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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My take is the teen was standing next to the bike in the process of renting it, and this woman walked up to the bike, bypassing the others that were open and free to rent, without making eye contact and without asking, "Are you using this one?" because that would be the civilized thing to do and the option that takes into account that other people exist, places her left hand on the handlebar, clutching her greasy bag of food, and slips her let over the crossbar.

The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

Was your second sentence spat out by a blender? Try again.

I think the final word on this will be that she won’t be terminated, and that people who, unlike you, are receptive to reality and have a scrap of integrity, will admit that this woman isn’t a villain in this scenario.

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Anonymous wrote:This was an interesting thread to read. I appreciate those that described the process of renting the bikes.

In my opinion, the headlines saying she was stealing the bike are unfair. The headlines calling her racist are unjustified. I don't want her to lose her job over this.

That being said, she fits the description of a Karen to me. This was all over a bike rental with multiple other bikes available. The person who is right is the person who keeps their cool in what should have been a minor situation. The guys commented on her behavior and filmed her while she lost her composure. When she couldn't get the bike herself she called out for help in a really annoying way trying to get someone to come over and defend her right to have the bike. That sense of entitlement, that you can expect society to back you up in any dispute is what makes her a Karen. If you think she handles the situation well, then I'd suspect you are also a Karen.

I didn’t see other bikes available. Also being a “Karen” doesn’t merit getting internet mobbed and fired anyway.

There were other bikes available. You can see it in the video.

Well most times “Karen’s” are trying to get someone else fired, arrested and worst case killed.

No, his friend was sitting on the only other docked ebike visible. The other bike wasn’t an ebike.

Watch again. When she finally gets up there are 2 bikes available next to her docked. There is another empty bike next to him.

It shows one ebike his friend had been sitting on the whole time and then got off of; one person standing with an undocked ebike and one classic bike.

There are at least 3 bikes available. Yes the friend is sitting on one of those and another bike is undocked (would make that 4 bikes total in the video). They all say citibike and have the blue. Pause the videos.

I’ve watched it several times. There are no free ebikes shown. Dude’s friends are sitting on two visible ones.

They are because she decided to get another one once her coworker asked her to.

We don't see her get on another bike. She looks at her phone and the video ends. We have no idea what happened before or after this 90 second video (the EXTENSIVE fan fiction in this thread spinning elaborate fictions about words exchanged and actions that might have occurred).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My take is the teen was standing next to the bike in the process of renting it, and this woman walked up to the bike, bypassing the others that were open and free to rent, without making eye contact and without asking, "Are you using this one?" because that would be the civilized thing to do and the option that takes into account that other people exist, places her left hand on the handlebar, clutching her greasy bag of food, and slips her let over the crossbar.

The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

The videographer very clearly takes sides in the video -- he's friends with the guy trying to take the bike.

The videographer points at her and says "fake crying" when she puts her head in her hands, and later accuses her of fake crying when she gets off the bike. His commentary is what creates a lot of the narrative around the video, even when his comments don't match what is happening.

He is definitely NOT a "neutral 3rd party." He is actively involved and you could argue he does as much to bully her as the guy who is covering the QR code and then scans his phone when she is already on the bike. Notice that the other guys around area actually much more neutral, and the guy in the pink hoody suggests on two different occasions that they let her have the bike.

Exactly this, but PP is desperately invested in her debunked narrative. Let her have it, she has little else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My take is the teen was standing next to the bike in the process of renting it, and this woman walked up to the bike, bypassing the others that were open and free to rent, without making eye contact and without asking, "Are you using this one?" because that would be the civilized thing to do and the option that takes into account that other people exist, places her left hand on the handlebar, clutching her greasy bag of food, and slips her let over the crossbar.

The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

Was your second sentence spat out by a blender? Try again.

I think the final word on this will be that she won’t be terminated, and that people who, unlike you, are receptive to reality and have a scrap of integrity, will admit that this woman isn’t a villain in this scenario.

