Aaron Schlossberg apologized Tuesday for remarks he made about Spanish speakers in a Manhattan deli that were captured on video and went viral.
Schlossberg, a New York attorney, was caught on video telling a deli manager that staff should not be speaking to customers in Spanish and alleging that the Spanish-speaking customers may not be legal residents of the U.S.
Schlossberg also threatened in the video to call ICE on the employees.
“My guess is they’re not documented, so my next call is to ICE to have each one of them kicked out of my country,” he said in the video, which was posted to Facebook. “If they have the balls to come here and live off my money — I pay for their welfare. I pay for their ability to be here. The least they can do — the least they can do — is speak English.”
After the video went viral on social media, Schlossberg was pursued by reporters but refused to make a statement or answer questions. Other video emerged showing Schlossberg being confrontational with protesters in front of Trump Tower wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and calling a YouTube vlogger an ugly (expletive) foreigner,” The Washington Post reported.
Schlossberg apologized on Twitter and LinkedIn on Tuesday, saying the way he expressed himself was not “the person I am.”
“I am not racist,” he insisted, adding that he loves the diversity of New York City.
Schlossberg’s apology stopped short of disavowing the views he espoused in the video, however.
U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat and Bronx borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. filed a complaint against Schlossberg to have his law license suspended, Espaillat told CNN.
The company from which Schlossberg rents his law office, Corporate Suites, also said it was terminating his agreement to operate there because of the video, CNN reported.
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