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An attorney who berated some Spanish-speaking people in a Manhattan restaurant is now paying the price for his bigotry. First, Shaun King picked it up and tweeted out a request for an ID on the lawyer. He got that right away. Now, the tweet and video of this idiot has gone viral, and has been picked up by media all over NYC and beyond.
Link to Google News Search.
People have lined up, too, to dis the moron in Google Reviews and on his Facebook page. This attorney is going to need a good PR firm right quick-like, but I don't see how he's going to recover from this soon.
Link to tweet
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)White man who threatened to call ICE on Spanish-speaking workers busted as Trump-loving NYC attorney
Aaron Schlossberg was identified as the customer who loudly complained that employees at Fresh Kitchen were speaking Spanish to customers and he threatens to call ICE on everyone after hes laughed out of the coffee shop.
Schlossberg, whose law office is next door to the midtown Manhattan coffee shop, boasts in his online biography that hes fluent in Spanish and conversational in French, with a basic knowledge of Mandarin Chinese and Hebrew.
He turned up in another viral video in May 2017 after taking part in a rally in support of right-wing provocateurs Milo Yiannapoulos and Pamela Geller.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)former Missionary to some Latin American Country. Just a guess.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)He was so very happy he had his, now hes going to have something else!
NatBurner
(2,640 posts)u turn a fine phrase, mineralman
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)lame54
(35,331 posts)dalton99a
(81,637 posts)next to Stephen Miller
Phoenix61
(17,021 posts)dameatball
(7,400 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Superiors are warned that he's not house trained and presentable.
Bet these people are feeling pretty oppressed these days, no doubt yammering about suppression of speech, but it was worse in the days when the internet wasn't needed to identify the people who got themselves talked about.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)He's gonna be a little famous, and not in a good way. I predict some sleepless nights.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)tremendously depending on situation. I wonder every time. Life in shambles, mostly unaffected,...?
Suspect business may already be adapting by learning to use an official employee laundering via time at a resort or church retreat with counseling, like (mostly right wing) politicians already do. For employees who don't trigger the grounds for immediate firing trapdoor, of course.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)But, if it is, he's going to have some trouble getting new clients, I'd think, for a while.
Response to Hortensis (Reply #9)
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HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Two are companies. One has closed up their site and the other has disabled their contact form. I guess someone has already notified them that their name is on a bigot's web site.
Crunchy Frog
(26,683 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,664 posts)Hat tip, Joe.My.God: http://www.joemygod.com/2018/05/16/ranting-pro-trump-lawyer-threatens-to-call-ice-because-deli-staffers-were-speaking-spanish-video/
BY JAKE OFFENHARTZ IN NEWS ON MAY 16, 2018 10:05 AM
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UPDATE: The Forward and other media outlets believe they have identified the man in the video. We have been unable to confirm his identity, but we'll update when we have more.
Aaron Schlossberg, Instantly Infamous Lawyer, Gave $500 To Trump Campaign
May 16, 2018 By Dave Goldiner
Aaron Schlossberg, the Manhattan lawyer who achieved instant internet infamy for confronting Spanish-speaking people in a deli, gave $500 to Donald Trumps presidential campaign.
The donation to Trump was revealed by OpenSecrets.org.
Schlossberg erupted at fellow patrons and workers at a midtown Manhattan deli after he overheard them speaking in Spanish.
He threatened to call immigration agents, although there was no reason for him to suspect they werent Americans.
Schlossberg attended the tony Haverford School in suburban Philadelphia and Johns Hopkins University for college, according to his LinkedIn page. He also graduated from George Washington Universitys law school.
Iggo
(47,578 posts)I didn't listen to the video, but the article I read said he looked around for people to be on his side and found none.
Poor guy.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)Based on the English spoken by one of them, I'm pretty sure they were Puerto Ricans - just as native born Americans as that asshole lawyer.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)MineralMan
(146,338 posts)is Puerto Rican, so she's as much an American Citizen as that creepy lawyer.
Iggo
(47,578 posts)S.E. TN Liberal
(508 posts)Part of living in a big city is the fact that people come there from everywhere and bring their languages, customs, religion, and foods with them.
conservatives can't accept the variety of people who exist.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)Shame them!
ck4829
(35,094 posts)Gothmog
(145,667 posts)iscooterliberally
(2,863 posts)I thought that in the USA you were allowed to say anything that you want? I was far from the best student in school, but I did take civics. Do lawyers have to take civics? Anyway, I'm going to go back to my Duolingo app on my iPad and keep plugging away. I need to be prepared to stop speaking English in the event that I run into some racist jackass. This seems to be happening way to often lately.