Sunday brunch turned ugly forTomi Lahren.
The Fox News firebrand reportedly was involved in a confrontation while out to brunch at a rooftop restaurant in Minneapolis over the weekend—and it culminated in one critic tossing a drink at her.
Footage from the incident that was posted to Twitter showed Lahren, 25, leaning over a table, apparently in the middle of a heated exchange with a fellow patron.
Another video showed a woman throwing a drink at Lahren as she walked out of the restaurant.
Several other detractors can be heard shouting obscenities at Lahren in athird, NSFW video postedon Twitter.
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But even some of Lahren’s fiercest critics spoke out against physically attacking. Comic Kathy Griffin tweeted: “I couldn’t disagree more with @TomiLahren, but I don’t think it’s cool to resort to physical actions to make your point.”
Lahren has yet to publicly address the incident. But according to The Blast, her mother did in real time.
After the drink — reportedly water — was tossed in Lahren’s direction, Jackson said he stepped in to break up the disagreement. “I said [to Lahren], ‘I’d like to separate you all if can please –’ and she responded, ‘You’re just going to kick me out for them throwing water? Unbelievable.’ ”
Jackson explained that he was not throwing her out, but said Lahren walked out anyway. He later escorted out the woman who threw the drink.
Witness Devan Madison also told The Blast that his friend was serving Lahren and her mother at the restaurant and that, “My friend told me she [Tomi] was extremely rude and had a big attitude.” Madison claims that after the drink was thrown at Lahren, “literally the entire restaurant started cheering.”
The Fox News contributor has often courted outrage in the past.
Nearly 60,000 people signed a petition calling for her firing aftershe compared Black Lives Matter to the KKKin a since-deleted tweet,The Wrapreported.
Lahren has also faced criticism for claiming that Beyoncé’s 2016 Super Bowl performance was intended to “politicize and advance the notion that black lives matter more,” and more recently, for thehypocrisy of her anti-immigrant viewsgiven that she herself descended from non-English-speaking immigrants.
source: people.com
