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

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Anonymous wrote:Not aggressive? She wouldn’t stop touching him, and snatched his phone away from him.

She snatches his phone to prevent him from using it to scan the bike, because she is on the bike. She doesn't just randomly try to steal his phone. He is in the process of taking the bike away from her and won't let her access the QR reader, so she grabs for his phone because it's the only other way to prevent him from scanning the bike.

Not saying it's okay that she tried to grab his phone (I personally wouldn't do that) but in context it matters.

Also, she is only touching him because he's invading her space. She's on the bike and he has placed himself right next to her and is physically blocking her from the QR reader. She's touching him because she is trying to get him to move back away from the bike. He isn't actually entitled to that space, but he's taking it anyway.

I feel like I’m being gaslit.

She snatched his phone. There’s no excuse for that.

She would not stop touching him, even when it was obviously unnecessary.

She faked tears with shaking, and turned it off as soon as it was obvious it wasn’t working.

You are certainly welcome to make excuses for all of that behavior, but I’m not playing along with it.

I agree with all of this. But at the end of the day, they lied about her. She wasn’t trying to steal. They tried to snake her bike.

Why did they lie?!

This. It's very clear that he rents the bike after she is already sitting on it. She didn't try to steal it.

So why did this video ever even wind up on the internet? The guy who took it knows what actually happened, and is perpetuating a narrative that she "stole" the bike from him.

The posted this video knowing it would go viral and that she would be attacked. She's been doxed, she's on leave from work, and a bunch of people online are calling her a racist and a thief.

It's very troubling. This could happen to anyone.

She’s being doxed bc the video is showing what she did and how she is acting. If she was innocent the way DCUM seems to think she is, she wouldn’t be getting doxed.

It’s only troubling to people who act like her. So it couldn’t happened to anyone.

Are you kidding?!? You don’t need to be innocent to be doxxed. Just do something that could possibly be interpreted as racist and you’re screwed. No one waits for the full story to come out - it’s instant mobs and pitchforks. It’s the current American way.

Before today I would have said you’re paranoid. But Jesus. This incident really has me doubting whether the truth can prevail even when it’s caught on camera.

The media has a narrative to sell, the truth doesn't have much to do with it.

Stuff like this will help get Trump re-elected. Mark my words. There are plenty of people who will see a video like this, see how the media is warping the narrative, and vote for him out of spite. The woke left has no one to blame but themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t assume she’s mentally ill as pps claim. I think it’s more that she always gets her way. Sometimes she has to throw a tantrum. I bet her friends and husbands co-sign this assessment.

She does not even get her way in the one situation you have seen her in -- she gives up and walks away. Why would you assume that she always gets her way in any other part of her life?

The immediate whining, “HELP ME HELP ME,” victimization, sudden onset of fake tears when a colleague appears, refusing to get off the bike while never once claiming it’s hers, resorting to the lame “hurting the fetus” …. She’s using every method she knows.
Her friends know.

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Anonymous wrote:Not aggressive? She wouldn’t stop touching him, and snatched his phone away from him.

She snatches his phone to prevent him from using it to scan the bike, because she is on the bike. She doesn't just randomly try to steal his phone. He is in the process of taking the bike away from her and won't let her access the QR reader, so she grabs for his phone because it's the only other way to prevent him from scanning the bike.

Not saying it's okay that she tried to grab his phone (I personally wouldn't do that) but in context it matters.

Also, she is only touching him because he's invading her space. She's on the bike and he has placed himself right next to her and is physically blocking her from the QR reader. She's touching him because she is trying to get him to move back away from the bike. He isn't actually entitled to that space, but he's taking it anyway.

I feel like I’m being gaslit.

She snatched his phone. There’s no excuse for that.

She would not stop touching him, even when it was obviously unnecessary.

She faked tears with shaking, and turned it off as soon as it was obvious it wasn’t working.

You are certainly welcome to make excuses for all of that behavior, but I’m not playing along with it.

You think YOU are being gaslit? Watch the video. You don't have to "play along" with anything.

She is only touching him because she is on the bike and he is reaching across her to cover the reader and then scan it with his phone. She is touching him because he is reaching across her and trying to intimidate her off the bike.

I don't understand why you are so invested in a made up narrative. Like no one has to make up a narrative about the Central Park birder incident or the BBQ Becky incident or those videos of crazy anti-masker ripping up Walmarts when asked to put on a mask. Because it's very clear what is happening and watching the video makes it clear to people.

