People vs. Karen: Part 1
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Part 1: Sadie and Eddie Martinez, a Latino couple, were falsely accused of attempted kidnapping by a white mom-fluencer in Petaluma, California. LAist Correspondent Emily Guerin tells us about Sadie’s quest to hold her accuser accountable, amid the “Karen phenomenon” when multiple white women were caught in viral videos falsely accusing people of color of crimes.
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| 0:56.2 | This week, People versus Karen. |
| 1:02.2 | The Katie's of the world, it stops here. It's not going on anymore. |
| 1:12.8 | Today's story is about the Karen phenomenon, you might remember from 2020, a series of viral |
| 1:18.9 | videos in which white women falsely accused people of color of crimes. And normally, everyone fixates |
| 1:25.7 | on the accuser, the Karen, not necessarily the people she accused. |
| 1:30.4 | But this story is kind of the opposite of that. |
| 1:33.1 | In this story, we're talking about what it's like to be on the other end of a Karen accusation. |
| 1:39.8 | The couple at the heart of this story, Sadie and Eddie Martinez, were determined to bring their accuser to justice. |
| 1:47.0 | Can the same criminal justice system that Karen's take advantage of be used to hold Karen's accountable? |
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