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A white woman caught on video falsely accusing a Black man of assaulting her while riding an NJ Transit train had her claims quickly shut down by fellow passengers.
In the video, a woman appeared to be sprawled out with her feet propped up on the seat across from her. The woman refused to move her feet from the seat she didn't pay for, which was next to a man trying to work on his laptop. Video shows the man trying to gently nudge the woman's feet off the seat next to him when she launched her assault claim.
“Oh my god, that’s assault. F*** you!” the woman yelled. “You f---ing assaulted me.”
Passengers immediately chimed in to defend the man.
“You were sleeping and you wouldn’t move your feet,” one rider explained.
When a security guard arrived to investigate the incident, the woman tried to garner sympathy, saying she was "tired" and needed to go home.
“Too bad!” one bystander said as multiple passengers told her to “get off the train.”
The woman accused another white passenger of being a "Karen" for not backing up her assault claim before exiting at the next train stop.
“The entitlement is beyond crazy!!!” an Instagram user captioned the video. “Throughout history, the tears, the accusations, and the dramatic trigger words used by women like you have gotten Black people killed, locked up, and punished for things they didn’t do. When you use a word like ‘assault’ for a situation that was nowhere near that, it’s NOT just dramatic, it’s DANGEROUS.”
The user noted that in another era, “a man could have been lynched over the kind of language you chose to use." She urged the woman to “stop weaponizing your fear and your tears,” because “your words can cost someone their freedom or their life.”
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