A protest of the sale of foie gras at Le-Bec Fin went wrong this past Friday, the Daily News reports. An inebriated restaurant patron physically threatened four animal rights activists… and pulled his pants down, exposing his genitals to the activists (and everyone walking past on Walnut Street)—while two cops stationed directly outside the restaurant did nothing.
The customer, who was rubbing himself against Le Bec-Fin’s glass door at the activists, was allowed to exit through Le Bec-Fin’s back door. Shortly after one of the protestors was threatened by the patron, a cop watching the incident allegedly told her to “**** off” and that the animal rights activists should "**** themselves.”
A 58-year-old schoolteacher, Diana Eberhardt, who was walking by the busy stretch of Walnut Street tried to get the police officers to intervene with the drunk, pantsless Le Bec-Fin patron, whose behavior she described as “agressive.” From there:
When Eberhardt asked police to step in, they refused. When she asked again, she says, Officer Wallace told her, “If you don’t leave, I’ll put you in the car.”She stood her ground - and Wallace put the totally innocent bystander in the police car, observers told me.[…]Eberhardt was released after a half-hour by a just-arriving Civil Affairs sergeant, who apologized for the bad treatment.
A protest of the sale of foie gras at Le-Bec Fin went wrong this past Friday, the Daily News reports. An inebriated restaurant patron physically threatened four animal rights activists… and pulled his pants down, exposing his genitals to the activists (and everyone walking past on Walnut Street)—while two cops stationed directly outside the restaurant did nothing.
The customer, who was rubbing himself against Le Bec-Fin’s glass door at the activists, was allowed to exit through Le Bec-Fin’s back door. Shortly after one of the protestors was threatened by the patron, a cop watching the incident allegedly told her to “**** off” and that the animal rights activists should "**** themselves.”
A 58-year-old schoolteacher, Diana Eberhardt, who was walking by the busy stretch of Walnut Street tried to get the police officers to intervene with the drunk, pantsless Le Bec-Fin patron, whose behavior she described as “agressive.” From there:
