How would you like it if someone took a short video of you during a heated exchange and posted it on the internet and you were fired because of the fallout?

Over the weekend, a video of a white, pregnant woman apparently trying to take a bicycle away from a black man went viral. The internet was quick to pronounce judgment on the hospital worker, deeming her a “Karen” and denouncing her supposed use of fake crying to gain sympathy.

But we must not assume we have all the facts just because there is a video. Context is critical, and we need to extend the grace we hope to receive in our worst moments toward everyone else in theirs.

The woman’s lawyer has now said that the narrative that rabid Twitter users and critics were so quick to employ was not the whole story. He claimed the six-month pregnant physician's assistant paid for the bike and was approached by a group of five people who claimed the bike was theirs.

If her side of the story is true, and there’s good reason to believe that it is, then shame on everyone who played a role in ruining this woman's life. She has now been suspended from her job at NYC Health + Hospitals, pending a review.

In the footage, you can hear the woman shouting, “Please help me! Please help me! Help! Please get off me. Get off me. Dude! You’re hurting my fetus, my unborn child. Help! Please help.”

Does it make sense that she is a master manipulator who “tried her best to weaponize her tears, but when she realized it wasn't going to work she switched it off and acted like nothing happened,” as the interaction was originally framed in a tweet of the video?

Or can we believe that she was “heckled and pressured” to find a new bike on the way home from work after a 12-hour shift? Her lawyer did provide the New York Post with copies of two receipts for the bike, after all, which he said tracked with what was seen in the video.

Apparently, that might be too much to ask: One headline compared the healthcare worker, Sarah Comrie, to the woman whose accusations led to the slaying of Emmett Till.

Bicycling magazine’s article on the incident (supposedly, the bike aspect makes it germane) is headlined, " 'Pregnant NYC Karen' on Video Trying To Steal a Black Man’s Citi Bike ," and it’s not remotely concerned with presenting her side of the story.

“In the now-viral 1:29 minute video, several male voices can be heard repeatedly telling the woman, ‘this is not your bike.’ However she continues to scream for help. The woman then tells the Black male repeatedly to ‘please get off me,’ even though he isn’t touching her,” Taneika Duhaney wrote.

“Her screams for help, despite not being in harm’s way, is the definition of White privilege,” Duhaney wrote.

“According to the New York Post, the woman has claimed through her lawyer that the video ‘does not show the whole story,’” Duhaney acknowledged before pronouncing judgment. “Black males are often villainized yet when they are victimized, such as in this circumstance, video footage is necessary to prove their innocence.”

I have yet to see any reporting about the receipts provided by the man in the video who claimed she had stolen his bike. If her side of the story is true, then would it be reasonable for the group of men who allegedly heckled a pregnant woman to also face suspension by their employers?

Ultimately, the reason this woman has been suspended from her job and potentially mischaracterized in a heinous way is not about race. It’s about human nature. Why are we so quick to jump down the throats of the people we villainize based on presuppositions? Why do we give in to our incorrigible desire to see the world in the way we want?

I think it’s because we forget that we’re people who have tense interactions with those around us, too. Or maybe it’s that we don’t think that in such moments, someone could turn the smartphone on us and start recording.

Brendan Clarey is an education editor who lives outside Detroit. His opinions have also appeared in the Detroit News, USA Today, and the New York Post.