But with this, watching the video is immediately confusing. I saw this video posted on twitter with a caption like "watch her use fake tears to try and get these guys shot." and then I watched the video and was just confused. Because that's not what happened? At all? Like even a little? Other captions were like "she steals his bike and then cries for help omg" (that's the title of this thread!). But she doesn't steal "his" bike. It is initially no ones bike and they are having a dispute over it. Then he rents it while she's sitting on it. She calls for help because he's covering the reader on the bike and won't let her rent it.

Like, you think I'm gaslighting you, but I'm watching the actual video and describing the things happening in the video, and you are just parroting a narrative of stuff that didn't happen.

I stopped reading your long-winded response about half way through. She was touching him when it was obviously unnecessary. That’s not a narrative. It’s objective reality.

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Anonymous wrote:Not aggressive? She wouldn’t stop touching him, and snatched his phone away from him.

She snatches his phone to prevent him from using it to scan the bike, because she is on the bike. She doesn't just randomly try to steal his phone. He is in the process of taking the bike away from her and won't let her access the QR reader, so she grabs for his phone because it's the only other way to prevent him from scanning the bike.

Not saying it's okay that she tried to grab his phone (I personally wouldn't do that) but in context it matters.

Also, she is only touching him because he's invading her space. She's on the bike and he has placed himself right next to her and is physically blocking her from the QR reader. She's touching him because she is trying to get him to move back away from the bike. He isn't actually entitled to that space, but he's taking it anyway.

I feel like I’m being gaslit.

She snatched his phone. There’s no excuse for that.

She would not stop touching him, even when it was obviously unnecessary.

She faked tears with shaking, and turned it off as soon as it was obvious it wasn’t working.

You are certainly welcome to make excuses for all of that behavior, but I’m not playing along with it.

You think YOU are being gaslit? Watch the video. You don't have to "play along" with anything.

She is only touching him because she is on the bike and he is reaching across her to cover the reader and then scan it with his phone. She is touching him because he is reaching across her and trying to intimidate her off the bike.

I don't understand why you are so invested in a made up narrative. Like no one has to make up a narrative about the Central Park birder incident or the BBQ Becky incident or those videos of crazy anti-masker ripping up Walmarts when asked to put on a mask. Because it's very clear what is happening and watching the video makes it clear to people.

But with this, watching the video is immediately confusing. I saw this video posted on twitter with a caption like "watch her use fake tears to try and get these guys shot." and then I watched the video and was just confused. Because that's not what happened? At all? Like even a little? Other captions were like "she steals his bike and then cries for help omg" (that's the title of this thread!). But she doesn't steal "his" bike. It is initially no ones bike and they are having a dispute over it. Then he rents it while she's sitting on it. She calls for help because he's covering the reader on the bike and won't let her rent it.

Like, you think I'm gaslighting you, but I'm watching the actual video and describing the things happening in the video, and you are just parroting a narrative of stuff that didn't happen.

I stopped reading your long-winded response about half way through. She was touching him when it was obviously unnecessary. That’s not a narrative. It’s objective reality.

You’re right!

But not a single headline says “woman touches man for no reason.”

It says “woman accused of trying to steal bike.”

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Anonymous wrote:Not aggressive? She wouldn’t stop touching him, and snatched his phone away from him.

She snatches his phone to prevent him from using it to scan the bike, because she is on the bike. She doesn't just randomly try to steal his phone. He is in the process of taking the bike away from her and won't let her access the QR reader, so she grabs for his phone because it's the only other way to prevent him from scanning the bike.

Not saying it's okay that she tried to grab his phone (I personally wouldn't do that) but in context it matters.

Also, she is only touching him because he's invading her space. She's on the bike and he has placed himself right next to her and is physically blocking her from the QR reader. She's touching him because she is trying to get him to move back away from the bike. He isn't actually entitled to that space, but he's taking it anyway.

I feel like I’m being gaslit.

She snatched his phone. There’s no excuse for that.

She would not stop touching him, even when it was obviously unnecessary.

She faked tears with shaking, and turned it off as soon as it was obvious it wasn’t working.

You are certainly welcome to make excuses for all of that behavior, but I’m not playing along with it.

I agree with all of this. But at the end of the day, they lied about her. She wasn’t trying to steal. They tried to snake her bike.

