WATCH: New York Healthcare Worker 'Karen' Suing After Biased Video Attempts To Paint Incident Against Her, The Media Will Be Held Accountable

Following immense online backlash against a “Karen” New York City hospital worker who was confronted and accused of taking a Citi Bike from a young black man, a lawyer for the health care worker has provided receipts showing she was the rightful user of the Citi Bike.

The video, which has amassed tens of millions of views on social media, shows the hospital worker calling for help after the young man places his hand on the Citi Bike, preventing the worker from being able to use it. The young man claims in the video, “This is not your bike,” saying that he instead was the one who rented the bike.

The woman continues to plead with the man to get off the bike while his other friends surround them. Despite her insistence, however, the man does not budge and continues to claim that the bike belongs to him. The female healthcare worker began to cry in the video, before being told by another hospital worker to rent another bike. The woman then got off the bike to rent another one and was mocked by the men surrounding her for shedding tears, saying, “How you stopped crying? Not a tear came down, miss.”

Social media was quick to blast the Bellevue hospital worker, claiming her to be racist for trying to steal the bike from the black men. The woman was also accused of weaponizing her tears to paint the young black man as a threat. Her employer even issued a statement, saying the incident that occurred was “disturbing,” placing the worker on leave. NYC Health + Hospitals stated that the worker would remain on leave until a pending review of the incident was completed.


After the media was quick to place blame on the woman, a lawyer representing the six-months-pregnant worker provided receipts to the New York Post revealing she was the rightful user of the bike. The lawyer, named Justin Marino, gave a statement that provided two Citi Bike receipts from the day of the incident, May 12th. 

The first receipt shows a bike being taken out but then relocked shortly after, which Marino says is the bike that was seen in the video. The lawyer claimed, “One or more individuals in that group physically pushed her bike (with her on it) back into the docking station, causing it to relock.”

The second receipt is the bike she then rented after being heckled by the group to find another bike. The Citi Bike receipts were just minutes apart. 

The video also showed the young man blocking the QR code on the bike, which prevented the Bellevue hospital worker from re-renting the bike. “In blocking the QR code, this individual’s arm was touching my client’s pregnant stomach, a condition of which she had made them aware,” he added. “Throughout this time and for the remainder of the video, roughly five individuals were telling her to get off the bike and heckling her.”

Marino noted how the video shared on social media shared important context to the situation, as the 90-second clip only previews part of the confrontation after it already began. 

Marino states that after the pregnant worker finished working a 12-hour shift, she got onto an open bike “which no individuals were on or touching” and rented it through the Citi Bike app. As she began to back the bike out of the charging station, she was approached by a group of five who began claiming the bike already belonged to them. 

The attorney also announced on Fox News that his client and him will be pursuing defemation suits against those who defamed his client in the media.

The fallout of this video shows the unfortunate reality where people are quick to make claims of racism without knowing the facts of the case. For people to so quickly throw hate at this pregnant hospital worker, who was flustered after finishing a 12-hour shift and being heckled by five men in the streets, is simply sad. 

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