New court documents show that the case of the “victoria secret karen” video from 2021 is more complicated than first thought.
A black woman named Ijeoma Ukenta was trying to use a coupon for free knickers at Victoria’s Secret in New Jersey at the time. She says that a woman named “Karen” struck her and had a breakdown, screaming and rolling around on the floor.
Now, civil court records show that Abigail Elphick, who goes by the name “Karen,” is disabled and has had many mental and physical health problems in the past.
Nearly two years after the first event, in July, Ukenta sued Elphick, Victoria’s Secret, the mall, and the security company in a civil claim for negligence.
The lawyer for Elphick said that she had a mental illness that made her lose it because she thought the video would cost her her job and her home.
Abigail Elphick, who was seen having a huge meltdown, says she is disabled and has a history of mental illness.
When Ukenta sued Victoria’s Secret, she said that they knew she had been attacked but did nothing about it. She also said that when security finally came, they did not help her or protect her even though she asked them to remove Elphick.
The people there were very rude to her and didn’t care that she was worried about her safety. Plaintiff was the one who was hurt, but mall security made her feel even worse by ignoring her worries and telling her to leave the mall.
The moment that went viral began at the Short Hills Mall in Millburn, New Jersey, where Ukenta asked Elphick to give her some room because of COVID-19 rules.
The white woman quickly got angry when she punched Ukenta while they were both at the register. She then threw Ukenta’s shirt on the bar and buried her face in her hands.
I said, “Oh my God!” Ukenta said in the film as Elphick knelt down.
“Can you see this?” Girl, I never thought this would happen to me. “She hit me as she tried to run away,” Ukenta says.
“No, I didn’t!” Elphick yelled. I don’t want to be let in.
“Did you see that?” “Oh my God, they all saw her,” Ukenta said.
“I didn’t mean to hit you.” I don’t want to be caught. Do not move! He said Elphick. “I didn’t mean to hit you!”
Elphick then falls to the floor on her back and uses her bag as a pillow. In the background, store workers keep looking at other customers.
In the video that went viral, the white woman was seen lying on the ground with her bag under her head.
At the very end of the video, a store worker talks to the white woman and says, “Hi, Karen.”
The chaos seemed to start up again in a second video, which showed Elphick lying on the ground and yelling, “She’s recording me!” at Ukenta while she was shaking.
“You keep making things up to say I’m threatening you, so I’m recording to keep myself safe,” Ukenta says.
At one point, a woman seems to try to calm Elphick down while the screaming white woman talks on the phone to someone, who sounds like the cops, while she keeps saying that Ukenta “threatened” her.
“This is how black people pass away.” See this? Can you see what these people are doing? Ukenta said, “They make people scared and tell the police (unintelligible) when you saw her chasing me around the store.”
Ukenta is “sick,” so that woman tells her to put down the camera.
“Don’t tell me what to do; she’s on the phone.” She said I made threats against her. It doesn’t bother me if she’s sick. She said, “I worry about myself.”
In a third video, mall security finally shows up, and Ukenta tells the “unaware” security guard what’s going on.
In the fourth video, police finally showed up and told Ukenta that they “couldn’t kick her out,” which means Elphick, even though she was seen hitting Ukenta on tape.
In her lawsuit, Ukenta said she started recording to protect herself: “She was acutely aware that if the police were called, she, as a black woman, might not be believed and could be identified as the aggressor.”
The events were shown in a number of videos by Ukenta that quickly went viral on social media. She even put up a video of a police report being filled out that showed Elphick’s details.
Lawyers for Elphick say this has led to a lot of unwanted calls, including threats against her and her family. She says that in April, she got death threats over the phone.
The white woman said she didn’t want to be filmed after she seemed to attack the woman being recorded, Ijeoma Ukenta.
What they also say is that Ukenta used this to make money off of a crippled woman.
“Ukenta spread a false story about Elphick, a disabled person, which tricked people into giving money to help him defend himself against charges that were not even filed against him at the time.”
They say that about 5,000 people have given Ukenta $104,465 through GoFundMe. Others, on the other hand, felt sorry for her attacker because she was crippled.
“I was stunned.” It went badly for her. The world we live in then took over and changed it into something totally different from what it was. The building where Ms. Elphick lives is managed by Tom Toronto, head of Bergen County’s United Way, according to the New York Times.