I really hope she has a chance to show the video to people at the hospital and explain what is happening. A lot of people concluding she is a racist thief are doing so without a very good grasp on anything that happens in the video. Once you understand what is actually happening on the video, it's really impossible to conclude that she is anything more than a slightly peeved and maybe unusually stubborn person who didn't want to give up a bike she'd already started to rent. Definitely not a thief, and definitely not trying to get these guys in trouble or harmed (they are trying to get themselves in trouble! they are starting $hit, and half of them don't even want to and are suggesting they just back off and move on).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My take is the teen was standing next to the bike in the process of renting it, and this woman walked up to the bike, bypassing the others that were open and free to rent, without making eye contact and without asking, "Are you using this one?" because that would be the civilized thing to do and the option that takes into account that other people exist, places her left hand on the handlebar, clutching her greasy bag of food, and slips her let over the crossbar.

The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

Was your second sentence spat out by a blender? Try again.

I think the final word on this will be that she won’t be terminated, and that people who, unlike you, are receptive to reality and have a scrap of integrity, will admit that this woman isn’t a villain in this scenario.

I really hope she has a chance to show the video to people at the hospital and explain what is happening. A lot of people concluding she is a racist thief are doing so without a very good grasp on anything that happens in the video. Once you understand what is actually happening on the video, it's really impossible to conclude that she is anything more than a slightly peeved and maybe unusually stubborn person who didn't want to give up a bike she'd already started to rent. Definitely not a thief, and definitely not trying to get these guys in trouble or harmed (they are trying to get themselves in trouble! they are starting $hit, and half of them don't even want to and are suggesting they just back off and move on).

Wait, do you know what really happened? I'm sorry, I can't read 37 pages looking for answers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My take is the teen was standing next to the bike in the process of renting it, and this woman walked up to the bike, bypassing the others that were open and free to rent, without making eye contact and without asking, "Are you using this one?" because that would be the civilized thing to do and the option that takes into account that other people exist, places her left hand on the handlebar, clutching her greasy bag of food, and slips her let over the crossbar.

The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

Well, she may not be a villain, but she’s definitely a drama queen in this modern-day Rashomon.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

Was your second sentence spat out by a blender? Try again.

I think the final word on this will be that she won’t be terminated, and that people who, unlike you, are receptive to reality and have a scrap of integrity, will admit that this woman isn’t a villain in this scenario.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My take is the teen was standing next to the bike in the process of renting it, and this woman walked up to the bike, bypassing the others that were open and free to rent, without making eye contact and without asking, "Are you using this one?" because that would be the civilized thing to do and the option that takes into account that other people exist, places her left hand on the handlebar, clutching her greasy bag of food, and slips her let over the crossbar.

The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

Was your second sentence spat out by a blender? Try again.

I think the final word on this will be that she won’t be terminated, and that people who, unlike you, are receptive to reality and have a scrap of integrity, will admit that this woman isn’t a villain in this scenario.

Well, she may not be a villain, but she’s definitely a drama queen in this modern-day Rashomon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My take is the teen was standing next to the bike in the process of renting it, and this woman walked up to the bike, bypassing the others that were open and free to rent, without making eye contact and without asking, "Are you using this one?" because that would be the civilized thing to do and the option that takes into account that other people exist, places her left hand on the handlebar, clutching her greasy bag of food, and slips her let over the crossbar.

The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

The videographer very clearly takes sides in the video -- he's friends with the guy trying to take the bike.

The videographer points at her and says "fake crying" when she puts her head in her hands, and later accuses her of fake crying when she gets off the bike. His commentary is what creates a lot of the narrative around the video, even when his comments don't match what is happening.

He is definitely NOT a "neutral 3rd party." He is actively involved and you could argue he does as much to bully her as the guy who is covering the QR code and then scans his phone when she is already on the bike. Notice that the other guys around area actually much more neutral, and the guy in the pink hoody suggests on two different occasions that they let her have the bike.

There is only one bully in that video. The woman. Shame on her. I hope she gets lots of free time to think about her actions and chooses to be a kinder person who makes better choices in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My take is the teen was standing next to the bike in the process of renting it, and this woman walked up to the bike, bypassing the others that were open and free to rent, without making eye contact and without asking, "Are you using this one?" because that would be the civilized thing to do and the option that takes into account that other people exist, places her left hand on the handlebar, clutching her greasy bag of food, and slips her let over the crossbar.

The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

Was your second sentence spat out by a blender? Try again.

I think the final word on this will be that she won’t be terminated, and that people who, unlike you, are receptive to reality and have a scrap of integrity, will admit that this woman isn’t a villain in this scenario.

