Society's Child
The caught-on-camera fracas erupted Saturday inside the Saltgrass Steak House in Little Rock after a woman wearing a face mask confronted patrons who stood too close to her, according to bystanders.
Seth Crews, who recorded the violent incident on his cell phone, told KARK 4 News that he and his brother were having dinner at the eatery when they heard screaming coming from the bar area. "All the restaurant employees were trying to help, they were just in shock like the rest of us," Crews said.
A police report obtained by the news outlet says that a restaurant employee saw a woman wearing a face mask telling two others that they were sitting too close. That worker also claimed that the same woman purposely coughed on other customers.
Cellphone footage shows a woman seated at the bar area tell two men "you're supposed to be six feet away from me," before the melee exploded.
According to witnesses and the police report, a man seen in the video wearing a USA shirt then deliberately got even closer, escalating the sitatuion.
The boyfriend of the woman wearing the mask then apparently hit the man with a bottle before dozens of people wound up involved in the brawl, witnesses said. "The guy came up and was touching on his back and giving him a little shove and he just wasn't taking it and that's when it all started," Crews told the news outlet.
Nobody involved in the fight has filed any charges, according to KARK 4 News.
Reader Comments
Half the harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them, or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are so absorbed in the endless struggle.
T.S. Elliot
That lady (if you can even call her that) is just a racist, angry, bat shit crazy, instigator.
Odds are she's what I lovingly (sic) refer to as a 'Psycho Bitch From Hell.'
In my experience, Oh, I can't / won't mention it.
Oh well, something else. Just saw the black guy at the bar grab the bottle. To use a term from my youth: "Typical NIGGER move!" (One difference: you don't hear this: "F'g N*****R!"
R.C.
Another change from my youth. Black folks in the same place as white folks, BUT behaving no differently than they did from 1972 - present.
I used to watch from the Windsor over the road, which only rarely had brawls, except in the band venue - the best one I saw there was the Johnny's concert, the band played the whole gig while a massive brawl went on. F'ing great! I miss the 80's.
R.C.
*Old RC Joke: "No one else will."
P.s.,
" F'ing great! I miss the 80's."Me too!
RC
Here, in bar fights, it didn't. No white folks EVER went in black bars, vice versa.
BUT, from Junior High ~70-72 (Grades 6 or 7 through 8) to High School, (Grades 9-12);~73-78 it was nothing but a race riot; every day; every single f'g day, 24/7. Our HS was 48%? (gotta check that) black.
R.C.
Once at school there was a massive rumble with the KC's (from my school) vs Mongrel Mob prospects (the school down the road) - hundreds of Polynesian kids smashing the living day lights out of each other with iron bars, baseball etc, in the railway yard in front of the local cop shop - the cops didn't do anything.
1) The bottle was thin enough to break;
2) The guy who got hit with it was wearing a baseball cap so that it doesn't appear? that he got cut.
R.C.
I think that was the intent in the first place, no?
That fight was about opportunist a-holes being what they are. Same as the cause of all the other strife in the world. It helps not one bit to contribute to it.
In particular, RC, your comments are utterly contemptible.
A bar version of the thousand yard stare? It's not even intentional, either you got it or you're scared and showing it.
R.C.
There's a Fourth Way aphorism that is mainly true...
When 'false personality' is active, 'essence' becomes passive.
When 'essence' is active, 'false personality' becomes passive.
That is not only true within yourself, it's true within the wider context of 'the room'.
One can only speculate how far that kind of thing can extend, but there's a very interesting passage in Fritz Peters 'My Life With Gurdjieff' which is an account of how many bullets he dodged that for some reason didn't have his name on them during active service during WWII that could give interested parties plenty of food for thought in that regard.
We just had the same BS here. I have an ancient asthma inhaler (med. exemption) in top pocket. Also carried a sleeve cut off from a T shirt wrapped around my wrist to use if that doesn't work to shut up any K/Ks and I don't feel like being in a scene, since I'm usually just shopping.
RC
If that Karen was that bothered about social distancing, why go out at all? Wearing a mask like a zombie and expecting everyone to kowtow to your Karen demands is comical.