The past week, protests have broken out in Minneapolis over the murder of George Floyd, a black man who was killed by a police officer kneeling on his neck as he told him he couldn’t breathe. Protestors were sprayed by police officers with tear gas, fired on by flash bomb grenades, and shot with rubber bullets.
Anger over these attacks and Floyd’s death boiled over, and riots broke out across the city. The Washington Post reports that there have been a number of fires, and people breaking into a Target has been widely filmed and reported.
Amongst the many videos of the scene, a particularly crazy one involves a woman who has been dubbed Target Jennifer. It seems her name actually is Jennifer, according to Know Your Meme.
The first video shows a white woman in a wheelchair attempting to stop black protestors coming and out of the building. She doesn’t seem to work for Target, but even if she did, she’s not allowed to stab people to keep them from stealing. She is sprayed in the face by fire extinguishers:
And then Jennifer grabbed a knife and started stabbing black people leaving Target, but let white people pass right on by. She got what she deserved. #BlackLivesMatters pic.twitter.com/mjNf5D2cDW
— Ryan Knight 🌹 (@ProudSocialist) May 28, 2020
In itself, this is an extraordinary series of events, but it gets wilder. Jennifer got away, unstabbed, and claimed on camera that she was peacefully protesting, not going at any black people she saw with a knife:
She just needs to go home. pic.twitter.com/Vpz41v6G2S
— Kaecia Williams (@PoeticKaee) May 28, 2020
There is also a video in which she gets out of her wheelchair and walks:
Jennifer, the white lady in a wheelchair that was stabbing people at Target, can actually walk.
This whole thing is theatrics made to paint #BlackLivesMatter in a bad light. pic.twitter.com/lNnLUSoKHb
— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) May 28, 2020
Not everyone who uses a wheelchair needs it 100 percent of the time because mobility issues manifest in all sorts of ways. But it’s still pretty amazing to see her present herself as a vulnerable victim when there is evidence that she is both violent and capable.
It’s absolutely chilling how this white woman Jennifer can put on such a compelling show of victimhood to get sympathy when moments earlier she was stabbing a bunch of black people at Target and even lunging out of her wheelchair. This is Karen’s violence. pic.twitter.com/Kip1drSPRu
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) May 28, 2020
There are also people alleging she is actually in her 30s and not an elderly woman, though her age has not been confirmed.
WHO IS SHE? She’s 30, She got a knife and she can walk! pic.twitter.com/QUIejX059r
— +Jax (@Jax_Collie) May 28, 2020
Becky with the wheel chair at target. #jennifer pic.twitter.com/xOWLwd70QC
— Kurt Bulau (@KBulau) May 28, 2020
the fact that she’s 30 and SHE CAN WALK are trending, im screaming. its 4 am and i cant sleep from laughing pic.twitter.com/FA5aWR6vn7
— 👸🏾 (@chelseadahlia) May 28, 2020
She’s 30, she got a knife and she can walk!
It’s Jennifer on her way to Minneapolis Target.pic.twitter.com/oYnh2EwhjI— Angel (@AngelWest) May 28, 2020
https://t.co/OlWH3rkglE pic.twitter.com/lXklA48AxS
— you STILL broke? TRAGIC LMFAO 😭 (@RobWalks_) May 28, 2020
It does seem like in some angles, people on every side were trying to help her when it appeared she was vulnerable and distressed. And then she got the knife out. Don’t trust these Karens and Jennifers.