Imagine if a group of young white guys surrounded a pregnant black lady and tried to take the bike, which she had a receipt for, and treated her like that.

Don’t forget she was suspended from her job over this, and it took a high-powered attorney threatening litigation to help her get back to work!

Harassing a pregnant woman... pure trash.

Imagine getting treating like this and then getting treated like a racist by the media. Poor lady.

Sarah was tired. Six months pregnant, just finished a 12 hour shift. The teenagers were jackasses.

These teens are wrong. They should be banned from the App.

The fact they stopped covering the story in the news tells us that your analysis is spot on and the conclusion pretty much everyone else came to as well.

Sarah Jane was very pregnant and just finished a 12 hour shift! I've never been pregnant but I've worked some very long shifts were I was on the verge of tears by the time I got home just from sheer exhaustion! Used to be that failing to offer your seat to a pregnant woman was considered poor upbringing. Now it's acceptable to bully a pregnant woman trying to rent an electric bike to get home after a long shift. Sarah Jane Comrie is judged insincere/guilty because she cried. Alice Lynne Chamberlain judged guilty (if killing her infant daughter she claimed was taken by a dingo, which turned out to be true) because she didn't cry. Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.

I never bought the story that a lone pregnant woman walks up to 4 black guys to start a fight ! People who bought that story are detached from reality !

Seems clear to me. When a rental has been returned, it becomes available for rent. Those boys were in the wrong, and lied to compound matters. As for the reaction on " social media ", we see yet again that a short video segment that doesn't reflect the entirety of the situation is used to create a narrative that is false, yet satisfying to a certain crowd.

Dr. Grande is a breath of fresh air in a less than healthy social society.

People can claim someone is racist and they lose everything these days. It’s given certain people a lot of entitlement.

She was an easy target, no way they would have done this to a large male, of any color!

When a mother defends a rotten son who mistreats women, she’s failed at life. How did the victim’s husband and parents feel seeing that? Anybody stupid enough to believe a petite, heavily pregnant woman would ever try to take anything from a group of men is so stupid there’s nothing available to compare them with with. That includes the hospital administrators who suspended her from work. I don’t believe in bullying by using victimhood or that words are violence. That being said, “Karen” almost always, when used by other races, is meant to insult and demean white women whenever we say or do anything they don’t approve of, which is whenever we open our mouths. Most people thought, against all logic, that she was the criminal. 12 hour shift, exhausted. “Oh. Her tears are fake.” Those men should have been arrested. I hope she sues her employer. The punks who harassed her to publicly degrade and humiliate her for laughs, are probably judgment proof. If the racial situation were reversed, those men would be facing federal charges for a hate crime, which this was. They went after her only because of her race. Why else? They wouldn’t have had anything fun to post if they harassed a pregnant woman of their race.

Every white woman who speaks up has been labeled a Karen. She was 6 months pregnant and berated by these young men who stopped her from moving freely. She needed helped!

There used to be a time in our society when young men went out of there way to help pregnant women...

I would also say that Sarah also showed incredible grace towards those kids and didnt blame or bad mouth them thru this whole fiasco. However the kids and their family continued to badmouth and vilified her even after they were proven to be lying.

This case was a particularly interesting study because as more and more evidence came out absolving Sarah it showed the extent of mental gymnastics some people will employ just to avoid admitting they were wrong on the internet.

From what i recall of this incident Sarah's employer, Bellvue Hospital, also maligned her reputation by putting out a statement that her actions "did not align with their values."

The first honest, accurate, and complete account of this situation that I have come across!

The world is so weird at the moment..the whole "Karen" slur is now just a way to silence people . .it's pathetic

There was plenty of bikes available those guys wanted a free bike. Only in bizarro world would a pregnant woman attack a group of men.

Very well judged Dr G ! This poor woman was exhausted & frazzled . Two words that I’m getting so sick of are Karen and Narcissist , they are overused 💜

Of course before having the facts the MSM jumped on this right away & started calling her a racist Karen. Which by the way is a racist term. I last heard she was suing MSM & if this is true, I hope she wins money. Her Family was harassed & threatened because of this. She's not even going after the teens. One of the boys did say just give her the bike. I'm glad one of teens had some decency.

Horrible how everyone attacked her online and assumed she was in the wrong before knowing the facts.

