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Welcome to 2016. An African-American family was reportedly removed from a Charleston, S.C. restaurant after allegedly intimidating a white woman while they waited to be seated.

Michael Brown says that he and his family, a party of 25, were waiting to be seated at the Wild Wing Cafe in Charleston earlier this summer. After waiting for nearly two hours, they were informed that they had to leave.

Why?

Brown claims that a manager told him that there presence was intimidating one of their White customers.

WCSC in Charleston reports:

Michael Brown says he was celebrating his cousin’s last day in Charleston last month at Wild Wing Cafe in North Charleston. He says after his party of 25 waited two hours for a table, the shift manager told them there was a “situation.”

“She said there’s a situation where one of our customers feels threatened by your party, so she asked us not to seat you in our section, which totally alarmed all of us because we’re sitting there peaceably for two hours,” explains Brown. “Obviously, if we were causing any conflict, we would have been ejected out of the place hours before.”

Brown says while he was talking to the shift manager, someone in his group began videotaping the conversation. Brown says that’s when the manager became upset and refused to seat them.

“I asked her I want to be clear with you,” says Brown. “I said so you’re telling me I have to leave. She said I have a right to deny you service. I said so you’re asking me to leave because you’re upset because he was recording you, after we’ve waited for two hours, and after you’ve already pretty much discriminated on us, and she answered yes.”

Brown says that he called Wild Wing Cafe’s corporate offices numerous times. But when no one answered, he did what everyone does when they need to vent in 2016.

He went on Facebook.

Photo: Instagram

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