Karen Ivery, 32, went “haywire” and demanded Target in Ohio give her her items for free because she deserves reparations.
It all started when she couldn’t pay for the merchandise worth $1,050:
Reading resident Karen Ivery, 37, became “belligerent” and “totally unruly” when she said she was not going to have enough money to pay for the merchandise that had been scanned, totaling $1,051, the Target cashier told police, according to an affidavit.“I decided to take a stand,” Ivery later told police, as shown in bodycam footage. “This is my Rosa Parks moment.”The cashier flagged a supervisor, who told police Ivery asked that Target give her reparations “and then went on a spiel about how I’ve lived a privileged life and she’s owed this,” an officer wrote in court documents.The supervisor said Ivery pushed her into the soda machines at the cafe counter. “I put my hands on her shoulders, attempting to keep some space between us, but her body was physically touching mine,” she told police.The affidavit states that Ivery then went “haywire” and “started screaming,” the supervisor said.Bodycam footage shows Ivery telling officers she was trying to have a “larger conversation” about “how money works.”“We all know money has not treated people equally,” she said, per the bodycam footage. Later, she added: “The system is rigged against people doing the right thing.”
The manager couldn’t get Ivery to calm down. He went back to the security office, but Ivery followed him.
He tried to shut and lock the door, but Ivery forced her way through the door. The manager punched Ivery out of “fear for my safety.”
In December, Ivery “was convicted on the disorderly conduct count and sentenced to one day in jail and fined $110.”
The security footage showed her being the “aggressor.” Officials charged her “with meaning and disorderly conduct.”
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