Kristy Wilker: Indiana nurse fired after she claims George Floyd died of Covid-19, drugs in racist video rant
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA: A nurse has been terminated from her job after her social media post slamming Black Lives Matter protests and George Floyd’s death went viral. Kristy Ann Wilker, who was a nurse at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, had posted a video on Twitter on Tuesday, June 23, in which she ranted about black privilege and the death of Floyd.
“Black privilege is thinking you are deserved or entitled to something because of the color of your skin. They — people, black people especially do get special scholarships. They are also shielded from a lot of scrutinies because of the color of their skin,” Wilker said in the video. She continued: “I’m not a racist. I would never treat any patient differently, I would never treat any human being differently. I think God loves everyone. I’m on the same page. However, I don’t think that any race is above scrutiny, including black people.”
You can watch the video here:
Her name is Kristy Ann Wilker and she’s a nurse at Lutheran Hospital here in Fort Wayne in the trauma unit. She clearly doesn’t like black people and it makes me wonder how many black patients died under her care. pic.twitter.com/L54k1n4Qs8
— 💛 (@daysiahinton) June 24, 2020
Sharing her thoughts on the May 25 death of Floyd, an African-American who died after a former Minneapolis officer allegedly knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, Wilker said that the 46-year-old had been wrongly made into a martyr. “He started to have a freakout panic attack when they put him in the car probably because he was high on meth, Fentanyl and positive for Covid” she suggested, adding: “Was the police officer’s foot in the wrong spot? Maybe but, you know, meth, and Fentanyl and positive Covid are probably more leading factors to an [myocardial infarction] so do your research.”
In the video, Wilker also advised people to “toughen up and grow up”. “Rise above it. Some things will always be. I have never been a part of slavery. I don’t know anything about that. I’m not raising children who know anything about that. You don’t know anything about that. So, let’s not pretend that our history — that history — not even ours because we’re taking stuff out of history, right? Teddy Roosevelt? So, let’s not pretend like that has any reflection on today’s society,” she ranted.
Wilker added: “Because I feel like black privilege is bringing that up and throwing it in white people’s face so that they can get what they want and get respect. But racism is dead.”
Soon, the rant went viral. Several people on Twitter slammed her for her rant and ignorance. One user wrote, “White people have the privilege to live in a bubble where they can believe things like 'racism is dead'. She needs to understand that there are still racist people in this world and some of them are in the government.”
“She really said 'black privilege' and says history doesn’t have any bearing on today. Absolute insanity,” another one added.
Another user tweeted, “Just spoke to someone who worked with her a couple of years ago. Once a ten-year-old black boy came in with gunshot wounds, and she told her coworkers not to worry about it because ‘none of them are innocent.’ People have been reporting her for years and Lutheran has done nothing.”
After all the backlash, a spokesperson for Lutheran Hospital told Raw Story on Wednesday, June 24, that “the individual who posted those comments” is no longer employed by the establishment. A woman named Alesha Brown also confirmed her firing from her job by posting her termination letter on Twitter: “The social media comments you referenced do not reflect our values. The individual who posted those comments is no longer employed by Luthern Hospital.”