Connecticut man charged with making racist comment in tirade at smoothie shop

[Jilly_in_VA]

A Connecticut man has been charged with intimidation based on bigotry or bias, breach of peace and criminal trespassing after, authorities said, he hurled a drink and racist insults at employees in a local smoothie shop, whom he blamed for a serious allergic reaction that sent his son to the hospital.

Fairfield police alleged that the man, James Iannazzo, 48, returned to a Robeks Fresh Juices & Smoothies location Saturday after his son had an allergic reaction and berated staff members, demanding that they tell him who put peanut butter in the boy's drink.

"When employees could not provide Iannazzo with the answer he became irate, yelling at the employees using a number of expletives," police said. "He then threw a drink at an employee, which hit their right shoulder."

Police also said Iannazzo made comments to an employee "referencing their immigration status." Authorities said he continued to yell at the employees and tried to open a door to the Robeks "employee only" area after he was asked to leave multiple times.

Iannazzo, who left the store before authorities could arrive, turned himself into police later.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/connecticut-man-charged-racist-comment-tirade-smoothie-shop-rcna13224
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I saw the video. It was a lot worse than this article makes it sound. The guy was fired from his job at Merrill Lynch (actually BOA) and I'm glad he was because I was ready to cancel my BOA card.

[Walleye]

1. Do we even know the truth about his son going to the hospital. He could be lying

[questionseverything]

3. If his child is that alergic he shouldn't be buying anything from a shop

That has peanuts on premises

[Walleye]

7. Also if his son was that sick he shouldn't of been wasting his time on a vendetta,should be with him

[Phoenix61]

2. That doesn't even make sense. So his wife took

their son to the ER and he headed to the smoothie shop to go all Rambo? Brought the drink with him instead of giving to the ER docs so they could determine what was in it.

[madinmaryland]

6. His friends over at freerepublic told him what to do.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. I saw that he got fired. These people never learn.

There are cameras everywhere. They get identified and then get fired.

[GETTINGTIRED]

5. saved from himself

Dude looked like he was ready to go hands on...yes I saw the video....
good on the staff for having the access to themselves locked.
I do believe he got saved from himself.
I'm glad no one was hurt but, for that locked door...
He definitely had ill intent.

[NutmegYankee]

8. Peanut allergies can be triggered by mere trace contact.

The employees are highly unlikely to have intentionally contaminated a drink. If his son has such an allergy, he shouldn’t be buying products from a shop that processes any nuts. A quick look at the menu shows multiple nut containing drinks including several with peanut butter.

Just bad parenting! To then go attack teenagers over it, is being a bad human. Fuck this guy.

[tenderfoot]

9. Why would he go to an establishment that served peanuts to begin with?

Then order a drink where one of the ingredients has peanuts.

A close relative has peanut allergies and walking into a place that serves peanuts is enough to cause problems - they can tell they're present by the aroma.

[Mariana]

10. Because he's a shitty parent.

How much you wanna bet he regularly throws temper tantrums like this at home, screaming insults and throwing things?

[JustAnotherGen]

11. James Iannazzo - keep pic

Since the media has a bad habit of not giving images of certain suspects . . .



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[Jilly_in_VA]

12. His image is all over the internet

Twitter. TikTok. Probably Raw Story by now. Probably also Facebook. People like him never forget that the internet is FOREVER.

Hey Ianazzo!! Bye boy. Have fun looking for a new job with this on your resume.