Black deliveryman who was handed noose by West Village butcher can't return to work, lawsuit says

[DonViejo]

Source: New York Daily News


BY SHAYNA JACOBS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, July 3, 2017, 4:00 AM

The black deliveryman handed a noose by the owner of the famed Ottomanelli & Sons Meat Market claims he’s too traumatized to go back to work.

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Joe Ottomanelli passed Sheppard a hand-fashioned noose at the butcher shop on April 5 during a morning meat delivery.

“Here is your gift. You can put it around your neck and pull if you want to end it all,” Ottomanelli, 58, said, according to a criminal complaint.

“If you are feeling stressed out I can help you with it.”

Ottomanelli is charged with a hate crime.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/deliveryman-noose-nyc-butcher-return-work-suit-article-1.3295815?cid=bitly

[bettyellen]

1. Holy shit. Otomanelli's is the most well known butcher in NYC! Or at least downtown. Wow he fucked

His family business with that. Idiot.

[not fooled]

7. I hope you're right

but in this day and age, the opposite could happen.

In the age of dump, tragically it's not inconceivable.

[bettyellen]

13. On Bleeker St it's going to hurt them. I think they have a

Place in Queens too. And a steak house. Not sure about those. But I think Bleeker is their flagship and this wil hurt them.

[Paladin]

2. I hope a boycott is in the works. (nt)

[left-of-center2012]

8. From the linked article:

"The Rev. Kevin McCall, the national crisis director of National Action Network, called for a boycott of the beloved meat mecca."

[mercuryblues]

3. I hope he gets a black judge

In what fucking world is it ever okay to hand anyone a noose and say that shit? Oh yeah...trump's world. Maybe he is looking for a job at trump's resort.

[SHRED]

4. Something tells me their business is going to slow down

Hopefully to a bankrupt crawl.

[uppityperson]

5. K&R for broader exposure

[IronLionZion]

6. Dude probably thought there won't be consequences during the era of Trump

And no one told Ottomanelli that there was a time in our history when Italians were lynched on suspicion of being criminals?

[DK504]

10. Right.

If you even think about calling ny Italian person any of the epithets today, you would lose your job.

Can't wait til this guy loses everything. Let's see how he likes it when he has to go on food stamps.

[angstlessk]

15. I think they thought all Italians were anarchists, which

at the time was considered criminal..i.e the most famous case Sacco & Vanzetti..I am sure there were many other less publicized cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti

[IronLionZion]

16. in 1891 they tried to make America great again

by claiming that Italians were Mafia criminals who assassinate police

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14,_1891_lynchings

They made an HBO movie about it called Vendetta with Christopher Walken

[angstlessk]

18. Thanks for that...I was thinking political, but you are correct..

I will look for the movie.

In searching for the movie, I realized I had seen it, but did not know at the time it was a true story.

There is so much history about the US that is never taught!

[IronLionZion]

19. Some historical events are deliberately not taught

I suspect some issues are bit uncomfortable for some people so they just avoid it.

[psychopomp]

9. I wouldn't buy meat there

What a filthy excuse for a man! Who knows what his foul hands touched before he touched the meats?

[robbob]

11. Now the owner is saying it was a long time employee

...who has since been fired. The delivery guy is still insisting it was the boss. Meanwhile, the comment section of Yelp is getting nasty, and the Facebook link seems to be closed.

Bonehead move, whoever did it...

[FakeNoose]

12. How is this acceptable behavior in New York City

It's not even acceptable in the deep South. That butcher must be living in some alternate universe.
How would a man whose family came from another country, feel right about this?

It boggles my mind.

[smirkymonkey]

14. And in the West Village in NYC!

If it was the owner, he just screwed himself royally. Not only was it wrong and evil, it was just downright stupid!

[Honeycombe8]

17. What kind of hatred, what kind of a person does something like that?

I hope he lands in jail and not just a fine.

[nikibatts]

20. The place in the picture really looks like a dump. I shudder to think what he may be serving blacks

[jmowreader]

21. During WWII there were concentration camps for Italians

Little-known history: if you were of Italian heritage and born anywhere outside the US, you were taken to a camp unless your county sheriff would vouch for you. My great grandmother was caught up in this: born in Canada, she hadn't gotten her citizenship when the war broke out. She spent the war confined to Shoshone County, Idaho, with her phone tapped, and couldn't speak Italian on the phone or in public. That she was the biggest bootlegger in North Idaho during Prohibition didn't help matters any.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Italian_Americans