Tag Archives: Karen

Hartford’s CBS News affiliate reports: The woman at the center of a viral video accusing a Navy sailor of wearing a fake uniform was arrested. Berlin police on Friday identified the suspect as 45-year-old Lori Desjardins of Southington. Channel 3 also learned on Friday that Desjardins worked for CVS Health. “This individual is no longer employed by the company,” said …

The Hartford Courant reports: A video on TikTok showing a woman shrieking and cursing at a man in a Berlin pizzeria has prompted a criminal investigation, with police saying the victim was a Navy sailor attacked for no apparent reason. At one point, the woman appears to slap the man — who is off camera — and yelling “this is …

The New Jersey Advance reports: The Millburn Police Department is investigating the reactions of police officers who responded to The Mall at Short Hills last weekend on a report of a dispute between Black and white shoppers. “The Internal Affairs Division is now investigating the matter to evaluate how the officers conducted themselves,” the police department said in a statement, …

Boing Boing reports: While two Tennessee teens were painting a mural to celebrate Pride Month, a homophobic – and racist (of course) – Marjorie Taylor Greene clone marched over with paint cans in her arms. “I’m comin’ over here to paint over your shit,” she said. “I’m sick of hearing all of you. I’m sick of hearing all of you.” …

Portland’s NBC News affiliate reports: The bust of the only Black member of the Lewis and Clark expedition that sits on Mount Tabor was vandalized Tuesday. Videos shared with KGW shows a woman with cans of purple spray paint defacing the base of the statue of York. York was an enslaved member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Corps of …

The Daily Dot reports: Sometimes, the stars align and the perfect villains get their comeuppance. Sometimes, police arrest a “Karen” whose name is literally Karen. That’s what happened when police in Brook Park, Ohio, responded to a call at a Marc’s supermarket about a disorderly woman who refused to wear a mask while shopping. The altercation was caught on the …

The New York Post reports: A woman called 911 for being denied entry into a California pet store because she wasn’t wearing a mask — claiming she has a “religious exemption right and God-given right” that are protected under the Civil Rights Act. Aidan Bearpaw, who works at Bones-N-Scones in Palm Springs, recorded the tense encounter on Sunday and posted …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: An unidentified woman hurled racist, xenophobic remarks at a San Francisco Recreation and Parks employee Sunday, as she cut through ropes blocking off the children’s play area in Dolores Park that has been closed for weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Public outreach coordinator Andrés Patino captured the incident on video and posted the footage …

Yahoo News reports: After a fight over wearing a mask at a DMV went viral earlier in the week, a local Ohio “Karen” is back at it again — this time at Planet Fitness. Anna Peric feels extremely passionately about masks and wants to world to know it. She was filmed berating a Planet Fitness manager because she has limited …

The New York Times reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s decision to charge a white woman with filing a false police report against a Black man in Central Park does not have the support of one key person: the victim himself. The man, Christian Cooper, has not cooperated with the prosecution’s investigation. “On the one hand, she’s already paid a steep …

The New York Post reports: An Arizona woman, dubbed by social media as the latest “Karen,” filmed herself destroying a face mask display inside a Target store over the weekend. In the footage, Melissa Rein Lively, who runs a public relations company in Scottsdale, can be heard going on explosive rant as she points the camera to a display of …

Via press release from the Justice Department: *COVID-19 ALERT: Fraudulent Facemask Flyers* The Department of Justice has been made aware of postings or flyers on the internet regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the use of face masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of which include the Department of Justice’s seal. These postings were not issued by …

“We will get together and do a citizen’s arrest on every single human being that goes against the freedom of choice, OK? You cannot mandate knowing that the mask is killing people. We the people are waking up and we know what a citizen’s arrest is. Because citizen’s arrests are already happening and every single one of you that’s obeying …

The Palm Beach Post reports: Facing an unrelenting crowd of maskless constituents, Palm Beach County commissioners agreed Tuesday to require all residents and visitors to wear facial coverings in buildings where the public is welcome, such as grocery stores and restaurants. “I think this is going to be the most effective pivot point in … suppressing the spread of the …

NPR reports: A black man says he asked a white woman in Central Park to put her dog on a leash. Then, video shows her calling police and telling emergency operators that the man was threatening her and her dog. The woman, who has been identified as Amy Cooper, has apologized. “It was unacceptable. And you know words are just …

NBC News reports: A white woman called the NYPD and accused a black man of threatening her and her dog after an exchange that started when the man asked the woman to leash her dog in Central Park. Christian Cooper captured part of the exchange in a now-viral video that was posted to Twitter by his sister. The woman, later …

The York Daily Record reports: A backlog of Mother’s Day orders led to an altercation outside the East York Red Lobster on Mother’s Day. On Sunday, May 10, a video captured a few Red Lobster employees forcefully ushering a patron outside the restaurant’s main entrance. In the video, the customer demands a refund several times before swinging at an employee. …

Cleveland.com reports: A protester outside the Ohio Statehouse on Friday, upset with what she thought was coronavirus reporting inciting fear, accosted a Columbus television reporter trying to cover the demonstration. The unidentified woman wasn’t wearing a mask and wasn’t keeping six feet of distance between her and NBC4 reporter Adrienne Robbins, who requested more than once that the woman keep …