Posted on 07/25/2017 12:02:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BELLEVUE, Neb. (WOWT) -- A local man was kicked out of a Bellevue Golden Corral because of the shirt on his back. Another customer reported him to the manager, claiming the shirt was too controversial for children to see. The situation has the man in-question considering his first amendment rights.
“"I paid for the f***-ing food,” Riek Mock can be heard saying in the video.
Mock told his son to start recording video on his phone Sunday when the restaurant’s manager asked him to leave.
"He said a customer is complaining he don't like your T-shirt on," said Mock. "I said ‘alright. Not a big deal. If he don't like it, don't look at it.’"
The shirt in question has two photos of President Donald Trump – on the front the text reads, “F*** Trump.” The back reads, “LOSER”.
Bellevue Police had to be called to escort him out of the restaurant– but not before some customers asked to take selfies with him.
"The freedom of speech,” Mock said. “I voted for him [Trump].”
The auto body shop owner says he's worn his shirt many times in public. Mock said he’s even worn it at the same Golden Corral a handful of times.
What Mock learned very quickly is that you can't wear anything you want when you're on private property.
"Did I commit any crime? No,” he said.
The Bellevue officers made it clear they were only escorting him out because the manager has the right to refuse him business.
“"I work six days a week. That's the only day I've got to spend with my kids and I felt like somebody was taking it away,” Mock told WOWT 6 News.
Mock is originally from Sudan. He says moving here to the U.S. he thought the First Amendment protected him everywhere he went. In the video he even made a point to repeat the word over and over.
"I'm getting kicked out of a ****place because they don't like my **** T-Shirt,” he says in the video.
Mock said he was aggravated.
"Yeah, I was getting too angry. I felt offended with my kids around me."
For now, he says he'll keep wearing the shirt.
"Yes I will. Unless they tell me ‘don't come in, we don't like the T-shirt.’ Then I'll leave it outside," Mock said.
Golden Corral sent WOWT a statement and said it’s not the first time something similar has happened at their establishment. They said a similar situation happened in Georgia with a guest likely to have been on the opposite side of the political spectrum. Golden Corral officials said they handled it the same way. The issue for them was the profanity, not the politics.
Their statement read, “We take pride in offering every guest, at every restaurant, every day, a high-quality dining experience that caters to the whole family. By policy, we cannot allow guests attired in clothing featuring profanity to dine with us.”
WOWT 6 News also spoke with local lawyers over at Domina Law group. They said wearing profane clothing in public is perfectly legal, but it depends where you are. In Nebraska, a state statute allows individual cities to ban cursing by creating an ordinance.
Go back to Sudan you poor little snowflake.
And while you’re there maybe you can study what the first amendment really MEANS (or y’know you could try wearing a t-shirt that disparages the religion there...)
And how is he an AUTO BODY SHOP OWNER!?!
It’s private property. They can refuse to serve you.
Just like if I went to your auto salvage business with a “Muhammad is a child rapist devil worshipper” shirt own.
Probably a program set up by the Obama administration.
Some immigrants do not understand the bill of rights and american culture.
Some folks think that they can offend everyone and there won’t be consequences
Too bad. So sad
If he voted for Trump (as he claims, which makes no sense), then he must be a naturalized citizen and thus SHOULD know about the Bill of Rights.
Or he just admitted that he voted illegally...
Yeah, like hell he voted for Trump. No one believes that.
Anyway, you can’t wear a profane shirt like that in public. A shirt criticizing Trump - fine. One with profanity - not fine.
People like him only help our cause anyway. There is nothing persuasive about his shirt - only turns people off.
Nebraska is like a conservative alter ego to Vermont. Both states are full of libertarians who love their gun rights, Vermont actually has less restrictive gun rights then Nebraska. I lived in Nebraska and the people there do not like vulgarity, they frown upon it.
Just another foul-mouthed lout acting the victim..
Wearing the f-word in a family friendly business is not just vulgar, its dumb...no matter whether the shirt is political or not or what side of politics its coming from.
If that is true, who do bakery owners have to serve homosexuals?
Freedom of speech does not mean you are shielded from the consequences of said speech.
Particularly on private property.
“Free speech does not include yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theatre.”
This is his only day he has with his kids yet he bombards them with a nonstop volley of f-bombs. Let’s vote him father of the year. When his kids get suspended from school for talking in public like dad does, I suppose he will helicopter into the school board meeting and raise hell with them.
Go back to Sudan you piece of vermin and open up a body shop there. ROFLMAO.
He is a level 2 protected class, maybe even 3 if he is also Muslim, so they need to shut up and bake his cake (in his mind).
Why not?
John Edwards and Hulk Hogan were applauded by the Father of the Year award dolts in 2008.
“Anyway, you can’t wear a profane shirt like that in public. A shirt criticizing Trump - fine. One with profanity - not fine.”
He was not in public. If he was, the shirt would have been “legal” if not “fine”.
I guess the shirt was “legal” even in Golden Coral, it just wasn’t “fine” with the “private” establishment managers. They have the right to refuse service.
“no shirt, no shoes, no vulgar anti-Trump shirts, no service”
F*** Obama or F*** Trump, both are totally inappropriate for a family restaurant!
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