Why did they lie?!

This. It's very clear that he rents the bike after she is already sitting on it. She didn't try to steal it.

So why did this video ever even wind up on the internet? The guy who took it knows what actually happened, and is perpetuating a narrative that she "stole" the bike from him.

The posted this video knowing it would go viral and that she would be attacked. She's been doxed, she's on leave from work, and a bunch of people online are calling her a racist and a thief.

It's very troubling. This could happen to anyone.

She’s being doxed bc the video is showing what she did and how she is acting. If she was innocent the way DCUM seems to think she is, she wouldn’t be getting doxed.

It’s only troubling to people who act like her. So it couldn’t happened to anyone.

Are you kidding?!? You don’t need to be innocent to be doxxed. Just do something that could possibly be interpreted as racist and you’re screwed. No one waits for the full story to come out - it’s instant mobs and pitchforks. It’s the current American way.

Like the woman in Central Park? Or the woman calling the police on the 8 yr old selling lemonade? Or the woman calling the police on kids at the pool? Or the woman claiming burglary in a AIRBNB house? Or the woman claiming a black kid stole her phone? Yeah, they were innocent.

None of what you said invalidates my comment.

Bc you think they were innocent. Not surprising.

Not one person has suggested that people in OTHER videos are innocent.

Many posters have calmly explained why the woman in THIS video is innocent of what she is accused of. She does not attempt to steal this bike. She does not fake cry. She does not sic the cops on these boys. She is forced off a bike she is clearly trying to rent and she does so with only a minutes worth of resistance before calmly moving on. She's not a saint, but she's done nothing wrong.

I actually do think she’s fake crying.

But she’s NOT stealing and they ARE trying to take a bike by preventing her from renting it.

No one is a saint here. She could have backed off sooner. But it’s not what people are saying. Very clearly not.

I find this take fascinating because if you agree that they are trying to prevent her from renting the bike, does she not have a reason to be upset? Then why is she "fake crying"? If she has a reason to be upset, why can't she just be upset. That's the face she makes when someone is being unfair to her and no one is listening. It's not "fake". It's real.

Also, why should she have backed off sooner? Because I agree with you, but the reason I think she should have backed off sooner is to protect herself and her reputation from exactly what has happened, which is that this video has been posted online and a bunch of people have accused her of doing something she didn't do and now she is humiliated even though I don't really think she did anything wrong.

Like we're basically saying she should have backed off and given up the bike sooner to avoid being publicly slandered. That's interesting, right?

The lunatics screaming about how the woman is clearly in the wrong want to destroy her life at this point just because. It’s sport to them. It’s an inchoate anger, very much a part of their character but unanchored to facts or even to their locked-in view of what the video ‘proves.’

It’s not surprising, and it can’t be discussed honestly. The point is not the video. The point is that the boys are necessarily 2023 Emmitt Tills, and the woman is necessarily a villain because she’s necessarily a Karen. You can’t change their minds, and it’s funny at this point.

That’s a bit hyperbolic. We’re discussing the video here, not trying to ruin anyone’s life.

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Anonymous wrote:Not aggressive? She wouldn’t stop touching him, and snatched his phone away from him.

She snatches his phone to prevent him from using it to scan the bike, because she is on the bike. She doesn't just randomly try to steal his phone. He is in the process of taking the bike away from her and won't let her access the QR reader, so she grabs for his phone because it's the only other way to prevent him from scanning the bike.

Not saying it's okay that she tried to grab his phone (I personally wouldn't do that) but in context it matters.

Also, she is only touching him because he's invading her space. She's on the bike and he has placed himself right next to her and is physically blocking her from the QR reader. She's touching him because she is trying to get him to move back away from the bike. He isn't actually entitled to that space, but he's taking it anyway.

I feel like I’m being gaslit.

She snatched his phone. There’s no excuse for that.

She would not stop touching him, even when it was obviously unnecessary.

She faked tears with shaking, and turned it off as soon as it was obvious it wasn’t working.

You are certainly welcome to make excuses for all of that behavior, but I’m not playing along with it.

You think YOU are being gaslit? Watch the video. You don't have to "play along" with anything.

She is only touching him because she is on the bike and he is reaching across her to cover the reader and then scan it with his phone. She is touching him because he is reaching across her and trying to intimidate her off the bike.

