Source: Twitter / Twitter
If you’re looking for an example of apparent white privilege, you’ve come to the right place.
Amid ongoing debates about the need to teach about race, this seemingly nonstop stream of so-called “Karen” videos – footage of white women exerting their purported moral authority during situations where they lack any – can many times inadvertently provide reasons why such studies are necessary.
In one of the most recent cases of a Karen video, the topic of police responses along racial lines to people in the throes of a mental health crisis is all but unavoidable.
The footage, apparently at an airport bar, shows a white woman drinking minutes before being restrained and arrested by four police officers while she starts rambling incoherently and acting erratically. But then the woman is shown becoming violent, kicking officers and yelling angrily before, strangely enough, demanding one of them to kiss her.
Seconds after she asks why the officer won’t do it – “I’m not sexy enough?” – she is shown spitting directly in his face at point plank range.
When the officer who was spit on doesn’t immediately react, she does it yet again.
Watch for yourselves.
There’s more to the video, but not the “more” that would have likely come if the suspect was Black.
There are countless instances of police officers responding with force, many times lethal, to Black people during mental health crises who did not assault any cops like the white woman in the above Karen video.
Source: ‘Karen’ Video Shows White Woman Kick And Spit On Cop’s Face And Live To Tell About It
