Fumes,

Your argument applies to lots of cases…..but it kinda falters when you acknowledge that the employee isn’t white.

Is a black dude a “Karen” if he picks on another black dude? I don’t think the employee is of African descent, but then you need a hierarchy for police preference for different races. Also, given that police in the greater NYC area probably represent racial diversity better than most places in our country, you’d need to know the exact race of the arresting officer.

Basically, you’ve got a lot of assumptions in place for this to be racist. The far easier explanation is that a bullied kid now has an ounce of authority and didn’t know how to back down when someone didn’t like his request. Sounds like an average day in NJ.