I don't understand why you are so invested in a made up narrative. Like no one has to make up a narrative about the Central Park birder incident or the BBQ Becky incident or those videos of crazy anti-masker ripping up Walmarts when asked to put on a mask. Because it's very clear what is happening and watching the video makes it clear to people.

But with this, watching the video is immediately confusing. I saw this video posted on twitter with a caption like "watch her use fake tears to try and get these guys shot." and then I watched the video and was just confused. Because that's not what happened? At all? Like even a little? Other captions were like "she steals his bike and then cries for help omg" (that's the title of this thread!). But she doesn't steal "his" bike. It is initially no ones bike and they are having a dispute over it. Then he rents it while she's sitting on it. She calls for help because he's covering the reader on the bike and won't let her rent it.

Like, you think I'm gaslighting you, but I'm watching the actual video and describing the things happening in the video, and you are just parroting a narrative of stuff that didn't happen.

I stopped reading your long-winded response about half way through. She was touching him when it was obviously unnecessary. That’s not a narrative. It’s objective reality.

You’re right!

But not a single headline says “woman touches man for no reason.”

It says “woman accused of trying to steal bike.”

I don’t care what headlines say. That’s not what I’m talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t assume she’s mentally ill as pps claim. I think it’s more that she always gets her way. Sometimes she has to throw a tantrum. I bet her friends and husbands co-sign this assessment.

She does not even get her way in the one situation you have seen her in -- she gives up and walks away. Why would you assume that she always gets her way in any other part of her life?

The immediate whining, “HELP ME HELP ME,” victimization, sudden onset of fake tears when a colleague appears, refusing to get off the bike while never once claiming it’s hers, resorting to the lame “hurting the fetus” …. She’s using every method she knows.
Her friends know.

I’m sure they all know she’s stubborn and overdramatic. That much is evident to me.

I bet she also has a strong sense of justice. Gets mad when people cheat at cards.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t assume she’s mentally ill as pps claim. I think it’s more that she always gets her way. Sometimes she has to throw a tantrum. I bet her friends and husbands co-sign this assessment.

She does not even get her way in the one situation you have seen her in -- she gives up and walks away. Why would you assume that she always gets her way in any other part of her life?

Your rational assessment doesn’t support PP’s narrative. That’s why she’s sticking with her bs. If not, her argument falls apart.

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Anonymous wrote:Not aggressive? She wouldn’t stop touching him, and snatched his phone away from him.

She snatches his phone to prevent him from using it to scan the bike, because she is on the bike. She doesn't just randomly try to steal his phone. He is in the process of taking the bike away from her and won't let her access the QR reader, so she grabs for his phone because it's the only other way to prevent him from scanning the bike.

Not saying it's okay that she tried to grab his phone (I personally wouldn't do that) but in context it matters.

Also, she is only touching him because he's invading her space. She's on the bike and he has placed himself right next to her and is physically blocking her from the QR reader. She's touching him because she is trying to get him to move back away from the bike. He isn't actually entitled to that space, but he's taking it anyway.

I feel like I’m being gaslit.

She snatched his phone. There’s no excuse for that.

She would not stop touching him, even when it was obviously unnecessary.

She faked tears with shaking, and turned it off as soon as it was obvious it wasn’t working.

You are certainly welcome to make excuses for all of that behavior, but I’m not playing along with it.

You think YOU are being gaslit? Watch the video. You don't have to "play along" with anything.

She is only touching him because she is on the bike and he is reaching across her to cover the reader and then scan it with his phone. She is touching him because he is reaching across her and trying to intimidate her off the bike.

I don't understand why you are so invested in a made up narrative. Like no one has to make up a narrative about the Central Park birder incident or the BBQ Becky incident or those videos of crazy anti-masker ripping up Walmarts when asked to put on a mask. Because it's very clear what is happening and watching the video makes it clear to people.

But with this, watching the video is immediately confusing. I saw this video posted on twitter with a caption like "watch her use fake tears to try and get these guys shot." and then I watched the video and was just confused. Because that's not what happened? At all? Like even a little? Other captions were like "she steals his bike and then cries for help omg" (that's the title of this thread!). But she doesn't steal "his" bike. It is initially no ones bike and they are having a dispute over it. Then he rents it while she's sitting on it. She calls for help because he's covering the reader on the bike and won't let her rent it.

