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Isabel » 18 Sep 2021, 3:04 pm » wrote: ↑

18 Sep 2021, 3:04 pm

You're not in Hicksville any more, assholes.
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By the end of Friday, another narrative had emerged, this time in a New York Times article. One of the women was now being represented by a Dallas-based civil-rights lawyer named Justin Moore, who has a history of taking on high-profile cases involving racism and police brutality, as well as 35,000 Instagram followers. Moore had said in a statement that not only did all the women show vaccination proof, but that they had been “questioned arbitrarily and unjustifiably” by the host because they were Black. According to the Times, Moore said that, despite the video, the host had been injured when other Carmine’s employees “restrained her” after she had been “called out for racial discrimination.” On Twitter, he accused Carmine’s of lying about the fact that the women had not had vaccination proof in order to cover up a racial-bias incident. He noted that the three had merely been given desk-appearance tickets at the police station. “Something isn’t adding up,” he wrote. 

Soon after, another bombshell dropped in the Times: “Footage Reveals New Details in Tourist Melee at N.Y.C. Restaurant.” The paper had reviewed security footage leading up to the incident, including one video which, according to Moore, depicted the host using a racial slur toward the women as she passed them in the restaurant entryway. But the video had no sound. Only then did representatives from Carmine’s acknowledge that the women had indeed had proof of vaccination. Still, they were adamant that there was no slur.