A confrontation between a host and patrons at Carmine's slid neatly into every outrage narrative of 2021. Maybe a bit too neatly. bridgetgillard reports
Black Lives Matter of Greater New York and other local activists protest outside Carmine’s Italian restaurant in New York City on September 20, 2021. Photo: G. Ronald Lopez/Zuma Press Wire A few hours before his workplace went viral, Matt, a server at Carmine’s on the Upper West Side, was sitting in a pre-shift meeting, taking notes on the dinner specials.
Matt was shaken, but he’d seen a lot over his tenure at Carmine’s. Little did he know the initial incident was about to escalate to a new level of clusterfuck: By Monday, four days later, Matt would find himself showing up to his shift in the middle of a Black Lives Matter protest. Bill O’Reilly would do a segment about the event. The restaurant would become a mayoral campaign stop.
It didn’t end up mattering too much. By the end of Friday, another narrative had emerged, this time in a New York Times article. One of the women was now being represented by a Dallas-based civil-rights lawyer named Justin Moore, who has a history of taking on high-profile cases involving racism and police brutality, as well as 35,000 Instagram followers.
Newsome and his sister, who organized the protest, are the founders of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, which has publicly tussled with the better-known BLM Global Network. Last June, after comments he made to Fox News about burning down “this system … figuratively [or] literally” created a firestorm on conservative media, BLM Global publicly disavowed Newsome and his organization.
The next night, Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa dined with his wife at Carmine’s in a show of solidarity , because he saw his “nemesis” Hawk Newsome leading the protest. “Also, I’d say to Eric Adams, who was painting Black Lives Matter in the streets, is this really what he wants to be associated with?” Sliwa told the Post during his visit to the restaurant, where he tucked into a plate of angel-hair pasta with garlic and olive oil.
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