Like, you think I'm gaslighting you, but I'm watching the actual video and describing the things happening in the video, and you are just parroting a narrative of stuff that didn't happen.

I stopped reading your long-winded response about half way through. She was touching him when it was obviously unnecessary. That’s not a narrative. It’s objective reality.

You’re right!

But not a single headline says “woman touches man for no reason.”

It says “woman accused of trying to steal bike.”

I don’t care what headlines say. That’s not what I’m talking about.

Okay then what are you talking about?

This didn’t go viral because she touched him. It went viral because she’s been accused of trying to steal a bike on someone else’s Citibike account.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t assume she’s mentally ill as pps claim. I think it’s more that she always gets her way. Sometimes she has to throw a tantrum. I bet her friends and husbands co-sign this assessment.

She does not even get her way in the one situation you have seen her in -- she gives up and walks away. Why would you assume that she always gets her way in any other part of her life?

The immediate whining, “HELP ME HELP ME,” victimization, sudden onset of fake tears when a colleague appears, refusing to get off the bike while never once claiming it’s hers, resorting to the lame “hurting the fetus” …. She’s using every method she knows.
Her friends know.

I’m sure they all know she’s stubborn and overdramatic. That much is evident to me.

I bet she also has a strong sense of justice. Gets mad when people cheat at cards.

I bet she always plays the victim and is the one who cheats at cards.

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Anonymous wrote:Not aggressive? She wouldn’t stop touching him, and snatched his phone away from him.

She snatches his phone to prevent him from using it to scan the bike, because she is on the bike. She doesn't just randomly try to steal his phone. He is in the process of taking the bike away from her and won't let her access the QR reader, so she grabs for his phone because it's the only other way to prevent him from scanning the bike.

Not saying it's okay that she tried to grab his phone (I personally wouldn't do that) but in context it matters.

Also, she is only touching him because he's invading her space. She's on the bike and he has placed himself right next to her and is physically blocking her from the QR reader. She's touching him because she is trying to get him to move back away from the bike. He isn't actually entitled to that space, but he's taking it anyway.

I feel like I’m being gaslit.

She snatched his phone. There’s no excuse for that.

She would not stop touching him, even when it was obviously unnecessary.

She faked tears with shaking, and turned it off as soon as it was obvious it wasn’t working.

You are certainly welcome to make excuses for all of that behavior, but I’m not playing along with it.

You think YOU are being gaslit? Watch the video. You don't have to "play along" with anything.

She is only touching him because she is on the bike and he is reaching across her to cover the reader and then scan it with his phone. She is touching him because he is reaching across her and trying to intimidate her off the bike.

I don't understand why you are so invested in a made up narrative. Like no one has to make up a narrative about the Central Park birder incident or the BBQ Becky incident or those videos of crazy anti-masker ripping up Walmarts when asked to put on a mask. Because it's very clear what is happening and watching the video makes it clear to people.

But with this, watching the video is immediately confusing. I saw this video posted on twitter with a caption like "watch her use fake tears to try and get these guys shot." and then I watched the video and was just confused. Because that's not what happened? At all? Like even a little? Other captions were like "she steals his bike and then cries for help omg" (that's the title of this thread!). But she doesn't steal "his" bike. It is initially no ones bike and they are having a dispute over it. Then he rents it while she's sitting on it. She calls for help because he's covering the reader on the bike and won't let her rent it.

Like, you think I'm gaslighting you, but I'm watching the actual video and describing the things happening in the video, and you are just parroting a narrative of stuff that didn't happen.

I stopped reading your long-winded response about half way through. She was touching him when it was obviously unnecessary. That’s not a narrative. It’s objective reality.

You’re right!

But not a single headline says “woman touches man for no reason.”

It says “woman accused of trying to steal bike.”

I don’t care what headlines say. That’s not what I’m talking about.

Okay then what are you talking about?

This didn’t go viral because she touched him. It went viral because she’s been accused of trying to steal a bike on someone else’s Citibike account.

I’m the poster who feels like I’m being gaslit. A lot of details are being dismissed or relabeled for your narrative, when they’re quite clearly in the video. Deal with reality if you want to be taken seriously.

