BELMONT, Calif. (KRON) — A Peninsula lady says she is contemplating authorized motion after she was accused of theft at a Pilates studio. Her TikTok video has gone viral with greater than 3 million views.
Sydney La Day says she is humiliated by the ordeal. The lady says the Hotworx worker did apologize however says it’s not sufficient.
Cellphone video captures the interplay between La Day and an worker at Hotworx in Belmont after the worker accused her of stealing a hoop. This occurred in February after La Day went to her firstclass on the Pilates studio.
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The subsequent day, she bought a disturbing check from a Hotworx worker.
“He says, ‘I have you on camera stealing the ring, its $1,000, this is a felony, basically nobody knows about this right now, you should just bring it back and tell me you have it,” La Day said. “Basically trying to bait me into confessing I stole this person’s ring.”
La Day, her sister and good friend went to the Belmont Hotworx to view the surveillance footage.
“We’re in the front of the gym, the lobby area, this is where we are, as he’s going through all this, people are going in and out, looking at me like I’m crazy! Like, ‘Oooh what is she doing?’ He’s telling like she’s stolen this ring,” La Day stated. “It was humiliating.”
Shortly after she says the Belmont Hotworx supervisor, who’s the daddy of the Hotworx worker who accused her, obtained a name that the ring was discovered.
La Day believes that is racial profiling.
“Definitely, I grew up here, I’ve lived in Redwood Shores for over 20 years so these microaggressions, these direct racial profiling, racist actions are normal out here for me to deal with,” she stated.
La Day says that Hotworx worker has since been harassing her on social media — even creating faux profiles. La Day says she is in search of accountability from Hotworx.
“I don’t want this looked under and brushed under the rug because it happens all the time,” she stated. “It’s going to turn into a much worse situation, he could have called the police and what would have happened to me then?”
La Day says she continues to be upset and is working with a neighborhood NAACP department to hunt additional assist. KRON4 reached out to Belmont Hotworx for remark however didn’t obtain a response.