They were squatting on the bikes. If you look, they stayed at that park another 45 minutes after the pregnant woman pedaled off on the NONelectric bike. Just like her doctor told her not to do

Sarah didn’t look as though she intended to cry, she looked overwhelmed. She worked 12 hours, was heavily pregnant, wanted to go home and was basically being assaulted for selfish reasons. She was later suspended from her job and got it back only after threatening the hospital with a lawsuit.

I cannot imagine bullying a pregnant woman like that at any age. These kids have zero respect so they should be given zero respect!

She is 100% innocent and the actual victim in this situation.

Sarah is lucky she got out of that situation without being a victim of violence.

Automatically labeling someone a "Karen" without any context is very similar to automatically labeling a young black man as a thug for no reason. We humans have a bad habit of thinking on autopilot.

Agreed. This incident was stupidly atrocious and atrociously stupid! The only racism was the game played by the teenagers who were trying to use racism as a bludgeoning tool to get their own way. I'm pregnant right now and I cannot imagine how frightened she must've been, especially when that one young guy touched her belly. All the racist pearl-clutching needs to stop. Her receipt said it all. I'm looking forward to the lawsuits her attorney has started initiated. The media amplifying the lie was a huge part of the problem.

Michael let the bike get away from him when he turned it back in making it available for someone else to rent. Not what he planned but it happened. Then he decided to be a bully and refused to let Sarah take it. What’s worse he started recording the incident midway through, manipulating the story to make it look like Sarah was being a racist thief. Even now that all the evidence has been made public Michael persists with his false narrative. He should be ashamed of what he did and for orchestrating a rabid social media attack on Sarah.

No amount of apologizing, groveling or free things will ever be enough for certain people. They view any type of guilt(for things we weren't even alive for) or kindness as weakness and exploit it for whatever they can.

I see a Dr. Grande video, I click!

You don't get to just hog it indefinitely. I'm picturing gym equipment. Some jerk trying to stake claim between sets by parking himself there and not sharing the equipment, or worse, just sitting on it and using their phone, and no one else can use it. For hours. Enough of these entitled jerks with no social skills.

Sarah was in the right. The teens assumed they could hang on to a public bike they had relinquished but once it's docked it's not theirs anymore. Nate the Lawyer did a really in depth analysis of this story. He's a man of color and he says Sarah was the one in the right. After she paid for it one of the teens, Michael I think, pushed the bike and docked it again. Nate says technically it could be considered theft.

Good manners and common human decency would dictate that any one of these young men would voluntarily offer “their” bike to a pregnant woman. Everything has become ass-backwards when she is portrayed as the villain.

They should all be ashamed of themselves for messing with a pregnant woman who has just worked a long, long shift.

Young people for the most part seem to feel so entitled! I was waiting for a city bus and it was very hot. I'm 73 and walked 2 blocks to the bus stop. Bad knees and unforgiving hips. The bus wasn't there yet and there were young people taking up the bench that was available. I was hoping one would volunteer to let me sit down 😢. That didn't happen so I asked politely if I could sit as I was almost ready to collapse. One gave me a seat but very begrudgingly. I got angry stares from those young people...like how dare I! I raised 5 boys who are fine grown men. They are polite and respectful. What has happened to this generation 😮

She was probably also worried about the theft scam that is going on around here. She would be responsible for around $1k if the bike is heavily damaged or stolen. People will hang around and watch for easy targets, then run up and grab a bike as someone unlocks it and take of with it. Then they scrap it out for the parts. They can get good money for the battery packs, motors, assemblies, and even a few bucks for the frames.

The app shouldn't alllow another rental from the exact same dropoff point for like, half an hour.

What a scary situation for her! Those kids should be punished, we can't have roving bands of young adults acting like this, that is outrageous behaviour.

Bellview hospital is always target of these kinds of people. There was one time I was at a dermatologist waiting for my turn and then comes some guy who sat next to me and began to do weird noises and talking to nobody but the air. I stood up and change my seat and he became upset and very aggressive because I change my seat and that was disrespectful to him. Security had to come in and take the man out.

What disgusting thuggish behavior by the young men- their behaviour is unacceptable, their arrogance is displayed in their ignorance… ie filming themselves harassing and threatening a pregnant healthcare worker.

Firstly, your cadence and smooth tone throughout are exceedingly well done. Secondly, you have provided the most rational and consistent analysis of this repulsive event; even though most already knew it was a juicy imitation.

