The woman would not stop harassing the Target manager. The manager punched Ivery out of “fear for my safety.”
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.