VIDEO: THE RACIST LAWYER RUNS FROM THE ANGRY BACKLASH
Aaron Schlossberg, a lawyer in New York has recently gone viral for an embarrassingly aggressive racist rant. He was captured berating employees in a Midtown restaurant called "Fresh Kitchen" in a hostile manner for speaking Spanish to certain customers, saying that he would get them “kicked out of my country” for speaking Spanish.
He threatened to call immigration forces on the workers and continued by saying: “Every person I listen to – he spoke [Spanish], he spoke it, she’s speaking it – it’s America! I pay for their welfare, I pay for their ability to be here – the least they can do is speak English”.
However, he didn't remain unknown for very long as the internet wasted no time in tracking him down and giving him a piece of their minds. The restaurant's Kitchen manager, Hyunsik Kong, said Schlossberg erupted after he overheard a regular customer and a worker speaking to each other in Spanish. He recounted: “He got mad that they were speaking in Spanish and he started ranting, yelling, screaming. It seemed like he wanted attention. He got furious, started to talk really angrily about it, I just let it go at first because I thought it wasn’t too much of a big deal,” said Kong. “Then he started to scream and get a little bit too loud and I stepped up, and said ‘You shouldn’t be doing this here.’”
Since then, Schlossberg has been ducking and diving from reporters and was seen in a video attempting to run away from a news reporter on Thursday. When approached by an NBC News crew on the street near his apartment building in Manhattan, Schlossberg went quiet when asked if he wanted to apologise to the people he discredited in his racist dispute. He continued to walk down the street, disguising himself with a beanie and sunglasses and didn't respond to any questions. He attempted to call a cab and failing to do so, ran from the news crew.
His video made a huge impact on social media and was viewed over 5 million times in two days. Since the rant, even the building in which his part-time office is situated, has evicted him saying: "Corporate Suites has a diverse and global community of business professionals working in a rich environment with mutual respect. We found Mr. Schlossberg's statements offensive and contrary to our community norms and have decided to terminate his services agreement with us."
Congressman Adriano Espaillat and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. have sent a letter to the disciplinary committee that manages lawyers in New York state to record a formal complaint against Schlossberg. A Change.org petition has also been sent out in order to have the attorney disbarred which racked up more than 9,000 signatories by Thursday.
Of course, the general public wanted to get involved too and decided to leave hilarious one-star reviews on his page. Some were outraged, others disappointed but it definitely all held an undertone of "f**k you". His page was flooded with over 4000 reviews (it seems that this is not his first racist rodeo as it were) and some people literally came to his page to simply read the reviews because well... he kinda deserves it.
Although decisions about his fate are still being mulled over, its pretty clear that after looking at these reviews, no one will be requesting his services.