Physicians Assistant yelling “HELP ME” while stealing a CitiBike ?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. This woman is crazy wtf was her problem? She is crying wolf and fake tears. I’m glad this is on video. Otherwise people would just be saying “believe her”.

I thought we are just supposed to let mentally ill people do whatever they want, regardless of what harm it causes other people?

I think it's more that we aren't supposed to kill them for causing a scene in public. So, the people at the scene seem to have handled this appropriately.

She wasn't just "causing a scene in public." She was out to STEAL from him. By yelling "help" she was attempting to change the way a police officer/the general public would view/treat him if they intervened. She is dangerous.

Agreed. She could have for him shot with that behavior. Unconscionable and indefensible.

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This is my experience with bike shares:

Person walks up to bike share station, identifies the bike they want to take. Sometimes you might look at a few bikes and pick one based on it's condition or whether you will need to adjust the seat.

Then you unlock the bike while either standing right next to it or sitting on it. I have never seen someone unlock a bike while standing more than a few inches from a bike. You have to scan the QR code to unlock it, so usually you are right next to it.

So I'm confused about several things:
- If he unlocked the bike, how did she manage to get on the bike? When the video starts, she's sitting on the bike. Did she walk up and sit on a bike that someone was literally holding as they unlocked it? That's extremely aggressive behavior and if that's what she did, I wish the guy in the video would just release a statement explaining it because that would clarify a lot.

- Or, assuming he unlocked the bike, did he walk away from it after unlocking it? This is unusual behavior -- people don't do this. In that case, I lean towards some kind of misunderstanding. Like if he unlocked it and walked away, and then she walked up and discovered the bike unlocked and thinks "cool, someone left it unlocked, free bike" that's not amazing behavior on her part but it's not as bad as actively trying to steal it. And then maybe when he walks up and says it's his, she's a jerk about it. This isn't a defense of her behavior, I'm just trying to understand what happened.

- Why doesn't he cancel the bike once she refuses to get off? Is that not possible? If this happened to me and someone tried to take a bike I'd paid for, that's what I'd do. And I'd tell them "ok I'm cancelling the bike and I'm going to take a photo of you and send it to them so they don't charge me." And then I'd leave and go find a different bike. Because I am not confrontational. I don't understand why their solution was to surround her (there are at least three people around her, the guy who says it's his bike, she friend who is blocking her from pulling it out, and the person filming her) and demand the bike back. That's not how I'd handle it and I think that's aggressive, conflict-seeking behavior regardless of what race you are.

I just have a lot of questions here. I get what people are saying about her "weaponized tears" and I agree she seems really manipulative there. But I can't tell if she's being manipulative because she literally stole this bike out from under him, or because she misunderstood the situation and then tried to save face, or because she genuinely thought the bike was hers and that's the tactic she was using to try and keep it, or what.

Like yeah, she weaponized tears. But he's using physical intimidation and numbers to get what he wants. Since I don't actually know what happened, I'm inclined to say they both behaved badly and I would not handle that situation the way either of them do. Almost everyone in the video except the guy who initially comes to help her and then is like "uh, I don't know what's going on, never mind" is behaving like a child. Including the guy demanding the bike and his friends. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

I’m following I’m following the Hospital’s Twitter feed to see if they update her employment status.

Why would they fire her over an argument in a viral video or publicly say anything? She’s in a union. Not gonna happen.

There was never an argument over who reserved the bike. Maybe at first she didnt realize it was already assigned. Once she knew she didn’t have a bike reserved, she went directly to “HELP ME HELP ME” bs stuff we know gets black guys arrested and killed.
Terrible reaction, behavior and judgement on her part.

I see a woman being physically prevented from leaving by a larger, stronger man, and prevented from scanning a QR code on her phone, which she has out. I don’t see anything consistent with a claim that she was trying to steal a bike that someone else had rented.

This is the wildest claim made by anyone in this thread. The video doesn't remotely show that and she's free to leave whenever she wants, like she does at the end.

He’s physically holding the bike.

Which isn't her. She's free to step away from the bike and leave. Instead, she's actively pushing against him and trying to take his phone. Saying she's being "prevented from leaving" is just lying.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe how many people have her back on this thread!

+1 I wonder where all these people come from.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

You can’t book a citibike in advance. About the only thing this video actually shows is that somebody unlocked the bike, but it’s unclear who.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

Please show a screen capture proving that he unlocked it. Please also show your evidence (if he did unlock it) that she was knowingly trying to take it from him (as opposed to being confused about who unlocked it).

This has been covered several times. Go look upthread if you want to know.

