Posted on 10/17/2019 12:46:21 PM PDT by simpson96
Five young black men who posted a video of a manager at a Chipotle on Grand Avenue last year that they claimed showed her discriminating against them are now suing the national restaurant chain.
In addition to discrimination, the federal lawsuit claims Chipotle engaged in a “smear campaign” against the young men after they posted their video to Twitter.
One of the men received an onslaught of death threats and tweets containing racial epithets, the suit says.
The group is seeking financial damages from the company to compensate for the “deep humiliation, embarrassment and emotional distress,” they’ve endured because of its conduct, according to their lawsuit.(snip)
The case stems from an incident that took place at the St. Paul Chipotle location last November, when a store manager refused to serve the five young men unless they pre-paid for their meals because she and at least one other employee believed they were part of a group of repeat dine-and-dash offenders.
One of the young men — Masud Ali — took a video of their interaction and posted it to Twitter. The video quickly went viral.
The footage begins with the employee telling the men, “You gotta pay, because you’ve never had money when you come in here.”
“Ya’ll are basically stereotyping us,” one of them replies.
Chipotle wound up firing the manager shortly after the incident, but then offered to rehire her days later, explaining in a statement that it received “additional information” that changed their understanding of what happened.
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They tweeted that they were doing it on purpose.
Guilty.
These guys, the lawyer representing them and any judge hearing the case should be arrested and tried for organized fraud and theft.
They posted their own video to twitter and are suing someone else because of the public backlash to their antics?
Do they even know how to internet?
I know the manager at one the restaurants here in my place. There was even a group of idiots who did the same thing and these retards parked in the camera-secured lot and ran for it. The business simple sent the video of the license plate to LAPD...
Bell curve.
I’ve only been to a Chipotle twice. Here in Seattle it is the kind of place where you put in your order and pay and then they give you your food.
That is everybody, mostly working folks on their lunch hour.
I smell bottom dwellers. Bet they called Saul.
“Chipotle wound up firing the manager shortly after the incident, but then offered to rehire her days later, explaining in a statement that it received ‘additional information’ that changed their understanding of what happened.”
I hope she told THEM to p*ss off! I’d be so mad if I got fired - FOR DOING MY JOB!
Screw all of this PC cr@p!
P.S. So GLAD I’m retired and don’t have to deal with unruly customers or higher-ups any more. :)
I’ve only been to a Chipotle once. Once was enough. Gross. Won’t go back. And I too thought it was a pay-first kind of place.
Something doesn’t add up here.
Grifters. They must have Omar as an advisor, are they from her district?
The second pic looks like a young Puff Daddy with a wig...
You are racist. Thinking facts are more important than truth.
Chipotle is good for spending an hour on the toilet.
Yeah. When I read dine and dash - I immediately assumed WHERE they were dashing to.
Sounds like the earlier Oberlin, OH attempted extortion case.
“Ya’ll are basically stereotyping us,”
“Yes, we’all are.”
Just eating at a Chipotle is punishment enough...................
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