The woman at the center of the viral brick assault that sparked social media discourse is now facing charges months after the incident.
In September, Roda Osman, dubbed online as “Brick Lady,” made a video saying a man struck her in the face with a brick because she didn’t want to give him her phone number outside a club in Houston, Texas. The assault left her with a visible bump on her cheek, and she called out the other men in the area for not intervening.
“This man just hit me in the face with a brick, and all these Black men just watched, and they don’t give a f**k,” Osman said.
“What do you want us to do?” one of the men asked.
“I want y’all to be a man and do something,” she responded.
The Instagram live of her reaction immediately circulated on social media platforms, including TikTok and X, also known as Twitter. In addition, a now-deleted GoFundMe for the 33-year-old titled “Help Roda Recover” raised nearly $43,000 within weeks. Officials now claim that she used a bogus story to collect thousands of donations, local news reported.
“GoFundMe has zero tolerance for the misuse of our platform and cooperates with law enforcement investigations of those accused of wrongdoing,” a spokesperson told KPRC-TV in a statement. “The fundraiser has been removed from the platform, all donors have been refunded, and Roda Osman has been banned from using the platform for any future fundraisers.”
Police said that Osman’s account was not consistent during their investigation. During the initial interaction with responding officers on Sept. 3, she stuck with the original story that she was attacked after rejecting the man.
She informed them that the suspect could have been her Uber driver, whom she accused of being linked to human trafficking and attempted to kidnap her, according to charging documents obtained by the outlet. Her friend, who was visiting from out of town, was with her during the…
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