Black Woman Who Went Viral Over Brick Attack Accused Of Scamming Donors

Photo: TikTok / GoFundMe A Black woman who went viral over a story about a Black man assaulting her with a brick has been accused of scamming GoFundMe donors out of thousands of dollar. Roda Osman, 33, was charged with felony theft by deception after people donated over $40,000 following her viral story, according to charging documents obtained by KRPC. Reporters said she agreed to surrender herself to Houston police on Wednesday (Jan. 17) but didn’t show up. The GoFundMe has since been taken down. Osman blew up on social media in September after a video showed her with gruesome injuries from a Black man. She tearfully claimed the assailant threw a brick at her after the woman declined to give him her phone number outside a Houston club. “What have I ever& to anybody in my life to deserve this,” she said. “I have never done anything in my life to hurt anybody. Literally, a man asked me for my number and I said no. And he picked up a brick, in front of so many men, and was like ‘what are you going to do?’” Police responded to reports of an aggravated assault on Sept. 3, making contact...