One week after a video went viral of a white woman calling the police to falsely accuse an African American man of threatening her life in Central Park, a similar video is making the social media rounds.
A black woman, who Page Six has identified as Janae Garcia, took to Instagram to post multiple video clips of an encounter she had with socialite Svitlana Flom, a white woman.
Both women were at a park in their Upper West Side neighborhood, where Garcia alleged Flom, who was out with her two children, approached her.
“This woman, Svitlana Flom, felt the need to not only approach me but call the cops multiple times on me,” Garcia stressed in her Instagram caption.
“She was too ‘alarmed’ that I was sitting ‘comfortably’ in ‘her neighborhood!’” wrote Garcia, who also lives in the neighborhood. “The first call was because she THOUGHT I was smoking in public,” Garcia explained, noting that Flom called the police a third time and claimed she was “threatening her and her children.”
“While giving my description, she exaggerated her story and made it seem like I was the aggressor,” Garcia went on to say. In Garcia’s footage, Flom, who is on her phone, can be heard saying, “She’s playing the black card,” and in another clip, “She was just like attacking me.”
Speaking to Page Six, Flom alleged that Garcia “twisted” the video footage. Flom said that she initially “told [Garcia and a friend] they’re not supposed to be smoking [weed] and [Garcia], jumped off [her seat], ran in my face. She didn’t care I was pregnant, or that I had two little kids."
“She put her narrative on it to make me look like a racist,” Flom alleges. “She twisted the entire thing like she’s some poor girl sitting alone on a bench and I’m white trash, harassing her for no reason.”
“I want this video to be gone,” Flom can be heard saying into the phone in another clip. “No, we gotta see the type of person that you are,” Garcia can be heard replying. In her Instagram caption, Garcia also encouraged people to “Share these videos as many times as possible."
