What happens when a white, pregnant physician assistant who just left a 12-hour shift in a New York City hospital is accosted and has her Citi Bike hijacked by a group of troublemakers who are black? The woman is put on leave by her hospital.
That’s not a bad joke. It’s yet another real-life example that proves viral out-of-context videos, manufactured racial animosity, and Big Tech and corporate media’s willingness to amplify it pose a grave danger to society.
On May 12, five people surrounded a woman who had just paid for and mounted a bike rental.
“This is not your bike,” the group insisted between laughs.
Despite the woman’s repeated calls for “help,” onlookers can be seen standing idly by as the throng closed in around the pregnant lady. At one point, the woman grabbed the man’s phone and yelled for him to get off of her because “you’re hurting my fetus.” Instead, he kept his hands wrapped around her body and on the bike’s handlebars while his friends heckled her.
“I’m not touching you! You’re putting your stomach on my hand,” the man said.
The woman was reduced to tears, which the group claimed were “fake,” before eventually taking the advice of a man in scrubs and choosing a different rental to ride home.
It’s safe to say that in an upstanding, civilized society, this scenario never should have occurred, much less been publicized. But this is 2023 in America. Everyone
