BLM Holding 'Cancel Carmine's' Rally Outside UWS Restaurant

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Black Lives Matter of Greater New York announced Sunday that it is holding a "Cancel Carmine's" news conference and rally Monday outside the Upper West Side restaurant at West 91st and Broadway.

The announcement comes in the wake of new details revealed by The New York Times about the Thursday brawl between a group of tourists and a hostess at Carmine's.

The original police report provided to multiple publications, including Patch, said that the Carmine's hostess was attacked by three women from Texas after they were asked to show their vaccination card to eat indoors.

However, lawyers for both Carmine's and the three women confirmed to the New York Times on Saturday that the women did in fact provide vaccine documentation to the restaurant before walking inside.

The fight kicked off after two men who joined the group a few minutes later at the popular Upper West Side Italian restaurant did not provide proof of vaccination, the New York Times reported.

Justin Moore, a lawyer who represents one of the three women, who are Black, told the Times that the hostess used a racial slur, spoke condescendingly to the patrons and suggested that their vaccination cards were fake.

Carmine's has denied to multiple publications that racism played a part in the altercation.

Black Lives Matter of Greater New York will host the news conference and rally at 5 p.m. Monday outside of Carmine's.

"Vaccine Mandates will NOT be the new Jim Crow," BLM of Greater New York wrote on Instagram. "We just had to fight with the NYPD over racist social distancing enforcement. Carmines lied and had 3 Black women arrested."

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Update: 'Cancel Carmine's' Rally Draws Crowd On The Upper West Side