The owner of a Virginia restaurant where nine Black women were asked to leave following a brawl inside the establishment between two other Black people is defending his team’s actions the night of the incident.
The owners of Cork & Bull Raw Bar and Chophouse in Chesapeake are facing a $5 million lawsuit filed by a group of Black women who are accusing the restaurant of racial discrimination.
The women said they were kicked out of the restaurant in November after a fight broke out between two other women who weren’t part of their party.
After the fight ended, the women said a manager approached them and told them they had to leave the restaurant “because you all like to fight,” despite the fact that they weren’t affiliated with the two people who fought…