Ex-Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Claims Restaurant Bounced Her Over Leggings

Keisha Lance Bottoms claims a restaurant refused to let her dine once they felt she wasn't dressed up sufficient — and it seems like she thinks one thing nefarious could be afoot.

The previous mayor of Atlanta tweeted out her alleged expertise Friday, writing … “I used to be simply turned away at @CapitalGrille at Perimeter Mall as a result of I've on leggings. 🤷🏽‍♀️” Whereas she did not counsel a racial ingredient in her preliminary remarks, she later adopted up with extra information.

WSBTV anchor Kristen Holloway identified that Capital Grille does, certainly, have a gown code … one thing they notice on their web site. Among the many articles of clothes they apparently do not permit — fitness center apparel, sweat pants, tank tops, hats, uncovered undergarments, and many others.

However, KLB begged to vary … suggesting any individual got here proper after her that she appears to have felt wasn't as much as snuff both, however was allowed entry regardless.

She wrote, “Odd {that a} restaurant in a mall car parking zone turns away prospects in ‘mall’ apparel. Requested if I might sit within the bar space and was instructed, ‘No.'”

Keisha provides, “Guidelines are the foundations, simply  surprise if the girl who got here in instantly after me, who I didn't see come again out, was additionally denied service.” The ex-mayor did not elaborate additional, so it is unclear what precisely the opposite woman may've been sporting.

Whereas Keisha herself did not explicitly allege racism, folks had been fast to make that leap … digging up pictures purportedly displaying white people on the similar restaurant in very caj getups, together with the identical sorts of gear CG bans on their web site. So, some see a double commonplace.

KLB hasn't chimed in additional, and Capital Grille itself has been mum … having but to remark publicly on her accusation. No phrase on what extra, if something, could come of this.

FWIW, that is removed from the primary time in latest reminiscence that an individual of colour has accused a flowery restaurant of discrimination by the veil of a gown code … it occurred again in 2020, when a mother alleged precisely that in Baltimore — and even took the problem to courtroom.