The timeline as shown presents a young man that is inconsiderate of others that need to use transport sevices such as renting bikes, even if the person in question is a pregnant lady in distress. It has nothing to do with race, or a theft, he's just stupid and mean. If I were the mother, I would not have defended him.

Their behavior toward the pregnant woman is inexcusable. The media treated this woman shamefully and tried to make this a racial incident. We have no free press.

The young man's sister -- though when I went to school, journalistic integrity required that a 17 y.o. be referred to as a boy and not a man -- anyway, the young man's sister made multiple videos vilifying the victim, the woman, and she (the sister) even posted proof that her brother was lying. I honestly don't understand why this kid wasn't arrested. He did wrong. He did cross a line. I don't care what you think of the woman, he behavior wasn't illegal and his was. You can't use physical force and intimidation against someone because you feel like it, even when they are not doing anything wrong.

There was a time when a young man would give up his seat on a train or subway for a woman - especially a pregnant woman. Now everyone is ready to “throw down” over anything. What happened to human decency and gentleman like behavior? 😢

It's worth noting that one of young men gave up his E-Bike to Ms. Comrie. He was the gentleman and I wish him well in life. The rest were thugs and I expect will not go far.

Hi Dr. Grande! Could you consider doing a video on Larry Walters, aka “Lawnchair Larry”? This is an individual who tethered 43 helium weather balloons to his Lawnchair in July 1982 and took a 45 minute flight into the sky. He took a parachute, pellet gun, a camera, sandwiches, and beer and rose to 16,000 feet. He caused a blackout on his descent and was arrested once he touched the ground again. He later ended his own life in 1993.

I wonder if Sarah has sued anyone for defamation - the news media had a field day with her before the details came out. Really horrible stuff.

I donated to her gofundme when this happened bc I was disgusted by seeing the video. Just the energy those guys were giving off was repulsive enough for me to donate to her cause. Too bad some ppl call things bc of skin color. They were clearly targeting & harassing her. Sick!

Why didn't the boys swap the bikes among themselves when resetting the clock instead of waiting and taking the identical unit?

What happened to young men giving up their seats to young women or disabled or pregnant women.

Who else is eager to hear Dr. Grande’s analysis of Lori’s speech at sentencing today?!?!

Dr. Grande finally analyzing City Bike Karen incident. Now I trust we'll get the best analysis of what actually happened

Was busy firing the grill and drinking some Yuengling with a buddy of mine on a nice cool New England evening, usually I watch the Doc's video ASAP. I'm going to tell you a little of my experience with a certain group of people. As an immigrant, Cambodian ethnicity, my family survived and fled the Khmer Rouge genocide. When we arrive, I was 17 days old back in 1981, we were put in the ghetto. High crime neighborhood surrounded by a group that I won't mention. The selective group, currently the very privilege people, made life hell for us. They broke our window and threw fireworks and smoke bombs in our house that caused fires and required police and fire trucks. Imagine surviving a war torn country, one of the worst genocide in human history, only to hear explosions inside your own home. In 1986, I experienced my first face to face with racism, I was in kindergarten and I was terrified to go to school because I was bullied by a certain group. They would surround me in the school yard, push me around and call me all types of names that I ended up hating school and would act out. And it wasn't just me, it was all the Asian kids that had to face bullying. Both my brothers were older and they had to drop out because of the constant assault against them. Going to school and getting jumped because of their race. I cringe when I hear about these people crying racism when I had to face some of the worst racism from said people. My parents had bricks thrown at them, we was shot with bb guns walking out the Asian market. I was 5 years old and my parents had to shield me as they fired shots from their porch. Asians started forming gangs and it put all Asians on the police's radar. I couldn't walk to the bus stop without being stopped and questioned. These privilege people created a lot of problems for us and yet they love to pull the victim card. I'm 42 now, even though I had many friends who were of a particular race, I don't think I can forget some of the experiences I've faces. C-19 made it a little harder again for me to go place, especially back in the city I grew up in. I get constant dirty looks from the professional victim card players that I avoid going to the city. Life is a little better now in a "small town" away from them and away from the capital city. While they burn our flag and say how much they hate this country for something that ended in 1865, I have one hanging proudly in front of my house and on the bumper of my car. Funny thing is, my dad admire MLK. Read so many books about him. He would sit there and tell me how great MLK was and how he led the Civil Rights movement. Sadly, MLK is probably rolling in his grave right now with how the people who strongly fighting for is acting. RIP dad. Have a good night everyone.

