Nine Black women who witnessed at altercation at a Chesapeake restaurant say they were discriminated against and wrongfully removed earlier this month, prompting them to consider legal action.
Shakoya Somerville-Holt said she and her friends were dining at Cork and Bull Restaurant when two other Black women who weren’t with their group started fighting. While those women left the restaurant, Somerville-Holt said managers told her group to leave as well, even though they weren’t involved in the altercation.
Watch: Video obtained by WTKR shows fight at Cork and Bull restaurant before women say they were asked to leave
Video shows fight at Cork and Bull restaurant
“No one should be removed from an establishment or denied service when they’ve done nothing wrong and there should be some type of accountability, clarity, as well as prevention,” Somerville-Holt said. “I don’t want this to happen to anyone else again.”…