New York Blogger Calls 911 On Black Health Care Worker, Allegedly Receives Threats After Video Goes Viral

A blogger was caught on camera calling 911 on a black health care worker. The incident took place in Upper West Side, New York, on May 25.

Speaking to the New York Daily News, 30-year-old Jana’e Brown said she was walking outside her building after getting back from hospital when the encounter took place. Svitlana Flom, a 34-year-old style blogger who is nine months pregnant, accused Brown of smoking pot and called 911 several times.

“I didn’t know who she was. She’s just a random person, telling me I can’t sit here, telling me I can’t be here,” Brown said. She immediately took out her phone and recorded Flom's actions.

In the video, uploaded to Instagram by Brown, Flom can be seen asking a 911 operator to send someone to the scene.

Claiming that Brown was “attacking” her, Flom told the operator, “It’s impossible. She’s playing the black card and just, like, it’s horrible,”

“She was calling me a b---h. She came up ... threatening me and my kids. I’m sitting here shaking and breathless,” she tells the officer.

Officers arrived at the scene but took no action.

“Some people think they’re more privileged because of the color of their skin or their economic status or whatever. But that’s not how I am,” Brown told the newspaper.

Brown added that she doesn’t regret standing up to Flom.

“You just gotta always stand in your truth. You can’t lose your cool, you can’t lose character because that’s what they want,” she said. Brown has since hired a legal counsel.

Meanwhile, recalling the encounter, Flom said, “She was harassing me, calling me all kinds of names and profiling me. She was playing me. Like I’m another white racist woman, a ‘Karen’ who came over to her and started everything.”

After the video went viral, Flom allegedly received “threatening text messages from unknown numbers” following which she filed a complaint. However, the officers didn’t take any further action.

“People are calling me threatening me, saying my kids should die,” she told the newspaper.