I really hope she has a chance to show the video to people at the hospital and explain what is happening. A lot of people concluding she is a racist thief are doing so without a very good grasp on anything that happens in the video. Once you understand what is actually happening on the video, it's really impossible to conclude that she is anything more than a slightly peeved and maybe unusually stubborn person who didn't want to give up a bike she'd already started to rent. Definitely not a thief, and definitely not trying to get these guys in trouble or harmed (they are trying to get themselves in trouble! they are starting $hit, and half of them don't even want to and are suggesting they just back off and move on).

Wait, do you know what really happened? I'm sorry, I can't read 37 pages looking for answers.

The man claiming he already rented the bike is being dishonest. He was blocking the woman from renting the bike she was sitting on and scanned it to rent it while the video was filming.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is she fake crying, if she wants to be taken seriously?

Yes why is this victim not responding more gracefully to these bullies?

Why is that bully crying and screaming? While the victims try to calmly speak with her.

Why are they refusing to let her scan the bike she’s on? Explain.

Why is she refusing to get off the bike they scanned? Explain.

They scanned it after she was already on it. Literally they scan it in the video while she is sitting on it.

Everyone is convinced that this guy rented the bike before the video starts but he very clearly rents the bike midway through the video after preventing her from scanning the bike herself by covering the scanner with his hand. It's right there in the video.

Why didn't this kid just rent another bike. Explain.

Clearly he was renting the bike as it was activated and had the app open. She got on it and claimed it was hers. She didn’t even have her phone out or make any attempt to book the bike. Wouldn’t surprise me if she doesn’t even have the app.

Why didn’t she just rent another bike if she even could. Explain.

The video doesn’t show when he scanned the QR code. He might have scanned it after she sat down. Or scanned it then turned his back. Unclear what the situation was when she sat down.

Except that if he’d paid before she sat down, it would have already been unlocked, instead of unlocking during the video.

This. People are confused. You can't reserve or unlock a bike unless you are right next to it. The bike is locked at the beginning of the video, it is unlocked during the video. We clearly see him covering the screen so she can't unlock it, even though she is straddling the bike and therefore has a better claim to the bike.

She does not steal a bike he paid for. He pays for a bike she is already on, and prevents her from paying for it herself.

You absolutely can reserve a CitiBike even from blocks away.

How? You can’t in DC.

Members can reserve ahead of time in the app in NYC.

Ok but then why is he covering up the QR code? Doesn’t seem like he reserved it.

NP. You keep saying he’s covering the QR code. What I see is him holding on to the bike.

I also see a woman trying to leave with the bike that she knows she did not reserve or unlock.

Then you don’t know where the QR code is. Hint: right under his palm.

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Anonymous wrote:My take is the teen was standing next to the bike in the process of renting it, and this woman walked up to the bike, bypassing the others that were open and free to rent, without making eye contact and without asking, "Are you using this one?" because that would be the civilized thing to do and the option that takes into account that other people exist, places her left hand on the handlebar, clutching her greasy bag of food, and slips her let over the crossbar.

The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

Was your second sentence spat out by a blender? Try again.

I think the final word on this will be that she won’t be terminated, and that people who, unlike you, are receptive to reality and have a scrap of integrity, will admit that this woman isn’t a villain in this scenario.

Well, she may not be a villain, but she’s definitely a drama queen in this modern-day Rashomon

I don’t think people should be internet-stalked and have to take leave from work because they’re dramatic and unpleasant. It just seems wrong to me. There is nothing showing that she’s a ‘racist’ ‘Karen.’ No one has to take her to prom, but this gleeful take down is effed up.

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The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

Well, she may not be a villain, but she’s definitely a drama queen in this modern-day Rashomon.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

Was your second sentence spat out by a blender? Try again.

I think the final word on this will be that she won’t be terminated, and that people who, unlike you, are receptive to reality and have a scrap of integrity, will admit that this woman isn’t a villain in this scenario.

Again. Ill pare it down for you. One of your own told her to stop and she did (with lightening speed). So i’ll do you the same service. Stop.

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The teen reacts as any sane person would to this act of aggression and rudeness. "Hey lady what are you doing?"

She thinks it's 2015 and she's hot stuff, and he must want it because they all do right, and he under her spell will give up the bike. When that bit of mind f*7ckry doesn't work because she's no Kim K., she resorts too...

Expressing dominance through, white lady tears, and cries for help, thinking the teen is going to back off, but this fella isn't having it. This isn't 1960 and he's not fearing a good lynching for daring to make eye contact with a white woman.