Also, a normal person who is confused doesn't act the way she did. A normal person would calmly say "I was under the impression that the bike was free. Would you mind showing me that you reserved it." He shows her and she moves on. There is a bike right next to her after all. Why is it so important that she get THAT one?

There is no screen capture showing he unlocked the bike.

All you can see in the video is a second of his blurry screen. There is no obvious evidence in that video that he unlocked the bike. I’m not saying that he didn’t; he likely did. But there is zero evidence in that clip that he did.

I believe he *thinks* he unlocked the bike and of course doesn’t want her to take off with it. If they had resolved this calmly and not started filming and screaming like idiots, would not have been an issue.

I’m waiting patiently for someone to prove that he rented this bike, and she rented no bike. Honestly it should be easy to prove?

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe how many people have her back on this thread!

+1 I wonder where all these people come from.

Sincerely, I don’t have her back. I am just trying to figure out what is true. I am open to the idea that either of them are right. It’s just not proven. At all.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

I’m following I’m following the Hospital’s Twitter feed to see if they update her employment status.

Why would they fire her over an argument in a viral video or publicly say anything? She’s in a union. Not gonna happen.

There was never an argument over who reserved the bike. Maybe at first she didnt realize it was already assigned. Once she knew she didn’t have a bike reserved, she went directly to “HELP ME HELP ME” bs stuff we know gets black guys arrested and killed.
Terrible reaction, behavior and judgement on her part.

I see a woman being physically prevented from leaving by a larger, stronger man, and prevented from scanning a QR code on her phone, which she has out. I don’t see anything consistent with a claim that she was trying to steal a bike that someone else had rented.

This is the wildest claim made by anyone in this thread. The video doesn't remotely show that and she's free to leave whenever she wants, like she does at the end.

He’s physically holding the bike.

The bike checked out by him and on his account? Yes, yes his is holding the bike. Because if she leaves on it and doesn't return it, he's out $1000.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe how many people have her back on this thread!

+1 I wonder where all these people come from.

they came from outside your Twitter bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

You can’t book a citibike in advance. About the only thing this video actually shows is that somebody unlocked the bike, but it’s unclear who.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

Please show a screen capture proving that he unlocked it. Please also show your evidence (if he did unlock it) that she was knowingly trying to take it from him (as opposed to being confused about who unlocked it).

This has been covered several times. Go look upthread if you want to know.

Also, a normal person who is confused doesn't act the way she did. A normal person would calmly say "I was under the impression that the bike was free. Would you mind showing me that you reserved it." He shows her and she moves on. There is a bike right next to her after all. Why is it so important that she get THAT one?

There is no screen capture showing he unlocked the bike.

All you can see in the video is a second of his blurry screen. There is no obvious evidence in that video that he unlocked the bike. I’m not saying that he didn’t; he likely did. But there is zero evidence in that clip that he did.

I believe he *thinks* he unlocked the bike and of course doesn’t want her to take off with it. If they had resolved this calmly and not started filming and screaming like idiots, would not have been an issue.

The only person yelling like an idiot is her. The guys were calm and trying to resolve the issue. Did you even watch the video or just came here to defend this woman?

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

You can’t book a citibike in advance. About the only thing this video actually shows is that somebody unlocked the bike, but it’s unclear who.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

Please show a screen capture proving that he unlocked it. Please also show your evidence (if he did unlock it) that she was knowingly trying to take it from him (as opposed to being confused about who unlocked it).

This has been covered several times. Go look upthread if you want to know.

Also, a normal person who is confused doesn't act the way she did. A normal person would calmly say "I was under the impression that the bike was free. Would you mind showing me that you reserved it." He shows her and she moves on. There is a bike right next to her after all. Why is it so important that she get THAT one?

There is no screen capture showing he unlocked the bike.

All you can see in the video is a second of his blurry screen. There is no obvious evidence in that video that he unlocked the bike. I’m not saying that he didn’t; he likely did. But there is zero evidence in that clip that he did.

I believe he *thinks* he unlocked the bike and of course doesn’t want her to take off with it. If they had resolved this calmly and not started filming and screaming like idiots, would not have been an issue.

I’m waiting patiently for someone to prove that he rented this bike, and she rented no bike. Honestly it should be easy to prove?

Even if that’s true, it wouldn’t support the hyperbolic claims that she was “weaponizing tears” and trying to make him into “the new Emmet Till.”

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe how many people have her back on this thread!

+1 I wonder where all these people come from.

they came from outside your Twitter bubble.

Yeah instead it’s the DCUM bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

You can’t book a citibike in advance. About the only thing this video actually shows is that somebody unlocked the bike, but it’s unclear who.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

Please show a screen capture proving that he unlocked it. Please also show your evidence (if he did unlock it) that she was knowingly trying to take it from him (as opposed to being confused about who unlocked it).

