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You’ve likely seen it and talking about it on one of your chat group as we all are. The outside of a Baltimore establishment was the scene of a brutal moment a Black bouncer did the unimaginable to a white man standing outside. Now, not only are Baltimore police looking to identity the bouncer, the ordeal was all caught on camera… and has the internet divided on whose really at fault.
The viral video captured outside of a restaurant called Cross Street Public House in Federal Hill, a neighborhood in Baltimore, in which an unidentified Black bouncer dressed in all black was choking up a white man who was reportedly “challenging” him. As witnesses stood by stunned and speechless, the bouncer can be seen placing the white man in a chokehold for almost 50 seconds. But that’s not half of it.
In the clip, the bouncer slams the man’s head into a parked car’s window, shattering the glass, as the man struggles to get loose from his grip.
After nearly a minute and some bystanders yelling out how the white man is “tapped,” slang for “tapping out” or surrendering, the bouncer eventually let him go. Another man, wearing a shirt with “Security” printed on the back, walked over to the pair and tried to keep the white man from fleeing.
CBS News reported the incident occurred after an argument and Baltimore police are investigating to identify the parties involved. A spokesperson for Cross Street Public House said they employed Ace Event Services Group as security for the evening— whom they have since parted ways with— and that the bouncer was not employed by the restaurant.
Folks sounded off online, condemning the bouncer’s actions.
“Unless the kid is throwing hands or endangering others, you don’t need to be physical,” one person wrote on X, who says they are a former bouncer. “Now the business is exposed to a lawsuit and the bouncer is exposed to both criminal and civil litigation.”
Another X user noted how, “Dude was tapping out and begging to be released from the chokehold and homie responded by strangling him til he was limp and smashing him into a window. Bouncer deserves jail time.”
A third person commented: “Bouncers are genuinely the most insecure, worst people on the planet.”
But not everyone felt the same way.
“Another satisfying racial moment,” one person wrote on Instagram.
One person said, “No one had a word to say when he was violating the bouncer’s personal space” and how “No one said anything or made a sound when he made contact with the bouncer” and that he did “his JOB.”
Another Instagram user asked, “Where was all these chill out people when the white guy started it?”
Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer, a Baltimore City Councilman, shared his two cents in a post of his own on X, calling for accountability.
He wrote, tagging both BPD and Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, that “both Bouncers/Security guards need to be held accountable.”
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