‘California Karen’ caught harassing ‘one of four black people in Santa Barbara’
nypost.comuploaded by the recipient of her rant — has amassed more than 10s of thousands of views and international headlines as of Tuesday afternoon.“Sooo this just happened @sb_boathouse, Santa Barbra needs to do better.
Almost lost my s–t,” wrote Ian Soleimani, a 39-year-old African-American man who works as a DJ, in the clip’s caption.In the footage of the incident, which took place the The Boathouse at Hendry’s Beach, the unnamed woman can first be seen laying into a restaurant manager over an unpaid check.
The altercation was sparked after the unidentified woman allegedly tried to pay her bill with PayPal after her credit card was declined, according to a thread on Reddit, where the video first went viral.
The restaurant subsequently confiscated her ID and told her to come back the next day with a viable payment method, causing the customer to fly off the handle. ‘Don’t you want to go on the boat and do some African-American fishing?’“It was paid, though, ma’am, and you rejected the payment,” the sunglasses-sporting woman spluttered in the clip.
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