This has been covered several times. Go look upthread if you want to know.

Also, a normal person who is confused doesn't act the way she did. A normal person would calmly say "I was under the impression that the bike was free. Would you mind showing me that you reserved it." He shows her and she moves on. There is a bike right next to her after all. Why is it so important that she get THAT one?

There is no screen capture showing he unlocked the bike.

All you can see in the video is a second of his blurry screen. There is no obvious evidence in that video that he unlocked the bike. I’m not saying that he didn’t; he likely did. But there is zero evidence in that clip that he did.

I believe he *thinks* he unlocked the bike and of course doesn’t want her to take off with it. If they had resolved this calmly and not started filming and screaming like idiots, would not have been an issue.

The only person yelling like an idiot is her. The guys were calm and trying to resolve the issue. Did you even watch the video or just came here to defend this woman?

They were filming and blocking her from leaving on the bike.

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Anonymous wrote:Because her conduct is that of a person who is crazy, irrational, dishonest and/or racially biased, and she acted this way while wearing her work uniform, clearly displaying her employer’s name. That makes it her employer’s business.

That’s not what the video shows.

What the video shows is a dispute where everyone is getting upset. Whatever happened with the bike, nobody hit anyone, nobody used any racial slurs, nobody even called the police.

What IS unambiguously happening is that an internet mob is now pushing the narrative that this is a racist incident (including using racist language against her) and trying to get her fired.

Because it is. If you know, you know.

Because it is what?

The most likely unfavorable interpretation is that they got to the bike at the same time and she believed she unlocked it first, but he actually had. She sat on the bike and he physically blocked her from leaving. At that point both parties have created the situation that escalated with her panic and confusion. Then after less than a minute she got off the bike. End of story.

You are skipping the part where she yells "Help, help" and then fake cries while he is forced to calmly and repeatedly reiterate that he reserved the bike.

You are also skipping the part where he's a teen and she's a grown-ass adult. So he's forced to be the mature one, the calm one, the rational one, while she weaponizes her tears to try to get him arrested/harmed or just to get her way.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

You can’t book a citibike in advance. About the only thing this video actually shows is that somebody unlocked the bike, but it’s unclear who.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

Please show a screen capture proving that he unlocked it. Please also show your evidence (if he did unlock it) that she was knowingly trying to take it from him (as opposed to being confused about who unlocked it).

This has been covered several times. Go look upthread if you want to know.

Also, a normal person who is confused doesn't act the way she did. A normal person would calmly say "I was under the impression that the bike was free. Would you mind showing me that you reserved it." He shows her and she moves on. There is a bike right next to her after all. Why is it so important that she get THAT one?

There is no screen capture showing he unlocked the bike.

All you can see in the video is a second of his blurry screen. There is no obvious evidence in that video that he unlocked the bike. I’m not saying that he didn’t; he likely did. But there is zero evidence in that clip that he did.

I believe he *thinks* he unlocked the bike and of course doesn’t want her to take off with it. If they had resolved this calmly and not started filming and screaming like idiots, would not have been an issue.

The only person yelling like an idiot is her. The guys were calm and trying to resolve the issue. Did you even watch the video or just came here to defend this woman?

They were filming and blocking her from leaving on the bike.

No one was blocking her in. she refused to leave and screamed and fake cried.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

You can’t book a citibike in advance. About the only thing this video actually shows is that somebody unlocked the bike, but it’s unclear who.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

Please show a screen capture proving that he unlocked it. Please also show your evidence (if he did unlock it) that she was knowingly trying to take it from him (as opposed to being confused about who unlocked it).

This has been covered several times. Go look upthread if you want to know.

Also, a normal person who is confused doesn't act the way she did. A normal person would calmly say "I was under the impression that the bike was free. Would you mind showing me that you reserved it." He shows her and she moves on. There is a bike right next to her after all. Why is it so important that she get THAT one?

There is no screen capture showing he unlocked the bike.

All you can see in the video is a second of his blurry screen. There is no obvious evidence in that video that he unlocked the bike. I’m not saying that he didn’t; he likely did. But there is zero evidence in that clip that he did.

I believe he *thinks* he unlocked the bike and of course doesn’t want her to take off with it. If they had resolved this calmly and not started filming and screaming like idiots, would not have been an issue.

The only person yelling like an idiot is her. The guys were calm and trying to resolve the issue. Did you even watch the video or just came here to defend this woman?

They were filming and blocking her from leaving on the bike.

Of course they were blocking her from leaving ON the bike! It was on his account. If you rented a car and someone jumped into the driver's seat and tried to drive away, you would just let them go?