Receipts present the hospital employee accused in viral video of making an attempt to steal a Black man's rental bike paid for it herself, lawyer says

• A girl accused in a viral video of making an attempt to take a rental bike from a Black man paid for the bike herself, her lawyer says.
• The legal professional supplied Citi Bike receipts to Insider saying that they show it was her bike to take. 
• Video of the incident drew hundreds of thousands of views on-line as some condemned her response as “racist.”

The legal professional for the white New York Metropolis hospital employee who was accused of making an attempt to take a rental bicycle from a Black man in a now-viral video says that the girl paid for the bike herself — and has the receipts to show it. 

A receipt shared with Insider reveals cost for a Citi Bike on the app on the night of Might 12 in Manhattan; the bicycle was re-locked to its dock a minute later with no cost logged.

The Citi Bike identification quantity within the viral video is identical because the one on the receipt and the placement matches the view seen within the video.

“It was her bike,” lawyer Justin Marino stated in an interview with Insider on Thursday.

Marino stated that bike was pushed again into its docking station after a younger Black man and his mates advised the girl — a pregnant NYC Well being + Hospitals/Bellevue staffer — that the person had already paid for a similar bike. 

“She had reserved it, after which they pushed the bike again into the docking station, stopping her from taking it out once more,” Marino advised Insider. 

One other receipt supplied to Insider reveals cost for a second Citi Bike taken from the identical docking station one minute after the primary bike was re-locked. That receipt additionally reveals a 25-minute journey that Marino says was his consumer’s trip residence after the incident. 

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“Everybody who’s accused her of a criminal offense of stealing the bike — it is outrageous, and it does not make any sense,” stated Marino. 

Within the viral video, the scrubs-wearing lady appeared to begin crying after repeatedly screaming out loud for “assist” and accusing the Black man of placing her fetus at risk.

The video was considered hundreds of thousands of occasions as critics on social media accused her of racism. Civil rights legal professional Ben Crump stated the girl “tried to weaponize her tears to color this man as a risk.”

Marino known as his consumer a healthcare “hero” who labored throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, however stated folks have made her out to be a “racist villain” due to “a tiny snippet of a video.”

The girl was positioned on go away from her job following the incident, which NYC Well being + Hospitals — New York Metropolis’s public hospital system — known as “disturbing.” The hospital stated it’s investigating what occurred.

“I am hoping the employer won’t violate her rights and can do what’s proper and produce her again sooner or later,” Marino stated, including that his consumer plans to sue “in opposition to people and media organizations who defamed her.”