Last weekend, there was an alleged hate crime reported at the restaurant Shi in LIC. A husband and wife and their gay friend had just left the restaurant when they were allegedly pounced on by a bunch of goons yelling racial and gay slurs. The couple then tried to get back inside the restaurant they just pleasantly dined at and the doorman/management refused to allow them back inside or call 911. That was the victims' story last week, anyway.This sounded kind of bogus to me, so I decided to wait before posting anything about it. And my intuition was correct. The Queens Courier is now reporting that surveillance video shows that the attack happened down the street and no such refusal to help happened, and the owner says the couple had been thrown out for bad behavior. The NYPD is not charging anyone with a hate crime, and there is at least one report that they provoked the attack.
I've been duped by stories before as well, but the media did a real hatchet job on this restaurant which went viral. Social media lit up with condemnation of Shi based on lies, which is likely to affect their bottom line. I hope the restaurant sues the pants off them all. It seems all people have to do these days is cry discrimination and they are automatically believed, no matter how fishy their story sounds.
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This smacks of wanting to get back at the restaurant that threw them out. Drunks tend to run into trouble.
Sort of like those racist slogans that turned out to have been written by blacks, or anti-gay slogans it turns out the lesbian wrote herself.
I saw the wife's interview on NY1 and I thought it seemed rehearsed, almost to the point of forced tears.
i live in the bldg where Shi is
you could believe it duw to the amount of drunks on the weekend
but glad it was just bullshit
The media jump on this story because it fits their narrative of widespread racism and homophobia.
The recent thrill killing of Chris Lane got no coverage because the victim was white and the killers black.
The Shi story was a two-fer - interracial AND gay.
Yelp shows a lot of negative ratings for this place for a lot of different reasons.
Yes, and the media didn't go after Shi for their mixed ratings on Yelp. They went after them over a made-up story, which in turn led to more bogus ratings on Yelp.
At least the Queens weeklies got it right. Funny when they do better work than the "bigger" media.
PS: Chris Lane poster is right in general, but the killers weren't all black.
I'm really surprised that you didn't publish my comment. I thought comments were welcome here, provided they aren't personal attacks. I'm disappointed.
PS: Chris Lane poster is right in general, but the killers weren't all black.
All three accused killers have black fathers.
Michael Dewayne Jones has a white mother.
All of this is irrelevant......
ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS!!!
Michael Dewayne Jones has a white mother.
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Exactly. The media reclassified Zimmerman a WHITE-Hispanic to fit their agenda.
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