Mother Of Teen In Citi Bike Video Speaks Out: ‘No One Bothered To Ask Him What Happened’
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By Monique Judge, NewsOne
Mary and Michael are eager to talk to me, but Betty, their mother, is reluctant to let Michael speak with anyone.
He’s only 17 years old. “He’s my baby,” Betty says.
He’s a senior in high school. He should be planning to attend his prom and looking forward to walking the stage at his graduation in a few weeks, but instead, he and his family have spent the last week and a half living in turmoil.
Michael is the teen in the infamous Citi Bike video with Sarah Jane Comrie, the woman who has been accused of weaponizing whiteness and her tears in an effort to take the bike from the teen in New York City.
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Michael’s story directly contradicts the narrative that Justin Marino — the employment attorney representing Sarah Jane Comrie — gave in a statement he wrote to the New York Post.
NewsOne has the exclusive interview.
Boys like Michael–and Trayvon Martin–suffer from adultification bias.
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