Man filming abuse outside a ramen restaurant

On Friday night, three men in southern Florida threw anti-Asian slander and “Chinese flu” ridicule at the Delray Beach restaurant owner while trying to close his store.

Louis Grayson, the owner of Ramen Lab Eatery in Delray Beach, Florida, recorded a mobile phone video showing three men arriving after the restaurant closed and starting to talk to him Pizza slices on the commercial real estate. The video shows that these people accused Grayson of bringing COVID-19 to the United States and gave him a series of anti-Asian racism nicknames.The owner of the ramen shop told reporters Sun sentry According to reports, his family is from Thailand, and he said on social media that the incident had “heartbroken” his family.

“Take your fucking Chinese flu with your fuck!” A man in khaki pants and a white button-down formal shirt told the shopkeeper while recording a late Friday night exchange. “You bastard, you Taiwanese, bastard. I’m here, what are you going to do? Go.”

“Sir, continue to say what you should say, continue to say what you should say,” the shopkeeper repeated to the three accusing him.

“Look at him walking, sissy, communist, communist,” the second man in salmon shorts echoed, and the three continued to harass Grayson and demanded that they leave.

Grayson said that when the three people came from a nearby pizzeria, opened their chairs and sat down to eat, he was closing his restaurant. The three apparently drunk men were asked to leave by a waitress, and they began to attack the restaurant owner with insults about the coronavirus.

“He asked where I came from and I said,’I’m from here.’ They said,’No, you are from China. You are a bastard,'” Grayson told the media sentinel.

30-year-old Grayson told the media sentinel He believes that since the introduction of the coronavirus into the United States in 2020, such verbal and verbal attacks have increased. But he added that he has experienced similar anti-Asian irony throughout his life.Grayson posted the video to Instagram The headline was added over the weekend, “We are against any type of racism, harassment and discrimination. Unfortunately, this situation is very heartbreaking and will not make us mentally broken.”

Grayson said that when one of his staff called the police, these people eventually left the restaurant.

Weekly newspaper Ramen Lab Eatery was contacted Monday morning to ask for any other comments on this incident.