A white security guard at a Target was caught on video punching a black woman in the face after she asked for reparations from employees.
That’s the “sexy” description of the incident. RedState readers will not be surprised to learn there is a lot more to the story.
The security video was captured last October at a Target in Blue Ash, Ohio. Customer Karen Ivery headed to the checkout with more $1000 in groceries. She proceeded to ask the cashier to summon a manager, saying she wanted to talk about her grocery bill and the store offering to cover it as “reparations.”
The New York Post reviewed the police report, which shows the cashier alleging that Ivery “brought up reparations several times during their brief encounter before the manager arrived.” According to the police report, Ivery became aggressive, “berating” the manager about reparations and privilege.
When speaking with the manager, the customer first asked for reparations and grew angry as she walked “aggressively” toward the manager, according to the report.
“Ivery kept berating her about reparations and her privileged life,” the report alleges as the patron kept walking toward the manager.
Loss prevention officer Zach Cotter eventually intervened, asking Ivery to leave the store. That’s when the disgruntled woman turned on Cotter, screaming at him and following him to his office. In the video, posted to The Daily Mail, Cotter can be seen entering his office and attempting to close the door behind him. Ivery is then seen pushing the door open and confronting Cotter.
That’s when Cotter, 28, punches Ivery, 37, directly in the mouth. The woman’s head snaps back and she immediately falls to the floor.
In bodycam footage from an officer at the scene, Mr Cotter said: ‘I told her she needed to back up or leave. She started charging at me.
‘I came all the way back into my office, into an enclosed space, and I hit her in the face. I have it all on video.’
After being asked if she is OK by the officer, Ms Ivery replied: ‘Physically I am OK. Emotionally I am very, very angry.’
Ivery went on to claim she was simply trying to prompt a “larger conversation” about reparations with the manager. Oddly, no one in the Target that day seemed keen to engage in a “larger conversation” about a controversial political issue while they were stocking up on toilet paper.
Later in the bodycam video, when she is asked by an officer about the incident, she said: ‘I was asking the cashier to ‘reach out to her manager so we could have a larger conversation about how money works, and how provision works, and how it’s been working in our community in a very wrong way.’
Ivery told police this was her “Rosa Parks moment.” However, police say it was obvious from the security footage that “Ivery was the aggressor.”
The woman spent 24 hours in confinement and fined $110 for Disorderly Conduct.
Apparently Target did not find Ms.Ivery’s argument for grocery reparations moving. Karen demanded to speak to the manager…instead, she talked to the hand.
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