A TikToker's story about her experience at a Chicago bar went viral. Now it's the subject of a legal dispute.

Original rdrama thread: https://rdrama.net/h/toomanyxchromosomes/post/253546/foid-claims-bar-security-threw-her

The girl who apparently completely made up a story about being violently throw down some stairs at a bar is being sued for $30,000. The lawyers going with the bold strategy of just saying she is right:

Reel did not respond to a request for comment. Almost all of her videos — including ones detailing her experience — have been wiped from her page. Only one TikTok video remains up: a statement from her attorneys posted Saturday alleging that she sustained a concussion and multiple lacerations from bar security.

r/chicago thread

There are a couple of posters reaching for any defense they can conjure up.

Why is this one a cut and dried ‘she lied' real fast when men say/do stuff there's a heck of a lot more comments saying ‘innocent until proven guilty' or ‘I need to see more evidence to believe xyz.' I'm not saying your comment in particular, in society in general it seems the onus for more evidence always seems to be extra on women.

Hubbard Inn admits that they have at least 45 seconds of security video that they don't want to release publicly. That's suspicious, to me, since that short amount of video would exonerate them.

Julia says she has the receipts of a police report and a hospital trip. She hasn't stated the date or time those events offered, which is also fishy, since those events happening before the release of her initial video would prove her innocence.

I'm reserving judgment, but currently it sounds like a drunk entitled young woman got out of line and was manhandled by an inexperienced security guard. Just speculation, but Hubbard Inn appears to have chopped up all of the “good” security footage, and posted it to TikTok since they were hemorrhaging money. They're probably trying to milk this for all it's worth, until the rest of the video comes out, and the public turns on everyone on both sides.

That first part is a lie btw, it was that there were 45 seconds when she wasn't on video.

“Any ‘gap' in the video coverage in Hubbard Inn's post was approximately 45 seconds; but, to be clear, there is no security camera footage that supports Defendant's false claims of assault.”