A trip to the beauty salon ended up to a disgruntled client in a brawl with its employees. Perhaps this disassembly be forgotten, if not scattered around the network video of the fight. After watching African-Americans living in Brooklyn, staged a mass protest directly in front of the entrance to the salon.
The story began last Friday. The evening of 3 August, 21-year-old Christina Thomas went to the beauty salon New Red Apple Nails manicure, pedicure and wax-eyebrow. The result of the last procedure, the girl was unhappy. About what happened next, the testimony of the client and serving her masters diverge. The girl claims that he refused to pay for the «bad» eyebrow. Employees of the salon saying she did not want to pay for a pedicure.
Video captures workers at a Brooklyn nail salon assaulting a family of Black women.
The altercation began when the grandmother didn’t like how one of her granddaughter»s eyebrows were waxed and refused to pay resulting in the attack.
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The video, which attracted almost 800 thousand views and 24 thousand posts, fixed in the middle of a brawl, so who was the instigator of the fight is unknown.
As reported by NBC4 Manager New Red Apple Nails Michael Lin, the staff blocked the door when a disgruntled client, along with her sister and grandmother wanted to leave the salon.
«I said, «have a Seat, let me call the police. If the police say you can leave and nothing to pay, [— so be it. But if] the police will say that you paid for the pedicure, then you will pay…» — gave his version of Michael Lin.
Merci Maduka — client posted video of the fight in Facebook, in one of his posts asked concerned that record, because after the incident, was arrested on black women, «and not the Chinese, who attacked them».
Yesterday, August 6, the police confirmed that the incident they arrested 2 persons, including an employee of the salon Huiyue Zheng. She was accused of intimidation and use of force. She allegedly beat Christine Thomas broom, so that she received a lacerated wound on the neck and a back injury. The police were going to arrest another employee, splashed in clients with liquid varnish remover.
Last weekend, the Brooklyn resident Jasmine Johnson organized a demonstration in front of the salon, saying that this incident is directly connected to racial prejudice. «We don’t need to protest, we need to castrate this business…» — said the activist on his page in Facebook.
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Beauty salon New Red Apple Nails is located on the outskirts of the quarter East Flatbush in Brooklyn. According to the census, 86% of its residents are African American and 1% Asian.
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