OT: The Tavern at Phipps "Incident"
Posted: Thu Aug 7, 2008 10:03 pm
I, for one, am totally shocked by this.
I mean, really... JOE BARRY CARROLL was an All-Star?
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/08/06/phipps_tavern_lawsuit.html
Former NBA all-star Joe Barry Carroll claims in a lawsuit that he was humiliated and traumatized by the way he was treated in a Buckhead restaurant...
Carroll and attorney Joseph Shaw went to the Tavern after work Aug. 11, 2006. They sat at the bar and ordered drinks and food...
A short time later, a bartender asked them to give up their seats for two white women. There were "several white males" also at the bar, but none of them was asked to move, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw politely declined, but the bartender told them it was the Tavern's custom for men to give up their seats at the bar to women, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw were then told repeatedly by two other Tavern employees to give up their seats, while none of the white men at the bar was asked to do so, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw, saying they wanted to finish their meal, still declined to leave their seats at the bar. So the Tavern management called a security guard who escorted the two men out of the restaurant, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw soon filed a complaint before the city of Atlanta's Human Relations Commission.
~lw3
I mean, really... JOE BARRY CARROLL was an All-Star?
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/08/06/phipps_tavern_lawsuit.html
Former NBA all-star Joe Barry Carroll claims in a lawsuit that he was humiliated and traumatized by the way he was treated in a Buckhead restaurant...
Carroll and attorney Joseph Shaw went to the Tavern after work Aug. 11, 2006. They sat at the bar and ordered drinks and food...
A short time later, a bartender asked them to give up their seats for two white women. There were "several white males" also at the bar, but none of them was asked to move, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw politely declined, but the bartender told them it was the Tavern's custom for men to give up their seats at the bar to women, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw were then told repeatedly by two other Tavern employees to give up their seats, while none of the white men at the bar was asked to do so, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw, saying they wanted to finish their meal, still declined to leave their seats at the bar. So the Tavern management called a security guard who escorted the two men out of the restaurant, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw soon filed a complaint before the city of Atlanta's Human Relations Commission.
~lw3