Nikki Samuel
Nikki Samuel
Full video of the incident
Nikki Samuel is a resident from the city of Toronto, ON who on June 18, 2017 was video recorded making racist comments and asking for a 'white doctor" to treat her son at a Mississauga, Canada clinic. The video went viral and has received over 21 million views and 300,000 shares on the Daily Mail's Facebook page alone.
Personal Life
Photo of Nikki with her boyfriend
Nikki Samuel is the mother of a son and lives in Toronto, ON. She has a South Asian boyfriend and in the video she claims that her son is "part nonwhite or mixed". [1]
Education
Nikki Samuel studied at Sheridan College for her postsecondary education. Prior to that, she attended Brampton Centennial Secondary School.
Racist Incident
Gif of Nikki moments when she initially asks the doctor if there's a white doctor.
The racist incident took place in June, 2017 in the waiting room at Rapid Access to Medical Specialists in Mississauga, Canada a large city in Canada which is part of the Greater Toronto Area. Hitesh Bhardwaj video recorded the incident as he waited for his own appointment over the course of four minutes of video. The video begins with Nikki Samuel asking clinic staff several times for a "white doctor" to treat her son who she says has chest pains and also complains about brown doctors who have "brown teeth". When staff tell her that no such doctor is available, the woman gets angry and at one point says "being white in this country I should just shoot myself."
She also states that, "I saw a doctor that was not white that did not help my kid," says the woman in the video.
"I would like to see a white doctor.
You're telling me there isn't one white doctor in this whole entire building?"
Hitesh explained why he filmed and shared the video saying, "I couldn't help but record the video.
This is bad, this is inappropriate and shouldn't go unnoticed."
In addition to Bhardwaj, other people in the waiting room also confronted the woman in the clinic.
In the video several of them try to get the woman to go to the hospital, to which she responds, "I was there and they only have brown doctors."
One female witness in the video, tells Nikki that, "Your child clearly has more issues with you being his mother than him needing to see a doctor.
You are extremely rude and racist."
Later in the exchange Nikki accuses the witnesses of "attacking me because I'm white."
Const. Mark Fischer said a police officer spoke to "all involved" and afterward the woman's son was treated by a doctor at the clinic.
No allegations of threats or assault were brought forward by anyone involved and the matter is closed, according to police.
In a statement, Rapid Access to Medical Specialists said it "is proud of the quality of medical care provided at this clinic," but that "no one in the clinic has any comments for the media."