The Asian American family who was subjected to racist abuse after a businessman confronted them at a restaurant in an unprovoked attack refuses to accept the entrepreneur’s apology.
The incident occurred at a Carmel Valley dining place in California where 37-year-old Michael Lofthouse started spewing racial slurs at the family of Raymond Orosa who was sitting nearby.
As seen in the disturbing footage that went viral, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur, who is the CEO of Solid8 startup, called the family “f***ers” and “Asian piece of ****” and told them to leave the planet.
Doubling down on his comments, the CEO later left the following comment on social media: “Leave our planet. Asian f***. Come near me or my people and u r f***ing dea*. Do not start. U f***ing piece of s***.”
The racist abuse only came to a stop after a brave waitress stood up to Lofthouse and told him to leave because he wasn’t allowed at their place after talking to their guests like that.
Following the backlash, Lofthouse allegedly apologized for his actions in a statement obtained by DailyMail.com. Besides expressing he wanted to “deeply apologize” to the victims, the entrepreneur allegedly admitted that his “behavior in the video is appalling.”
Mr. Orosa, however, refused the apology, believing it to be halfhearted and made only to “save face.”
“I think he really meant what he said and what he did. I don’t believe his words because his actions speak louder than the words he say,” Orosa said in an interview with ABC News.
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