A famous New York City restaurant recently released a footage showing an alleged assault, following an altercation over vaccine cards that involved a restaurant hostess and several patrons visiting from Texas.
Security camera footage released by Carmines on September 20, shows three black women entering the restaurant after showing their vaccination cards. Shortly afterward, three men arrive to join the party, but only one shows a COVID-19 vaccine card. The women go into the restaurant with the man, then turn and go back outside.
According to the original report, the three women: Dr. Kaeita Rankin, her niece Tyonnie Keshay Rankin and Sally Rechelle Lewis, got into a scuffle with the 24-year-old staffer after she allegedly accused the trio of presenting fake COVID-19 vaccine cards.
BLM NYC co-founder and chairman Hank Newsome alleged that Carmine’s treated the three Houston natives with hostility and demanded that the owner, named Jeffery Banks, release camera footage to the public. Newsome believes that the footage will show that the hostess was the antagonizer in the ordeal and not the three women who were wrongfully charged.
Well, as they say, be careful with what you wish for because the recently released video footage (see below) showed that it was the three women who are the instigators.
The camera footage also revealed that the three women did, in fact, provide proof of vaccination before being escorted into the famous Italian food spot to dine, The New York Times reported.
After the women were seated, three men arrived to join the party inside, but two were denied entry because they did not have proper proof of vaccination, lawyers from both parties added.
However, the three women went out again and berated the hostess. One of them also threw the first punch!
Police said they responded to the incident and the three Texas women were charged with assault and criminal mischief. The restaurant denies race was a factor in the altercation.
In a statement released alongside the security footage, the restaurant owner Bank said the lawyer representing the three women had "falsely and grossly misrepresented their acts of wanton violence" and that his employees "work too hard to serve our guests, work too hard to comply with New York’s vaccination requirements, and still suffer too much from the attack for me to allow these false statements to stand."