Posted on 05/24/2014 5:22:46 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
A Tennessee man who was accused of using a racial slur on a receipt at a Red Lobster restaurant last year is suing the restaurant chain and the waitress who cashed in on the incident after she posted a copy of the receipt on the Internet.
Devin Barnes, 21, claims he never wrote the racial slur on the receipt, and that the negative attention he received as a result of the way Toni Christina Jenkins - the waitress who claims to have received the slur - publicized the incident is slanderous.
In Barnes' suit, filed in Williamson County Circuit Court, he claims Jenkins slandered him by misusing his personal information, and that Red Lobster's 'willful and malicious ... omissions to act' by failing to prevent Jenkins from using his name and information 'to gain publicity and money' has caused lasting damage to his reputation.....
The handwriting analyst found that 'no significant handwriting characteristics similarities' were found between the questioned 'total' entry line and the handwriting samples provided by Barnes and his wife, the Tennessean reports.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline shortly after the incident, Jenkins said she believes Barnes when he says he didn't write the slur. She says she only posted the picture at all 'to make a comment about racism,' not to draw attention to herself....
In the weeks following Jenkins' posting the photo on the web, the left-wing blog AddictingInfo.org started an online fundraiser for her that raised more than $10,000 - money Jenkins later said she planned to use to buy a car....
Red Lobster said in a statement issued Friday. 'After the completion of a full investigation into this matter, Miss Jenkins returned to work.'
Barnes is seeking $1 million in his suit against Jenkins and the restaurant.
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Ohhh — she wrote that slur and everyone knows it because when she lets loose of that receipt after it being signed by the customer she never sees it again.
I agree, she should have been fired.
The restaurant hired her back after the investigation. I wonder if he waited until they had demonstrated fully that they didn’t seem to see it as an issue before he decided to prove a point that it is an issue?
Hey, I’m just waiting for the day when we judge a lobster not on the color of its shell, but on the content of its tail.
In my opinion the person who wrote it is the only one to be held responsible. As far as releasing confidential information on the receipt that identified the customer, I don’t think the restaurant said this proved that he wrote the slur. If they contended it did, they should be held liable.But releasing the information also gave the customer the opportunity to deny, with supporting evidence (the handwriting analysis), that he was not responsible for the slur.
Red Lobster
Redskins
“The restaurant hired her back after the investigation.”
Eric Holder moonlighting?
If she wrote the slur (and I too believe she did) then she should be sued. Red Lobster is only included in the suit for their deep pockets.
I have no idea what happened here, but just more on a general note.... the science of hand writing is truly BONK
Both of them will have hand writing “experts” to say whatever they want them to say ,if it ever came to trial
The problem is, the news media reports the slur, the customer is judged guilty, and their reputation is ruined. It is very hard to unring a bell. That is why suing is a good answer. Punish and prevent the next hoaxer, or at lest make them think twice.
She still works for the restaurant AFTER they found she posted the receipt in violation of company policy. That makes the restaurant complicit in slandering the customer. Let’s go to trial and sort it out.
i do not even understand her excuse... and if she believes him when he says he didn't write the slur, who does she think did? who does she say she thinks did? and i also do not understand the fundraising thing for her... why would people send her money? or even set up a fund for her? so weird...
I agree hiring the waitress back makes the restaurant complicit in the slander, providing there is strong evidence, more than circumstantial, that she wrote the slur.
Haven’t heard of HER submitting her handwriting for analysis. That would be an interesting comparison. After all, who else had handled it?
She was probably hired back out of fear that the Rev Al and Jesse Hijackson would descend on them if they didn’t.
I haven't read any mention of it. That definitely should have been done.
Most likely that’s it, but the company still has to answer for it. I already avoid the overpriced place. Seafood is better at our local Greek diner anyway.
Almost every one of these incidents turns out to be a hoax perpetrated by the so-call "victim." I'm going to go with the trend and say that in all probability the black waitress wrote it on the reciept herself hersef.
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