A “Karen” situation sparked outrage on social media last weekend when a white female health-care worker reportedly attempted to steal a rideshare bike from a group of Black teenagers.
The white female was filmed yelling and fake crying as she sat on the rideshare bike to prevent the teenager from getting on it. She repeatedly yelled “Help! Help me! Please, help me.”
The teen kept saying in the background of the video, “This is not your bike.” The Black youth and his group of friends also explained in the video that they had already paid for the bikes.
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A white male co-worker intervened along with two other white male bystanders to try to encourage the Black teenager to just give up the bike. The co-worker even suggested the boy should reset the bike.
Then, the woman started fake crying and said that the teen was “hurting her unborn child.”
“You’re hurting my fetus. You’re hurting my unborn child,” the woman yelled in the video.
The teen responded, “I am not touching you. You are putting your stomach on my hand. This is my bike on my account.”
The woman also snatched the phone of the young person that she was arguing with over the bike. Another teen with the group attempted to resolve the problem by offering his bike, but the woman refused and kept pretending to cry.
Social media users pointed out that if the boy would’ve just given her the bike, he could’ve lost his money due to the cancellation policy, with him being charged a cancellation fee.
The woman was quickly identified as Svetlana Fontaine by social media users because she was pictured in the video wearing a health-care badge with her name and face on it, as well as scrubs. At the beginning of…
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