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Thank you. Notably, the lawyer states here that they provided the receipt for the one-minute rental to the Post for their story. I'm sure the Post and any other real news outlet will want to verify the receipt with Citi Bike. Will be curious to see if Citi Bike releases a statement verifying that she rented the bike in question before it was immediately redocked, and then rented another bike. I'll also note that in the video, there's a number visible on the bike's handlebars. I don't know if it's a unique number that would identify the bike, but if so, it would be very easy to link the bike to her receipt. If it turns out she has a receipt for a one-minute rental for the bike she is sitting on in the video, to me that's case closed -- the guys are just straight up lying. |
Yup. It’s going to be very very easy for her to prove they’re liars. Also her lawyer is a serious guy. |
Just saw he spent 6 years at Littler before going solo -- he's not a hack and Littler is very good at this kind of case. I hope anyone who might be even a little liable in this case is prepared for a discovery battle. Glad she has competent representation. She appears to have followed legal advice because we haven't heard a peep. Good for her. |
I expect counsel for her employer will very quickly advise her bosses that they need to handle her with kid gloves. The interesting part will be to see the libel cases he files against the various media outlets who went after her. |
This isn’t the first time Roxane Gay has incited an internet mob. BTW Roxane Gay is from a wealthy Haitian family (father described as a “construction magnate”), went to Exeter and Yale, cousin president of Harvard; and doesn’t appear to have worked a useful job in her life. The fact that she’s attacking a nurse who had dedicated her life to poor patients, including during covid, is just wild. Roxane Gay is a bully, period. |
Yes. And note that she was never convicted of making a false 911 call. She took a plea deal. |
He threatened her dog, and had a history of getting into physical altercations over dogs, and had been similarly threatening to a black dog owner. |
Taking a plea is an admission of guilt. I really don't think these situations are analogous. Cooper straight up tried to frame a guy for attacking her even though he definitely didn't. I've watched the Cooper video multiple times and I find it almost chilling when she puts on that "scared" voice with the 911 operator when it is very clear she is in absolutely no danger whatsoever. It's creepy. And I'm a white woman. But the Citi Bike video is totally different. I have never understood why people claim she is fake crying. She's surrounded by men jeering and laughing at her. She does stop crying when she gets off the bike, but the guy filming her has literally just said "stop crying" three or four times, after repeatedly accusing her of fake crying. It's a really different situation. |
| Can we PLEASE not re-litigate Amy Cooper in this thread? It's off topic and I think confuses the issue. These situations are not the same. If you want to take about Cooper, go find what I'm sure is one of many old threads about her. |
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No it’s not. It’s an admission that it would be insane to go to trial when you have gone viral as a racist, instead of taking a few racial re-education classes as a plea deal. The “Citibike Karen” episode (along with Covington Catholic) should be your clue that you cannot get the whole story from a video clip. You are being totally subjective when you claim you can tell Amy Cooper wasn’t scared or was lying. A large man with a history of threatening dogs was threatening her dog. |
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So the receipts now show a bunch of youth ganged up to harass a pregnant woman.
Ready for people to come back and admit they were wrong. How many of these race hoaxes do we have to live through. |
| Abt the fake crying, the first thing I thought was that im not surprised she wouldn’t respond to things the same way a non medical person (esp post 12 hr shift) would. I have worked in a hospital similar to Bellevue and there are dramas, combativeness, people getting flustered or mad or pushy all the time. I’m not saying she handled it the best way a person possibly could, btw, I just think their are lots of explanations for atypical facial expressions when distressed other than desire to “weaponize her tears.” |
I had this thought too. Her annoyed/flat vocal tone is basically how a LOT of hospital nurses speak, and not just white ones. It’s the voice of someone who is used to being ignored even when they are trying to help someone or just do their job. I actually do not like it and often find hospital nurses unpleasant, but I recognize it has to do with the unique challenges of their job and has very little to do with me personally. |
Chris Cooper declined to prosecute, saying he thought she had been punished enough by her employer and the media |