Socialite and restaurateur Svitlana Flom risked changing into “the following Amy Cooper” — the lady who misplaced her job after calling the cops on an African-American hen watcher in Central Park — after a video of Flom dialing 911 went viral.
However the Maison Vivienne co-owner tells Web page Six the video was edited to make her “appear to be a racist.”
Janae Garcia posted the clip of her confrontation with Flom in an Higher West Facet park Friday, claiming within the caption that Flom “felt the necessity to not solely method me however name the cops a number of occasions on me!” Garcia claimed that Flom first reported her to cops for allegedly smoking in public, “however by the third name, it was bcuz [sic] I used to be ‘threatening her & her kids.’ ” Garcia added, “Whereas giving my description, she exaggerated her story & made it seem to be I used to be the aggressor.
But Flom — who’s pregnant and was visiting the park with her kids — alleges that the face-off began when she “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.”
Flom claims Garcia called her a “bitch” and ranted aggressively at her. She said that she called the police not because of the weed, but “about the woman being in my face.”
Flom added that Garcia recorded for 45 minutes, but only posted “tidbits” of the tape.
“She put her narrative on it to make me look like a racist,” she claimed. “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.” She demanded that Garcia “post the whole” video unedited.
Flom said she woke up late Saturday night to threats, including a text message seen by Page Six that read, “We will decapitate your red neck ass b itch!”
Garcia did not get back to us when we reached out.