#‘Officer Karen’ says people ‘lost the whole point’ of McMuffin complaints

The Georgia officer whose tearful video about her late McDonald’s order went viral has come forward — saying many people “lost the whole point” of her sharing the saga.

Stacy Talbert, a sheriff’s deputy in McIntosh County, said she filmed herself on Facebook Live to describe the current frustrations of law enforcement to others, NBC News reported.

“Everybody lost the whole point of the video,” Talbert told the outlet. “I’m just so sick of people being mean.”

In the video, Talbert became emotional as she recounted the long wait she faced picking up a mobile order for a McMuffin, hashbrowns and coffee at a McDonald’s in Richmond Hill, just outside Savannah.

By the time a worker finally came out with only a coffee she, Talbert says she told the fast food employee not to bother with the food because she was too “nervous” to eat something she couldn’t watch being made.

Talbert originally posted the video to Facebook Live before it circulated on Twitter, receiving more than 16 million views.

While some online were supportive, others slammed Talbert for complaining and dubbed her “Officer Karen,” employing the nickname that has become shorthand for white women who make a fuss about innocuous incidents.

But she told NBC that she’s taken new monikers — which also included “Molly McMuffin” — in stride, saying they’re “actually kind of funny.”

Talbert said the video had nothing to do with her tardy McMuffin order — but rather the public lacking trust in law enforcement.

“It’s not that people are waiting in the wings to hurt us,” she told NBC. “It’s that people don’t trust us.”

Talbert said she’d spoken to the owners of the McDonald’s to explain she hadn’t been treated badly by staff — and the proprietors, Gary and Jill Stanberry, told NBC they apologized to Talbert for an “unsatisfactory experience.”

The officer said she gets why there was backlash to the video, but she “just wanted to share that I hurt, too.”

“It was completely selfish,” she told NBC. “Maybe that’s insensitive. But if everyone else is saying what’s going on with them. Why can’t I?”