Video shows white woman confronting Black woman for laughing too loud at the Gym
“I’m so sorry,” the woman recording said. “Are you OK?”
“Yes, you scared the crap out of me,” the other woman said.
“I can’t hear you because I have my headphones in,” the woman behind the camera said.
The woman recording explains to the white woman that she didn’t notice that she “did anything” and that the room is empty, so there’s an echo, which may have caused her laughter to seem louder.
“I can’t help how I laugh. I am sorry,” the woman behind the camera said. “I didn’t mean anything behind it.”
The white woman grabs her hat, keys, other things and begins to leave the gym.
“I am not complaining about how you laugh or the way you laugh or whatever but have consideration for other people,” the white woman said. “Respect, Honey. You’re in a gym.”
The woman recording follows the other woman as she goes outside of what seems to be a housing complex.
“Stop because I am going to call the cops on you,” the white woman said.
“You’re very disrespectful, Sweetheart. Very disrespectful, and I am calling the police,” she added.
A news commentator Rashad Richey posted the video on his YouTube channel on Aug. 21 where it has been viewed almost 200,000 times and garnered over 4,500 comments. Richey says the woman behind the camera is Black. Some people have accused the white woman of overacting.
“The Black woman was way too apologetic,” Jay Steve wrote under the YouTube video.
“Karen was already nervous about being in a room alone with a Black person, which is why she is so jumpy to be scared by a laugh,” wrote YouTube user Joyfullydreaded wrote.