White ‘Office Karen’ Threatens to Call Security on Black Woman Using Buffalo Law Firm Restroom Before Stunning Turnaround

• A confrontation at a New York law firm went viral on TikTok
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An “office Karen” has been criticized for footage in which she calls security on a black woman for using the restroom at the office building where they both work.

The targeted woman posted a video last week of the unpleasant encounter in the office of a law firm in Buffalo, New York.

The woman, who goes by the username @top-cat716, recorded herself as she exited a bathroom in the building which she appeared to have accessed without issue.

But as she walks out, a white woman in the lobby, who appears to be waiting for her, begins to speak.

“May I ask who you report to so I can call the law firm?” » asks the woman.

The woman filming asks why it’s a problem that she used that bathroom, to which she is told, “Because you have to stay in the bathroom upstairs.”

“Why do I have to stay on my floor? Because of what?’ » replies the employee.

It appears that both women work for the law firm on different floors of the building.

“Why don’t you stay on your floor?” asked the white woman.

“I can use any bathroom I want. This is the law firm where I work,” the woman replied as she continued the recording.

The other woman then says she’s going to call security, before choosing to go down and make a report in person.

“Please contact security. I work here. You look stupid,” @Top_cat716 called down the hallway after her.

Viewers of the video, viewed 850,000 times, gave their support to the woman arrested.

Some encouraged her to continue using the bathroom on that floor.

Others wondered who named the other employee “bathroom police”?

Since spring 2020, recordings of white women confronting black people for what sometimes appears to be an arbitrary or inconsequential reason have become a popular genre of online content.

These so-called “Karens” are meant to illustrate the larger societal problem of white people – and particularly women – antagonizing black people by accusing them of petty or trumped-up offenses and using the opportunity to call law enforcement. law enforcement.