Posted on 05/16/2018 5:08:06 PM PDT by BBell
A Jewish lawyer in New York was caught berating Spanish-speaking workers at a Manhattan restaurant and threatening to call immigration agents on them in a clip shared widely on social media.
Aaron Schlossberg had a meltdown in a Fresh Kitchen in East Midtown Wednesday morning after hearing some of the employees speak Spanish to one another and to Spanish-speaking customers, Gothamist first reported.
Every person I listen to hes speaking it, shes speaking it. This is America! the man shouted. The man appeared to be filming the encounter, as did one of the employees and other customers in the restaurant.
Your clients and your staff are speaking Spanish to staff when they should be speaking English, the man said to the manager. My guess is theyre undocumented, so my next call is to ICE to have each one of them taken out of my country. If they have the balls to come here and live off my money I pay for their welfare. I pay for their ability to be here.
Online observers quickly identified the man as Aaron Schlossberg, a commercial lawyer with offices near Madison Avenue and 40th Street in Manhattan. Schlossberg graduated from George Washington University Law School and has been licensed by the New York State Courts System since 2003.
Stephen Gillers, a professor of legal ethics at NYU, told the Forward that Schlossberg wont be disbarred.
Mr. Schlossberg could be disciplined for this conduct but it will not lead to disbarment. A lawyer can be disciplined for conduct even if the conduct is unrelated to work for a client, he said.
Factors a disciplinary committee will consider in deciding what if any discipline is warranted include extenuating circumstances and whether Mr. Schlossberg has prior discipline. If he does not, I think the most serious discipline he could face would be a private admonition if he has a clean record. That means the discipline will not become public, he told the Forward.
Some took to Schlossbergs professional Facebook page to rate the attorney giving him only one star. He does not appear to have a personal page.
Videos surfaced of Schlossberg at earlier rallies standing and yelling with pro-Trump protesters.
Schlossberg was at a May 2017 rally gathered in support of Milo Yiannapoulos and Pamela Geller, who were giving speeches protesting an upcoming commencement speech by Linda Sarsour. He can be heard chanting You are not a Jew! and Milo! at protesters gathered in support of Sarsour.
The video of Schlossberg raging in Fresh Kitchen was first posted to Facebook by a man who said his wife was at the restaurant when the incident occurred.
What a big man talking down to couple of women and a helpless employee, Suazo wrote. I wish someone tells me I cant speak in my native language ! First of all they wasnt talking to you !! A$$h0le !
In the video, Schlossberg suggests that the woman filming him should not eat the sandwich shes holding.
Maybe you should get hit by a car! she responds.
Schlossbergs website says he is fluent in Spanish.
Uh, oh! Someone who likes Trump did something that offended someone! GASP!
How desperate can the traitorous media GET, anyway?
There was a middle aged Ukranian woman who was a cleaning lady in a nursing home I visited frequently——she barely spoke English,but enough to communicate to me that she went to night school to learn English.
Within one year she knew enough to become a nurse’s aide-——still going to night school.
I lost track of her then but I guarantee she did VERY well.
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It’s really stupid to insult the folks who are making or serving your food.
I wonder if he reacts the same if he hears Yiddish at a deli.
thought criminal thought criminalo!
I feel his pain. He was in a deli, and wanted old time ambience.
Isn’t this culteral appropriating?
Should they be speaking...French, Latin, German or something directly related to those delicious foods?
DK
call dollar tree manager and dollar tree home office and let them know how insulted you are that the clerk was speaking and saying god knows what while checking you out.
Here in California, all you hear is spanish where ever you go, so I feel the same way. We actually have a candidate for governor who has said all Californians should speak spanish or leave.
This is America. Two Spanish speakers should be able to speak to each other without some dick lawyer yelling at them. I don’t care who he voted for.
A dick with a mouth.
Every person I listen to hes speaking it, shes speaking it. This is America!
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It used to be before the Bush family decided to invite in millions of Spanish speaking people.
I’m pretty sure we all remember when everyone spoke English in America and have had the same reaction.
Borders, language, culture - we either protect it or lose it all.
As am I, also in several other languages. The attorney was doing a useful service to other customers who aren't fluent in Spanish.
The illegal criminals behind the counter could be saying "put a dead rat in that customer's sandwich," and a non-spanish customer would be non the wiser.
Besides, as a citizen, not practicing his profession, what law or etiquete strips him of his Free Speech Constitutional right?
Do I believe that the illegal criminal aliens would tamper with food?
Absolutely.
My decades of visiting Cabo San Lucas once or twice a year ended abruptly in 1998 when I overheard a conversation in Spanish near where a U.S. Coast Guard cutter was docked, a group of mexicans were discussing what they planned to do to yanquis, and the other "pendejos" polluting their town.
While there, I never spoke Spanish, nor responded to any conversation. for ten years I traveled all over the peninsula, by myself, in a rented VW, miles from nowhere.
At the time, little did I know I was taking my life in my hands...
Then a few Americans residing in Cabo filled me in, The highway north of Cabo along the west shore runs close to a dirt airstrip which is busy year round with drug transfers, and wrong place at the wrong time rules...
Every year, at least one, often more Americans were killed or disappeared in Cabo, but NEVER reported in the English tourist newspapers.
But they were reported in their local Spanish ones.
After the Coast guard incident, I walked away from my two week yearly timeshare, and never returned, and wouldn't now if my life depended on it.
You are the one who seems to be not only powerless, but clueless, with a dollop of arrogance.
I am sure that you would also argue that the criminal illegal aliens have rights superior to American citizens, too.
Confession is good for the soul...
A rule of retail service is Don’t Talk Over Your Customers. No matter what language it’s in. Maybe that was part of the problem. It’s very annoying. Makes you feel like they can’t wait till you go away so they can get back to their relationship with their co-worker.
I have yet to hear of any Yiddish person engaging in identity theft, welfare cheat in multiple counties, voting illegally multiple times, driving without insurance or a valid license, etc...
If you know differently, by all means, enlighten us.
I disagree. Its about respect. But Im sure you can find plenty of friends on DU that agree with you. And have the same classless language as well. I think youre in the wrong place.
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