Another day, another “Karen.”
This time, a video caught a “Walmart Karen” falsely accusing a black man of stealing her son’s phone.
On Monday, a black man named Ja’Shear Bryant posted a Facebook video of an unfortunate confrontation he had with a woman identified as Liz Rodriguez at a Moreno Valley Walmart.
The video shows Rodriguez in the Walmart parking lot, looking upset while holding her cellphone to her ear. While the recorded video does not show the beginning of their interaction, Bryant claims the woman falsely accused him of stealing her young child’s phone and called the police on him.
Bryant said Rodriguez was staring at him in the store, right around the time her son’s phone seemingly disappeared. He explained that the woman had tracked the phone and determined it was located somewhere in the parking lot near his car and confronted him.
“She runs up to me and says, ‘Excuse me, you have my son’s phone?’ I pull my phone out and tell her I do not. … The reason I’m not leaving is because I don’t have the phone. That’s why I’m not leaving,” Bryant recalled.
“I know I’m Black with tattoos, so she automatically assumes I have it,” Bryant stated in the video.
The woman is overheard telling Bryant that they’re going to “fix this” and wait for the police to arrive as he continues to deny having the device.
Since the video has gone viral, Rodriguez, seen in the video wearing a “Kaiser Permanente” shirt, is now under investigation by the healthcare company that released a statement about her recorded antics.
“Thank you for sharing this,” the company said in response to a tweet featuring the clip. “This video has been brought to our attention, and we are actively investigating it. The conduct in this video does not in any way reflect the views or beliefs of Kaiser Permanente.”
