An Atlanta sushi restaurant owner has apologized after a Black couple said they were discriminated against when they were escorted out of the establishment for a dress-code violation.
Kaylan Colbert, an attorney, said she and her husband made a reservation for a birthday dinner at Umi but when they arrived, staff refused to serve them because her husband was wearing sneakers.
At some point, Colbert starts recording the at times heated discussion in a video which now has more than 90,000 views on Instagram and was shared on Twitter by nationally recognized civil rights lawyer Ben Crump. Her husband, who is wearing white Nike Air Force 1 shoes and is identified only as Steve in the video, points out to the staff that another patron sitting at the bar is wearing Adidas sneakers as the managers try to move the conversation outside.
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