But now she's embarrassed and can't back down, because nothing is working, and a neutral 3rd party has started filming.

Well, she may not be a villain, but she’s definitely a drama queen in this modern-day Rashomon.

And she ups the stakes when her colleague comes by, hysterical sobs, but that doesn't work either, because the colleague is just like drama lama soon to be someone's mama, get off the bike, you idiot.

Since he is a white man and a doctor, she complies, like a good little girl, after all of that earlier nonsense. A grown woman, a mother to at least one child, with another on the way, allowed herself to be caught on camera cycling through all of the trick to get a black man shot in the head, and in the end only stopped because a white man told her too.

She'd still be on that bike whining and crying about the black guys trying to hurt her fetus if he hadn't shown up and taken charge.

Everything else is a distraction. This dumb woman played a stupid game and now she's reaping stupid rewards.

Were her actions stupid, racist, and entitled? Heck yes. Stupid, racist, and entitled is a very dangerous combination.

She's lucky in this instance no one got hurt, other than her reputation, hopefully, she learns something and moves on as a more enlightened person.

The fallout, for acting like a fool on a city street...she's now on leave from her employer, pending an investigation. Employers don't like employees who cause problems, especially those who cause public problems, and especially those who don't lack value add. She's a PA, not a surgeon, not a doctor = she's toast.

Internet famous for all of the wrong reasons.

Regardless of the twits on here trying to defend her actions, she has a really large public egg all over her face. So much for life in the big city. Twit.

Trolling - video not filmed by a disinterested 3rd party; also, racist.

The videographer no relationship with the parties involved in the dispute. That is the know the other parties. That’s the literally definition of 3rd party.

But when your only reply is Troll, non issue point, followed by and you’re a racist too.

Your parting words should be simple and sweet. “Uncle” and “No mas”

Was your second sentence spat out by a blender? Try again.

I think the final word on this will be that she won’t be terminated, and that people who, unlike you, are receptive to reality and have a scrap of integrity, will admit that this woman isn’t a villain in this scenario.

Again. Ill pare it down for you. One of your own told her to stop and she did (with lightening speed). So i’ll do you the same service. Stop.

You have zero control of anyone here who is actually watching and commenting on what happened, not on what you wish happened. You’re wrong on the facts, you’re not a moderator, and you really don’t have standing telling anyone - particularly anyone of any background despite your making an ass out of you presumptions - to step out of any discussion. You can step away to calm down and reorganize your babble-posts, of course.

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In my opinion, the headlines saying she was stealing the bike are unfair. The headlines calling her racist are unjustified. I don't want her to lose her job over this.

That being said, she fits the description of a Karen to me. This was all over a bike rental with multiple other bikes available. The person who is right is the person who keeps their cool in what should have been a minor situation. The guys commented on her behavior and filmed her while she lost her composure. When she couldn't get the bike herself she called out for help in a really annoying way trying to get someone to come over and defend her right to have the bike. That sense of entitlement, that you can expect society to back you up in any dispute is what makes her a Karen. If you think she handles the situation well, then I'd suspect you are also a Karen.

I didn’t see other bikes available. Also being a “Karen” doesn’t merit getting internet mobbed and fired anyway.

There were other bikes available. You can see it in the video.

Well most times “Karen’s” are trying to get someone else fired, arrested and worst case killed.

No, his friend was sitting on the only other docked ebike visible. The other bike wasn’t an ebike.

Watch again. When she finally gets up there are 2 bikes available next to her docked. There is another empty bike next to him.

It shows one ebike his friend had been sitting on the whole time and then got off of; one person standing with an undocked ebike and one classic bike.

There are at least 3 bikes available. Yes the friend is sitting on one of those and another bike is undocked (would make that 4 bikes total in the video). They all say citibike and have the blue. Pause the videos.

I’ve watched it several times. There are no free ebikes shown. Dude’s friends are sitting on two visible ones.

You’re choosing not to see the bikes. They are there in the video.

Please show screenshots.

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Anonymous wrote:If there are other bikes available, why didn't he just go rent one of the other bikes when the woman is on this bike? He's standing next to it, she's actually on it.

The only way to explain either of their behavior is if it's the last e-bike, raising the stakes for who gets it.

if he did reserve it, that makes more sense. but unclear why he would be covering up the QR code. Also his friend is just sitting on the other bike.