

Another available bike can be seen in the video.Ĭrump claimed that the viral video showed that the group of young men were endangered by a pregnant woman at whom they were laughing. The video went viral, with many, including notorious race-baiting attorney Ben Crump, suggesting that this pregnant nurse would leave work after a 12-hour shift and try to steal Citi-bike from a group of young men though there were likely other bikes available for rent on the rack.

The brief video, which shows the nurse sitting on the bike while a man laughs at her and tries to take it from her, only shows a portion of the alleged incident, and it shows the diminutive pregnant woman sitting on the bike.Ī man in a t-shirt that reads "childish" keeps his hand on the bike, while he and his friends laugh and say "you're not getting the bike." Later, the nurse's attorneys said that she paid for the bike, removed it from the locking mechanism, and got on it, only to have the young men then demand it from her. The video was used as a cry of racism, with NBC writing "many social media users pointing out the risk placed on the young lack men being accused of wrongdoing in situations involving white women." She was put on leave from her job despite there being no indication, other than the video, that she had done anything to warrant a suspension. Meanwhile, vitriol, anger, hatred, racial slurs, were all slung at this woman.
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Twitter's new Community Notes function, however, came into play when users started pointing out the absolute absurdity of the story. The question among people who actually know how to think began to be why a pregnant nurse, exhausted after a 12-hour shift at a Bellvue Hospital, would try to steal a bicycle from a group of young men. The immediate assumption was that the viral video showed a pregnant woman attempting to steal a bike from a group of young men. A nurse who is 6 months pregnant was put on leave from her job with a New York hospital this week after she was accused in a TikTok video of trying to steal a Citi-bike from a group of young black men.
