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Family alleges racial profiling at Dave & Buster's
Dave & Buster's, a restaurant chain that bills itself as a family-friendly sports bar and arcade, has come under fire after an alleged incident of racial profiling at one of its locations in Clackamas County.
Rachel Batiste-Barber went to the Happy Valley Dave & Buster's on Saturday evening with her husband and kids after she found an online coupon for the restaurant, she detailed in a Facebook post.
After playing games for more than an hour, a girl's purse went missing at the restaurant, Batiste-Barber said. It was quickly turned in to the front desk, but short about $16 in cash that had been inside.
When the owner of the purse went to the desk to reclaim it, she complained about the missing money and was told that the person who had turned it in was "a black guy with cornrows," Batiste-Barber said. The people working the desk then allegedly instructed the young woman to "find the man and ask him," according to the Facebook post.
According to Batiste-Barber, her husband, the only black man in the establishment, was singled out and the purse owner accused him of taking the money in front of her and their children.
"I refrained from cussing the young lady and her mother out in the family establishment and, instead, decided to go to the front desk and speak with the woman who sent them on a witch hunt to find a man who's (sic) description my husband 'fit,'" Batiste-Barber wrote.
After arriving at the front desk, Batiste-Barber said an employee incorrectly identified her husband as the man who had turned in the purse, even after another worker said the first employee was mistaken.
"My husband asked them to check their cameras so my kids could get back to their evening. They said 'we can't,'" Batiste-Barber said.
Despite that, she said the family was approached by four security guards, followed soon after by a group of law enforcement officers who allegedly told Batiste-Barber and her family "a crime had been committed, and that we needed to be questioned," she wrote.
Batiste-Barber and her family were taken outside, she wrote, where the officers ran her husband for warrants because he "fit a description," though she said that none of the officers spoke with any Dave & Buster's employees to get a description even though the family was asking for the workers to come speak with them, which they did not do.
"All they did do was be sure the security guards stood around my family and I making us look like criminals," she wrote.
"We didn't do anything wrong besides be black with cornrows."
After about half an hour, Batiste-Barber was able to speak with the restaurant's general manager, "who offered no resolution for what my family had just gone through," and the officers told her she was free to go.
"Of course we're free to go home," she wrote. "We didn't do anything wrong besides be black with cornrows. But we were here to have fun. We paid to be here. Our family was in the middle of game play. We came here to enjoy ourselves."
A spokesman for the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office confirmed that they did respond to a call to the restaurant, determined no crime had been committed and went about their business.
A message to Batiste-Barber went unreturned Thursday morning.
But in a statement to KATU News, April Spearman, vice president of marketing of Dave and Buster's, apologized on behalf of the chain.
"Dave & Buster's is committed to maintaining an inclusive environment that's welcoming to all guests," Spearman told the station. "We sincerely apologize to the Batiste family for their distressing experience. This matters to us and irrespective of the outcome of our internal investigation, we will be re-educating our team on sensitivity and guest relations."
Still, Batiste-Barber wrote that she had some strong takeaways from the experience. Namely, that "a white woman can point her finger at a black man and he's automatically assumed guilty by everyone around."
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This the ? ? that people do and get muhfuckas killed
Just gon tell this ? to gon and find a ? with cornrows and the ? did and got the whole black family hemmed up smh -
In before some goofy ? come in here and blame this on corn rows....
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I was watching the news today and a story was on about an attempting kidnapping suspect
The suspect description was:
Black male
Between 25 and 40 years old
Between 5'9" and 6'
Between 160 and 200lbs
May as well run 8 outta 10 ? in for questioning. -
Hi, I was just notified of this article. I truly apologize for not getting back to you timely. My inbox is a little tough to get through right now but I am trying. Again, I apologize for the delay. I would really like to just thank you and everyone who has read or shared the story. The amount of support we've received in the past few days has been overwhelming and amazing. I am happy and humbled to see so many people standing with us against inequality. Racial profiling is very much alive and well and I'm not sure how to end it, but I'm hoping that calling it out when we see it is a step in the right direction. Again, we thank you.
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You're welcome rachel. Im Louis, btw.
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Ima chill
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http://www.daveandbusters.com/contact
Ill be calling them tomorrow.
I got more upset the longer I read.
Who got fired?
How has this family been comped?
Why did it even get that far?
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, so if those at the corporate level are racist, management probably feels comfortable behaving like this due to that.
I will never go to a Dave and Busters again and I will make sure to share this with every single black soul I come into contact with. If you dont value our dollar we should take it away. Period. -
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? this ? wearing cornrows in the 0-16 for anyway?
He clearly was up to no good.....
Seriously tho ? Dave and busters
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They just opened one up near me do they play fights there?
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Where the ? is the burden of proof? How can one person's accusation, without any direct witness of the alleged crime, be taken so seriously?
Ridiculous. -
Well I will not be going to D&B anymore.
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its....JOHN B wrote: »They just opened one up near me do they play fights there?
I think they have ufc, I watched the last 2 Mayweather fights there though. But I won't be going back after this -
Of course they lying bout them cameras. Sound just like ? cops when they caught on camera doing something they ain't got no business doing....
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Cmon yo some ? is bigger than internet jokes. Chill
But i was gon tell her keep 100 wit us she know he took that 16
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SMH... No, but I like to remain tactful so now I'm gonna take your lead and "Ima chill". SMH. -
SMH... No, but I like to remain tactful so now I'm gonna take your lead and "Ima chill". SMH.
Don't worry about that ? . He duck fades like ? duck CS. He a whole ? . -
But some of yall ? say, but not all white people are bad. Foh. Even if you don't stop some racist ? you just as bad as the racist do all white are to blame. Damn when are blacks gonna finally grow a pair
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? D&B
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I never really ? with that buster ass restaurant, the way I look I would probably be accused of mean mugging customers
Popo gonna arrest me for disturbing da peace -
Readin this ? right now..i would have swung on somebody, ? that racist ? .....thats only cause im off 2 1/2 40 oz OEs...
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Rum Middleton wrote: »Readin this ? right now..i would have swung on somebody, ? that racist ? .....thats only cause im off 2 1/2 40 oz OEs...
oh.....so you only tough when you ? huh? -
Got damn at the random turn of events