when Amy Cooper
called the police on a black birdwatcher in 2020 and lost her job over it.
The NYPD said it did not receive any 911 calls over this incident.
Marino said his client is a dedicated hospital worker who has treated “literally thousands of New York City residents of all backgrounds/ethnicities.”
“Simply, her entire life has been focused on helping others, irrespective of their background,” Marino said
NYC Health + Hospitals called the video “disturbing” when announcing she was placed on leave Tuesday. The hospital system said she would remain on leave pending a review of the incident.
Marino declined to comment on anything tied to his client’s employment Wednesday.
NYC Health + Hospitals did not immediately return a request for a comment Wednesday.
