Manhattan Attorney Decried as Racist Apologizes on Twitter
"One of the reasons I moved to New York is precisely because of the remarkable diversity offered in this wonderful city," he said. "I love this country and this city, in part because of immigrants and the diversity of cultures immigrants bring to this country."
May 22, 2018 at 02:53 PM
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Aaron Schlossberg, the Manhattan attorney whose rant against employees speaking Spanish at a Mexican restaurant provoked a firestorm on social media, said Tuesday that his diatribe was unacceptable.
He chose to issue his apology on Twitter where thousands of people called him a racist after a video of him chewing out the manager of Fresh Kitchen in midtown Manhattan surfaced on May 16. In the video, he threatens to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement to report employees who he assumed were in the United States illegally.
“What the video did not convey was the real me,” he declared in his apology. “I am not a racist.
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