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I'm sorry to say that I initially believed the title of this thread and watched the video thinking that woman was the worst and deserved to be named and shamed. I'm very happy I followed up on this thread and read the post with the detailed explanation of the video and rewatched with that information, hearing the clunk and ding indicating that the man rented the bike after she was already sitting on it. Now, I don't know what happened before the video started, but I feel as though I've learned my lesson and will no longer make gross assumptions to fit any sort of narrative.

If I were in that woman's situation, I don't know how I would have reacted. If it turns out that she was sitting on the bike before he made any indication that he wanted to rent it (I don't know this was the case), and then he prevented her from renting it, as was clear in the video, I can understand her acting out of frustration. I myself would probably have been cussing like a sailor.

What is obvious is that too many of us are too quick to jump on the bandwagon of assuming the worst in people, myself included sadly.

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Anonymous wrote:Not aggressive? She wouldn’t stop touching him, and snatched his phone away from him.

She snatches his phone to prevent him from using it to scan the bike, because she is on the bike. She doesn't just randomly try to steal his phone. He is in the process of taking the bike away from her and won't let her access the QR reader, so she grabs for his phone because it's the only other way to prevent him from scanning the bike.

Not saying it's okay that she tried to grab his phone (I personally wouldn't do that) but in context it matters.

Also, she is only touching him because he's invading her space. She's on the bike and he has placed himself right next to her and is physically blocking her from the QR reader. She's touching him because she is trying to get him to move back away from the bike. He isn't actually entitled to that space, but he's taking it anyway.

I feel like I’m being gaslit.

She snatched his phone. There’s no excuse for that.

She would not stop touching him, even when it was obviously unnecessary.

She faked tears with shaking, and turned it off as soon as it was obvious it wasn’t working.

You are certainly welcome to make excuses for all of that behavior, but I’m not playing along with it.

I agree with all of this. But at the end of the day, they lied about her. She wasn’t trying to steal. They tried to snake her bike.

Why did they lie?!

This. It's very clear that he rents the bike after she is already sitting on it. She didn't try to steal it.

So why did this video ever even wind up on the internet? The guy who took it knows what actually happened, and is perpetuating a narrative that she "stole" the bike from him.

The posted this video knowing it would go viral and that she would be attacked. She's been doxed, she's on leave from work, and a bunch of people online are calling her a racist and a thief.

It's very troubling. This could happen to anyone.

This looks like a pretty clear example of a group of guys bullying a woman. I can't imagine these guys would have had the balls to try something like this if it was a large dude sitting on the bike.

Exactly.

I also think if the group of guys was white, a lot of people would instantly recognize that they are bullying her. I've been treated this way by a group of white teenage or early 20s boys and it's really frustrating.

People are imposing a narrative on it because they have been primed for it by other videos and events. Look at all the people in this thread invoking Jordan Neely's tragic murder, as though it is in any way analogous to this situation.

The woman in this video is not perfect, but she's not harming anyone. At all. Nothing she does is racist or dangerous or even unjustified.

This only ended the way this did, because these dudes picked on a much smaller woman. I know plenty of guys I grew up with, white and black, that wouldn't have hesitated to stomp these guys to the sidewalk, and feed the cameraman his phone. And they would have had it coming.

These guys would never had done any of this if the person on the bike were a larger man. The only reason the guy feels entitled to reach across this woman and prevent her from accessing the reader is because she is smaller than he is and he can physically intimidate her. And it works. He's able to speak calmly and not threaten her with his voice, because his body is large enough to threaten her off the bike. That she's pregnant only makes it easier, because she is motivated to keep her body safe but he doesn't care, so he is confident that ultimately she'll move. And she does.

^^true

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Anonymous wrote:Not aggressive? She wouldn’t stop touching him, and snatched his phone away from him.

She snatches his phone to prevent him from using it to scan the bike, because she is on the bike. She doesn't just randomly try to steal his phone. He is in the process of taking the bike away from her and won't let her access the QR reader, so she grabs for his phone because it's the only other way to prevent him from scanning the bike.

Not saying it's okay that she tried to grab his phone (I personally wouldn't do that) but in context it matters.

Also, she is only touching him because he's invading her space. She's on the bike and he has placed himself right next to her and is physically blocking her from the QR reader. She's touching him because she is trying to get him to move back away from the bike. He isn't actually entitled to that space, but he's taking it anyway.

I feel like I’m being gaslit.

She snatched his phone. There’s no excuse for that.

She would not stop touching him, even when it was obviously unnecessary.

