You bring your kid into the bar. You sit your kid at the bar. The bar tender says “you can’t do that, that’s illegal, please take your kid away from the bar”. You respond that you don’t have to. They respond “if you’re going to do what you want then I’m gonna do what I want”. You go to juke box 40 feet away and pick some tunes. They slide the kid a drink. The drink could have anything in it. But it’s water. They proceed to call the manager to escort you and the kid out of the bar. You call the cops because you felt threatened. Is that or is that not an overreaction? Probably. Should you have felt threatened? Maybe. But nothing stopped you from preventing your kid from taking the drink. Nothing stopped you from complying with the bartender. And nothing stopped you from leaving the bar of your own volition.

I fully understand that she might have felt threatened. But you don’t get to put yourself in a dangerous situation where you are breaking the law and then call foul when someone else requests that you don’t.

She didn’t call the police to make a complaint that a man had beckoned to her dog with a dog treat. She completely overrated and overrepresented the situation as perilous on purpose to get the reaction she wanted.

He specifically requests in a level tone that she not approach him. She refuses and makes demands that he stop recording. When she threatens to call the police he requests that she do so again in a level tone. When she does speak to the police this is what she says to the dispatcher:

“I’m in The Ramble, and there’s a man, African American, he’s got a bicycle helmet. He’s recording me and threatening me and my dog,” she tells the emergency dispatcher."

She specifically lists his race. She doesn’t say he’s 5’10 or 250 pounds or that he has a scar on his left cheek. She says he is African American.

She doesn’t even start recording on her own phone to get a visual of him that would allow the police to find him in the event that’s he does hurt her or the dog.

We never see him approach her in the video. At one point when the dispatcher doesn’t respond the way she wants she starts screaming.

“I’m sorry. I can’t hear. Are you there? I’m being threatened by a man in The Ramble. Please send the cops immediately!” she screams."

This is theater. This is her using who she is and the benefits of her privilege to get a specific reaction or downplay any repercussions or consequences that might come of her behavior.

Women often go through extreme measures to protect themselves from assault or worse. One such measure to prevent this situation was to leash her pet.