Joy Reid Says She Refused to Call Cops on Black Mother Who She Saw Abusing Her Son at Mall

Joy Reid said she avoided calling the police on a woman who brutally slapped her young son at a mall – in part because she didn’t want to be a ‘white Karen.’

The progressive commentator, 57, said the drama began after she came across the youngster lost and frightened after being separated from his mom at a local mall.

The trip took a turn almost immediately after – after the former cable news host laid witness to the woman slapping the child for wandering, she said Sunday.

The sight left her stunned, Reid told guest Jacque Reid on her web show, Reid This Reid That. The two are not related.

Reid recalled offering the mother, a fellow black woman, a curt ‘ma’am,’ before moving on.

‘It was all I could do,’ Reid said – framing the other option as ‘go full white woman and full white Karen and call police on this lady.’

‘I was like, I’m not a person that calls police on black people,’ Reid told her guest.

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‘This lady open hand slapped this little boy like he was a man who had hit her first.’

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‘So, I don’t really know what- I just feel like I felt inadequate in that moment. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t want to call the cops on her and be a whole Karen. I didn’t really know what to do.

‘I just I just tried to reason with her and she went away. She thanked me and she went away. And I felt like there was nothing else I could do.’

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