The racist lawyer who was caught on camera insulting Latinos for speaking Spanish and not English amongst themselves is now apologizing. Fortunately, no one’s buying it.
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Aaron Schlossberg sure had a lot to say last week inside the Fresh Kitchen Restaurant in New York City, where he threatened to report a group of employees to immigration officials solely because they were speaking Spanish.
“My guess is, they’re not documented. So my next call is to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to have each one of them kicked out of my country,” shouted Schlossberg. “If they have the balls to come here and live off my money — I pay for their welfare, I pay for their ability to live here — the least they can do is speak English,” he barked.
Schlossberg was following Donald Trump’s position on (brown) immigrants: “These aren’t people. These are animals.” However, what he didn’t realize is that he was being recorded. Soon thereafter, his diatribe went viral on social media and life went to hell for the racist lawyer.
His legal business crumbled. He was evicted from his law office. His Yelp rating nose-dived to 1 star and, someone listed his law firm on Google as “a Spanish restaurant.” Soon, the media began to follow him everywhere both day and night. Additionally, the social justice group Millennials for Revolution raised $1,094 on a GoFundMe page and hired a live mariachi band to play Mexican music and serve tacos outside his midtown Manhattan home.
On Friday, more than 100 people gathered in front of his home waving signs, eating free tacos, and chanting “Ole, Ole! Throw him out!”
“We’re basically clapping back at this fool,” said Chris Thompson, an electrical engineer from Manhattan. “[It’s] ridiculous! This is a multilingual city. He should expect to hear different languages.”
If that wasn’t enough, the New York City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus wrote a letter to the state court system’s disciplinary committee calling for Schlossberg’s disbarment, pointing out he has a long history “expressing racist, bigoted and hostile anti-immigrant sentiments in public.”
“This persistent display of bigotry is ample evidence that he cannot conduct himself in a professional capacity with regard to race,” the letter said.
City lawmakers also requested that the state make public any previous disciplinary actions against Schlossberg “due to the public nature of his conduct and the wide public interest it has garnered.”
Well, every man has his breaking point and on Tuesday, Schlossberg abandoned his “Donald Trump-esque” immigrant attack and issued an apology.
“To the people I insulted, I apologize,” Schlossberg tweeted Tuesday afternoon. “Seeing myself online opened my eyes — the manner in which I expressed myself is unacceptable and is not the person I am.”
Claiming the video did not reflect his true self, Schlossberg continued his plea.
“What the video did not convey is the real me. I am not racist. One of the reasons I moved to New York is precisely because of the remarkable diversity offered in this wonderful city. I love this country and this city, in part because of immigrants and the diversity of cultures immigrants bring to this country,” he added.
“Again, my sincerest apologies to anyone and everyone I hurt. Thank you.”
— AaronSchlossbergLaw (@ASchlossbergLaw) May 22, 2018
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Immediately after the apology went live, skeptical New Yorker’s were ready with a response. Most everyone doubted his words were genuine and were quick to realize it was only done in an attempt to stop the bleeding and to get his life and career back on track.
“He already said what he meant,” an anonymous New Yorker told ABC News. “He can’t take it back now!”
“This man is a lawyer, someone entrusted to be a custodian of the Constitution and defend civil liberties,” Councilman Francisco Moya, who is part of the committee that sent the letter, said in a statement.
“The First Amendment may afford him the right to espouse white-nationalist beliefs but it does not protect him from the American Bar Association’s own disciplinary rules.”
With his legal business and private life reduced to ruins in just days, this racist lawyer has been taught a very valuable lesson. Donald Trump may have given him the courage to spit his racist rhetoric in public, but “The Donald” can’t save him from a good old-fashioned New York beat down!
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With his legal business and private life reduced to ruins in just days, this racist lawyer has been taught a very valuable lesson. Donald Trump may have given him the courage to spit his racist rhetoric in public, but “The Donald” can’t save him from a good old-fashioned New York beat down! […] – DJ
Hear! Hear!
And frankly, in light of the fact that this wasn’t the first time this hate mongering nutjob was caught on camera spewing his venom at someone (a White American man no less) who apparently didn’t “look” quite “American” enough for this fool I’d say his “beat down” was long overdue.