Hilaria Baldwin, married to actor Alec Baldwin, took to Instagram to recount her recent trip on the subway, urging her followers to get involved as she did.
Using her status as a celebrity to her advantage, Baldwin got in the middle of a police interaction with a woman after noticing a “language barrier.” She described the officers, with one being “pretty professional” and the other being “really agitated.” She ends her tale by encouraging those watching the video to use their “privilege” to help those who look like they need it.
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“I just got off the subway, and as I was leaving, I noticed that this woman was getting stopped by two police officers,” she starts her video. “One of the police officers seemed pretty professional, and then the other one was really agitated – and this woman was very scared and probably, you know, comes up to here on me I’m almost 5-foot-3, so she’s a very small woman.”
“I could tell that there was a language barrier so I got closer and I asked her do you need help to translate, and she said yes please. And so I started translating and the issue was that she’s going to pick up her daughter in school, and she was using her daughter’s student Metro card, and she thought that that was okay to use a student Metro card when you are picking up your kid. She says ‘I use this one when it’s not to pick up my kid, but I thought during school time, I told on to the card,’ and she’s very like, super honest, ‘I do it all the time because you know, that’s what I thought that this was for,'” Baldwin says.
“As I was translating, the less professional of the two officers was like, she was the kind of person who was like, if there’s a language barrier, she thought that if she just speaks louder she will be heard – which obviously doesn’t work,” she continues. “And I told them that she’s a very nice woman and I really want to help to make this okay because this is obviously a really honest mistake and like, you know, just, let’s just move on with our day. She’s late to pick up her kid.”
“Long story short, they let her off with a warning,” Baldwin concluded. “There are people who have a level of privilege, and right now I think more than ever we have to look around and see those people who need our help. Whatever we can do, whether that’s just staying with them, like I stayed with her until they left, and I wanted to make sure that she was heard and understood. She literally just wanted them to explain what’s the rules of using this card, and so to be able to give that kind of information and to de-escalate asituation which probably happens every single day in this city. So any time we see somebody who might need our help and we have that ability to even just stand with them, or to help a message be conveyed of what’s going on and just be another person, I feel like that’s a nice thing.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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