She faked tears with shaking, and turned it off as soon as it was obvious it wasn’t working.

You are certainly welcome to make excuses for all of that behavior, but I’m not playing along with it.

You think YOU are being gaslit? Watch the video. You don't have to "play along" with anything.

She is only touching him because she is on the bike and he is reaching across her to cover the reader and then scan it with his phone. She is touching him because he is reaching across her and trying to intimidate her off the bike.

I don't understand why you are so invested in a made up narrative. Like no one has to make up a narrative about the Central Park birder incident or the BBQ Becky incident or those videos of crazy anti-masker ripping up Walmarts when asked to put on a mask. Because it's very clear what is happening and watching the video makes it clear to people.

But with this, watching the video is immediately confusing. I saw this video posted on twitter with a caption like "watch her use fake tears to try and get these guys shot." and then I watched the video and was just confused. Because that's not what happened? At all? Like even a little? Other captions were like "she steals his bike and then cries for help omg" (that's the title of this thread!). But she doesn't steal "his" bike. It is initially no ones bike and they are having a dispute over it. Then he rents it while she's sitting on it. She calls for help because he's covering the reader on the bike and won't let her rent it.

Like, you think I'm gaslighting you, but I'm watching the actual video and describing the things happening in the video, and you are just parroting a narrative of stuff that didn't happen.

I stopped reading your long-winded response about half way through. She was touching him when it was obviously unnecessary. That’s not a narrative. It’s objective reality.

He literally had his arm over her body.

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Anonymous wrote:Not aggressive? She wouldn’t stop touching him, and snatched his phone away from him.

She snatches his phone to prevent him from using it to scan the bike, because she is on the bike. She doesn't just randomly try to steal his phone. He is in the process of taking the bike away from her and won't let her access the QR reader, so she grabs for his phone because it's the only other way to prevent him from scanning the bike.

Not saying it's okay that she tried to grab his phone (I personally wouldn't do that) but in context it matters.

Also, she is only touching him because he's invading her space. She's on the bike and he has placed himself right next to her and is physically blocking her from the QR reader. She's touching him because she is trying to get him to move back away from the bike. He isn't actually entitled to that space, but he's taking it anyway.

I feel like I’m being gaslit.

She snatched his phone. There’s no excuse for that.

She would not stop touching him, even when it was obviously unnecessary.

She faked tears with shaking, and turned it off as soon as it was obvious it wasn’t working.

You are certainly welcome to make excuses for all of that behavior, but I’m not playing along with it.

You think YOU are being gaslit? Watch the video. You don't have to "play along" with anything.

She is only touching him because she is on the bike and he is reaching across her to cover the reader and then scan it with his phone. She is touching him because he is reaching across her and trying to intimidate her off the bike.

I don't understand why you are so invested in a made up narrative. Like no one has to make up a narrative about the Central Park birder incident or the BBQ Becky incident or those videos of crazy anti-masker ripping up Walmarts when asked to put on a mask. Because it's very clear what is happening and watching the video makes it clear to people.

But with this, watching the video is immediately confusing. I saw this video posted on twitter with a caption like "watch her use fake tears to try and get these guys shot." and then I watched the video and was just confused. Because that's not what happened? At all? Like even a little? Other captions were like "she steals his bike and then cries for help omg" (that's the title of this thread!). But she doesn't steal "his" bike. It is initially no ones bike and they are having a dispute over it. Then he rents it while she's sitting on it. She calls for help because he's covering the reader on the bike and won't let her rent it.

Like, you think I'm gaslighting you, but I'm watching the actual video and describing the things happening in the video, and you are just parroting a narrative of stuff that didn't happen.

I stopped reading your long-winded response about half way through. She was touching him when it was obviously unnecessary. That’s not a narrative. It’s objective reality.

You’re right!

But not a single headline says “woman touches man for no reason.”

It says “woman accused of trying to steal bike.”

I don’t care what headlines say. That’s not what I’m talking about.

Okay then what are you talking about?

This didn’t go viral because she touched him. It went viral because she’s been accused of trying to steal a bike on someone else’s Citibike account.

I’m the poster who feels like I’m being gaslit. A lot of details are being dismissed or relabeled for your narrative, when they’re quite clearly in the video. Deal with reality if you want to be taken seriously.

I honestly don’t know what you’re trying to say. Was she trying to steal the bike on someone else’s account, or not?