White socialite calls police on black woman sitting on bench
A white socialite has been filmed calling the police on a black woman sitting alone on a bench claiming she was ‘attacking her’ and ‘playing the black card’.
The white woman, who identifies herself as 34-year-old Svitlana Flom while on the phone, tells cops that she was being ‘threatened’ in ‘her neighbourhood’ by an ‘African American woman’. Janae Garcia uploaded footage of the incident to social media and said that Mrs Flom called the police on her ‘multiple times,’ after being approached by her on Friday while sitting down in a public space in New York.
Footage does not show pregnant Mrs Flom – who is married to millionaire former CEO of Jaguar Land Rover Manhattan, Gary Flom – being attacked, as she claimed, and her children are not seen. She then asks Ms Garcia to walk with her to meet the police officers.
Sharing footage of the incident, Ms Garcia wrote: ‘From 6:15pm – 7:31pm this woman, Svitlana Flom, felt the need to not only approach me but call the cops MULTIPLE TIMES ON ME!! She was too “Alarmed” that I was sitting “comfortably” in “her neighborhood!”.’
At one point in the footage, Mrs Flom tells police: ‘She’s filming me, she’s calling me a b****. She came to me and my kids threatening me’.
Ms Garcia, who is not heard using the word b**** in the footage, replies: ‘This is my building, this is my neighbourhood. I’m sitting here by myself trying to enjoy my time by myself and this white woman is making me very uncomfortable’.
Ms Garcia wrote on social media: ‘While giving my description, she exaggerated her story & made it seem like I was the aggressor. “THIS AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN IS ATTACKING ME AND MY CHILDREN!”’
She said the first time Mrs Flom called the police was because ‘she thought I was smoking in public’, but by the third call the socialite claimed she and her children were being attacked.
In the footage, Mrs Flom’s husband appears to be walking away from the incident while his wife is crying on the phone to police.
Police told DailyMail.com in a statement: ‘On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 1852hrs, police officers responded to a 911 call of a harassment within the confines of the 20th Precinct.
‘Upon arrival, officers spoke to both individuals who had a verbal dispute, there were no summonses or arrests.’
Ms Garcia said she ‘couldn’t understand why she was so mad’ adding that she decided to speak out on the incident instead of ‘keeping my mouth shut’.
Mrs Flom later claimed that the video was edited to make her ‘look like a racist’.
She told Page Six that Mrs Garcia ‘twisted the entire thing like she’s some poor girl sitting alone on a bench and I’m white trash, harassing her for no reason’.
It comes just a week after a white woman called the police claiming an ‘African American man was threatening’ her, after he calmly asked her to put her dog on a lead in a secluded birdwatchers’ area, in New York’s Central Park. Dogs must be kept on leads at all times in the area.
Amy Cooper, 41, was sacked from her investment banking job after footage of her angrily calling the cops on birdwatcher Christian Cooper, 57, was watched by millions.
The latest footage has been shared thousands of times as Black Lives Matter protests continue to spread across the world, following the death of George Floyd who was killed by police officer Derek Chauvin who knelt on his neck until he went unconscious.
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