NYC woman deliberately coughs on coffee shop customer in viral video
In a now viral video, an NYC woman can be seen coughing on an Astoria coffee shop customer who called her out for not wearing a face covering. TMZ first posted the video, which details the incident that took on June 6 at the Astoria outpost of New York City Bagel and Coffee House, on Broadway between 29th and 30th Streets.
In the video, the woman can be seen arguing with a customer wearing a face mask. “You’re a pussy,” the woman is heard saying to the customer. “Come say it to my face.” She then approaches the customer and can be seen coughing on her, before she moves to pick up the rest of her order at the counter. Social media quickly dubbed the woman a “Karen,” a term typically used to describe entitled white women.
The customer who called out the woman posted about the incident on her Facebook account the day it happened. In her post, she says that she informed the coffee shop staff about the woman not wearing a face covering, at which point the woman overheard the conversation and started shouting at her. The coffee shop management put out its own statement a week later, saying its staff was caught off guard, and that most of the workers that day were high school students who were afraid of confronting the woman.
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