America has been discussing for some time now, as a country, the idea of “reparations” — the notion that some measure of recompense is to be made for injustices both real and perceived to black people in the past and present.
It can’t just be limited to slavery, of course, since no one who was an actual slave in the antebellum United States is still alive. Many proponents argue that limiting it to the descendants of slaves will do; others say it won’t go far enough. Their argument: Every black person has suffered some kind of injustice and deserves to be compensated for it.
Now, granted, I’m not sure how these kinds of reparations would even work or where we would draw the line and stop. I wouldn’t even know where to start.
I do know where not to start, however: Target.
Regrettably, Karen Ivery did not reach the same conclusions — and it’ll leave her with a spot on her criminal record.
According to a Tuesday report in the New York Post, police in Blue Ash, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, say Ivery demanded $1,000 in merchandise free of charge for “reparations” in an October incident and was placed under arrest after she followed a loss prevention officer into his office and physically cornered him.
CCTV footage showed the Target security employee punching her in the face.
The confrontation began after Ivery repeatedly talked to a cashier about “reparations” regarding her bill.
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After what was described in the police report as a brief encounter, a manager approached the two. The report said Ivery first asked for reparations and then began “aggressively” walking in the direction of the manager.
“Ivery kept berating her about reparations and her privileged life,” the report said.
Zach Cotter, the store’s loss prevention officer, then stepped in and told Ivery to 1) chill out and 2) leave the store, according to the report.
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Instead, she began turning her wrath on Cotter — then, when he retreated, followed him back to his office. When he tried to shut the door, she kept him from doing so by force and, according to Cotter’s own words on the police bodycam video, cornered him “in an enclosed space.”
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“And I hit her in the face,” he told police.
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