I couldn't agree with you more. There are plenty of Karens out there but this poor woman was being bullied, and what's worse some in the media supported the bullies.

Hearing her side and the reality of what those young men were doing sheds a whole different light on this. These kids were trying to game the system bc and it backfired.

Wow. I guess I'm a dinosaur 🦕. since i grew up in an era when the bike would've been given to the pregnant woman *even if she was mistaken* about who rented it. I've sometimes foraged into 'Karen' videos and almost always regret it. Often it seems the person behind the camera is the actual Karen. On another note, youtube supposedly has strict guidelines against bullying, yet 'Karen' vids are uploaded on the hour to humiliate, harass, and intimidate people who may be simply responding to provocations by another party. I'm deeply disturbed by America's forms of entertainment these days. Public pillary was done away with for a reason! Aa for the young 'men' in thos incident - dare i say they seem 'entitled'? Thank you Dr Grande for an excellent analysis of this. I'm glad you don't seem to allow yourself to be influenced by 'popular' opinion!

Dr Grande, you can get called a "Karen" for just complaining about something, even if there is no sense of danger. If I complain to my daughters that their music is too loud they will call me a Karen. Thankfully, they are joking, but that's how prevalent the trend is.

I have to admit, the first time I saw the video I was against her. It was a good lesson for me to withhold my judgement. In my defense, it did remind me of those videos where some Karens call the police on black people living in the same apartment block, this kind of vibe, but I understand now that she was just in a late stage of her pregnancy, and I was the asshole.

I was not familiar with how e-bike rentals work. Thank you for explaining it. I do know what it feels like to be off a long work shift, being pregnant to boot, and just wanting to get home. She handled the incident the best she could. A person can cry without tears when they are exhausted.

I don't care what color any of the people involved are. Those boys were very disrespectful. I can't belive the mother sided with her son. I would've been so ashamed.

Imagine raising a child that would argue and be rude with a pregnant woman. Note Michael's mother defended him and not his father.

Sarah was clearly the victim here and putting the Karen label on her. The bikes are for public use she clearly had a receipt when she scanned the code. Great work as always Dr. Grande. You never disappoint.

My dream is to see a LEGO Cactus behind Dr. Grande🙌🏾

If i had worked a 12-hour shift whilst 6 months pregnant, i would just want to get home and probably be too tired to cry too.

Why don't we just try to raise gentleman instead of allowing situations like these happening.

the Karen trend is misogyny 101

I remember when E Bikes came out, I thought concept was ripe for issues. Their behaviors were wrong, a bunch of punks. Great analysis again. Thanks Dr G😊💜💛

At 6 months that was not "pretending to cry" she was trying to hold back the tears.

Couldn’t have said it better. I’m sick of the gaslighting

Imagine being pregnant, tired from working many hours and just wanting to go home then this happens.

My friend was a driver and supervisor for the Los Angeles Unified School District for 30 years, and he had to deal with a lot of parents and discipline on the buses. He always told me that the parents were at fault for the problem behavior of the kids. The kids copy the parents.

The reason you start getting charged a fee after 45 minutes is so one person can't hog a bike all day long. So this kid just docks it after 45 minutes but intimidates anyone else who tries to rent it, because he believes it's "his". Color shouldn't matter in this case, he acted like an entitled little brat and a thug at the same time.

Completely agree, Dr. Grande. You were spot on about everything pertaining to this debacle.. Thank you so much for posting the truth. I personally was someone who bought into the teens being "victims," and I will forever be ashamed that I did not do my own research before grabbing my proverbial pitchfork to attack this poor woman. Lesson learned!

Yeah that’s the equivalent of standing in a parking spot to ‘reserve’ it.

Dr. Grande, you left out the part about the hospital she worked for having suspended her when they found out about this incident. She was an employee (Physician's Assistant) with high integrity, yet the hospital chose to believe the teenagers over her. The hospital deserves to be rebuked for that. They should have backed her up.

