A Maryland man has filed a lawsuit against a local bar, Dan’s Restaurant & Taphouse in Boonsboro, for discrimination, claiming he was banned from the premises for being an “old white” guy.
Neal Glessner, 52, who is seeking $500,000 in compensation, alleged that he was rudely booted from the bar on Feb. 18, 2022, after complaining out loud that his to-go order was taking over 40 minutes to prepare.
After he left with his order, manager Mike Skinner allegedly asked Glessner’s friend, identified as Circuit Court Judge Joseph Michael, to tell Glessner he was banned.
However, when Michael refused to pass on Skinner’s message, the irate manager allegedly yelled at him that “You old, white people act like you own everything. Get the f–k out of here!”
Glessner stated that he subsequently learned of Dan’s “history of demonstrating animus towards white people.” Glessner, who runs an IT solutions and hardware company, claims that at least a half-dozen other white men have been banned from Dan’s for “otherwise inexplicable reasons.”
However, Charlotte Aufdem-Brinke, who co-owns the restaurant with her ex-husband, Dan Aufdem-Brinke, blasted Glessner’s suit as “frivolous” on Facebook last week and said Glessner was asked to leave due to repeated occurrences of disruptive behavior against members of their team.
Local far-right activist Shaun Porter rallied a small group of protestors to wield “Old White Men’s Lives Matter” and “It Is Okay to be White” signs outside the business on Sunday. Glessner clarified in a statement that “anyone who thinks this is about BLM, Trump, or any other political issue is ignoring the facts to promote a political agenda that is not mine.”
In her own statement, Aufdem-Brinke told the Mail that Glessner’s suit was grounded “solely on his animosity toward my personal views and our advocacy for social and economic justice.”
She also called his efforts a weak attempt to “bully a successful small businesswoman and community activist into submission.” In a Facebook update on Tuesday, Dan’s confirmed that the taphouse was back in business after giving staffers off on Monday for a much-needed day of rest.
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