Massachusetts restaurant Wrongly Accused Black Woman of Using a Fake ID, They Called the Police
A Massachusetts restaurant has released an apology after a Black woman had an unpleasant experience in the establishment describing it as “blatant racism” in a TikTok video.
TikTok user @tiktoksbyalexa says she and her friends went to the Cardboard Box, a restaurant in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on Aug. 10 when the incident took place. Their plans went bad when one of the woman’s friends was stopped by a security guard who believed her ID was fake. The restaurant has late-night events for customers who are at least 21 years old.
“We were greeted by an extremely racist and rude bouncer who thought my friend’s legit ID was a fake ID,” the woman explained. “Instead of just running the ID like a normal person, he calls the cops to run it.”
The woman says that once police came an officer told her friend that she’d have to pay a ticket if the ID was fake. She replied “This is my legit ID. Run it.”
The woman explained that the officer ran the ID and realized it was real. Once the officer told the bouncer the ID was real but recently issued, the bouncer continued to insist that the ID was fake. The woman said that the white customers in the restaurant were goading as the encounter dragged out. The video of the woman detailing the experience has gone viral.
The woman said she received a personal emailed apology from the restaurant and sent it on to her friend. The Cardboard Box has since put an apology on Instagram.
“As many of you likely know, a TikTok video regarding a woman’s experience at The Cardboard Box has gone viral. To sum the video up, a security guard at our establishment believed that a Black woman’s valid ID was fake, and called the police to have them check it. That woman was then treated with disrespect, though she had done absolutely nothing wrong, when our security continued to insist that the ID was fake,” the apology reads.
“To begin, we unequivocally and without reservation apologize to the young women who were treated poorly at our establishment. A personal apology has been given, but we realize that a public apology is also called for. We also apologize for failing to be sure that all of our staff is educated about what is appropriate, especially in incidents involving Black people, who are so often unjustly targeted both by law enforcement and those seeking to weaponize law enforcement against marginalized people.”
The statement also said that the restaurant is working with the chief of security to work on implicit bias and racial sensitivity training.
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