A White ice cream shop owner menaced BLM protesters, falsely reported them to 911, authorities say
Source: Washington Post
A White ice cream shop owner menaced BLM protesters, falsely reported them to 911, authorities say
By Andrea Salcedo
March 12, 2021 at 3:49 a.m. EST
When Black Lives Matter activists gathered near an Upstate New York ice cream shop last summer to protest its owner, David Elmendorf, for allegedly boasting that he wouldn’t hire Black workers, Elmendorf reacted with fury, according to a lawsuit.
“If you come over here I’m going to shoot you,” Elmendorf allegedly shouted, before calling protesters “monkeys” and the n-word and yelling, “I’ll kill all of you!”
But after he threatened the group with a gun, Elmendorf, 35, called 911 to give a different account: A group of Black protesters had just threatened to shoot him, he falsely claimed according to authorities.
Now, the New York State Office of the Attorney General is suing Elmendorf under a new law that makes it illegal to submit a false “race-based” police report. The law was passed last year after a White woman walking through Central Park made a false police report about a Black birdwatcher who requested she leash her dog.
“Elmendorf violated various New York laws over the course of two days in June 2020 when he made multiple armed threats, including death threats using derogatory racist language, against peaceful Black protesters and made false reports to the police regarding those protesters,” states the 8-page lawsuit filed on Wednesday by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/12/david-elemerdorf-lawsuit-ny-ag/