Wow, Just goes to show, we initialy thought, "Girl, you being karen?" but now with all evidence - Game Changer. Sorry Sarah, you actually are the victim of assult both physically and racially. We hope you receive the justice you deserve. Those Kevins require intervention in order to prevent future bad actions. Good Luck :)

She should press charges. If she rented the bike at 7:24, then they kept her there and shoved the bike back into the docking station, they technically kidnapped her. Felony adult kidnapping charges would be appropriate as well ass defamation. I really hope they get charged.

I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of this case. She was certainly on a impossible situation! Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us, Dr. Grande.❤

I live 2 blocks from this incident. What many don’t know is that we have a big uptick in Citybikes being stolen, sometimes people violently thrown off of them, then used for burglaries, robberies, slashings, and even hit and runs. The city has gone wild with violence and crime. She probably thought they’d steal the bike and she’d have to pay for it and was reacting to that too and thinking about maybe violence erupting while being pregnant, as they started recording, making her seem confused and awkward, and that might’ve been the case, but then they thought of a different idea, to capitalize on the Karen trend. I’d like to see the history of the kids, discipline, rap sheets etc. Hopefully they’re just annoying kids and not bandits like so many in the city (of various ethnic groups) please don’t make my comment be about race 💙🙏🏻💙

My eldest son is almost seventeen. If he didn’t give up a bike for a pregnant woman, I would have failed as a mother.

I’m 64 years old. I was born before the civil rights act. I have seen many acts of racial insensitivity in my time. But I don’t believe racism is the answer to everything, any more than sexism or ageism. I’m glad that no one, including the teenagers, was hurt

I'm sure these upstanding boys were working while riding bikes for 5 hrs(at least) straight.

IT DOESN'T matter what color they are.If a group of pink,purple,and green striped people,exhibiting threatening behavior, comes toward you with less than good intensions,you bet you better yell for help.

I agree one million percent Dr Grande. 👍

GANGING UP ON A PREGNANT WOMAN WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?

Citibike needs to update their system so that if the same user docks and then quickly starts a new rental, the billing time continues without reset.

A point most people missed. Citibike released ride data each month. The ride data shows the bike rack was empty when the kids arrived. The way the scam works is you get the ebike at the classic bike rate if no classics bikes are left in the rack. The kids were hogging the bikes and only leaving when no classic bikes were left to get the reduced rate. However just after the kids arrived a classic bike was docked at the docking station. The kids would know not be able to rent the ebikes at the classic bike rate until that bike was removed from the bike rack. You also missed that at the start you see Sarah switch off her ear buds, making it unlikely that she had a conversation with them like she claimed.

I had a similar situation happen to me when I was in San Francisco. Three of us had hailed a cab after a music event. My friend got into the front seat and I and my friend were getting into the back seat when a woman opened the opposite door and climbed in the back seat quickly, she started telling us to get out of her cab. Soon after, her boyfriend or husband arrived and the confrontation started. The cab driver did nothing and was completely neutral and left the argument. We left the scene and got another cab right away rather than wasting our time and energy on the argument. We just thought is was really weird and rude that the couple was so forceful and determined to get our cab. It wasn't really a busy event or evening and it seem silly that the couple acted like this. I guess it was just surprising to really run into this sort of aggression over a cab. I would think that the cab driver would have told us if we were in the wrong and we certainly would have done as he asked.

I live in NYC. It is so discouraging to witness young people treating a pregnant woman with such obvious contempt and sense of entitlement. Since when is this type of behavior appropriate? She had just left her job (which was clear based on her uniform and her need for a bike) while it is common knowledge that those who work in hospitals tend to work long shifts. If we make it acceptable to disregard pregnant women in such a way then there is no hope for any sense of community or cohesiveness. Even more reprehensible is the online reaction and mob justice that led to her doxxing. It seems to me that the online reaction to the melé will make it less likely for the minors involved to reflect on their actions in a way that allows them grow from their mistake.

Your assessments are genuine and just Dr. Grande. Another excellent and balanced summation.

Once you dock the bike, it's available. You're right on the money Doc.

I would always give priority to a pregnant nurse, we are lucky there are still nurses out there willing to look after us...

Wow, now this story is clear. Thanks for this explanation. Sarah did nothing wrong. Michael needs to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. An apology to Sarah from the young men would go a long long way for everyone involved.

Prior to Dr Grande, I never used the terms “Inculpatory” & “ exculpatory” evidence…..but now I dream about them!