White businessman's office lease terminated after calling police on black men at his gym in Minn.

[sunonmars]

Karma's a bitch......

https://news.sky.com/story/white-businessmans-office-lease-terminated-after-calling-police-on-black-men-at-his-gym-in-minneapolis-11996125

A white businessman has had his office lease terminated after a viral video showed him calling the police on a group of black entrepreneurs who he claimed had no right to be in his gym.

Social media startup Team Top Figure shared a video of their interaction with venture capitalist Tom Austin in their office building gym in Minneapolis on Tuesday night.

The clip, which has had more than 50,000 likes on Instagram, shows him taking pictures of the men and accusing them of not being tenants of the building in Minnesota.

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These racists shits are going to learn the hard way......he also said, "if it were a bunch of women, i'd have done the same thing"....so he hates women too, he's not helping himself here is he?

[Mike 03]

1. Whoa, shit's getting real for racists.

[SayItLoud]

21. Power of the purse or right thinking?

Do the companies fire the racists, cancel their leases because of the racism or the potential loss of $ ? Until I am sure which way it is I will continue to make my thoughts known to the companies where the racists work. Using the reach of social media to share my views about the situation and to let them know I and others have the power of the purse.

[wcast]

22. Excellent point

It is almost exclusively power of the purse, just like the Montgomery bus boycott. Green is green and, sad to say, is the only thing that catalyzes real change.

[aggiesal]

26. I believe it's both ...

They don't want to be associated with racism because they know it will hurt their financial bottom line.

[UpInArms]

2. What in the world?

For the life of me, I cannot wrap my head around how some people think.

What allows them to believe they were born so freaking special.

I demand to see their birth applications showing how they chose the “white” box.

[mercuryblues]

3. So only white males

are allowed to be out in public.

[sunonmars]

5. The guy obviously would fit right into an episode of the handmaids tale easily, it would seem.

He's a right piece of shit in reality.

[Clash City Rocker]

4. "If you were a bunch of women, I would have done the same thing." Huh?

That doesn’t help his argument that he’s not a racist. If it was a group of white men, what would he have done? I’m guessing nothing.

[Lochloosa]

6. Introduced himself, thinking of future clients.

Which is what he should have done in the first place.

[johndaly]

13. "Good afternoon. I would like to intorduce myself, I am Tom Austin...

I have a venture capital enterprise in this building and would like to invite you gentlemen to stop by sometime and we could talk about investment possibilities that will improve all our portfolios."

Imagine how the universe would be today if he had dared to have such a conversation with these men. Instead, he is Today's Amy Cooper...

[Iggo]

24. It'd be a whole different world for him today...

...if he had just been a decent human being.

[qwlauren35]

7. I see a new "peaceful resistance movement" coming.

And I like it.

Hit them where they hurt.

No, they can't be arrested. But they can be fired, their businesses can be threatened. All perfectly legal.

Let them learn that it is wrong to be racist, and there are consequences. And they can be painful.

[wnylib]

15. I hope you are right about

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a peaceful resistance movement. It looks like it's needed now as much as ever.

I get it that people need to vent their anger and I am not surprised that it breaks out in riots. It's surprising that it hasn't happened sooner.

But there are people who want to provoke a race war as an excuse to come down even more heavy-handed on POC. Riots play into their hands.

To be effective in making these killings and terrorizing confrontations stop, the energy from that anger could create a more organized national movement of peaceful activism. Vigils, organized protest days nationwide, public statements from well known and well respected people. Keeping social distancing in mind and practice, of course.

Change the attitude that cops are always justified, that POC are fair game. Build support for change.

It shouldn't be necessary. But it is in order to stop a growing police state attitutude of terrorizing and killing a select part of the population.

[MaryMagdaline]

20. Qwlauren35 I completely agree

For people who have no shame, let them get the message ... they will pay a financial and social price. Just as black people have been redlined and shunned from physical spaces, racists will be found out and excluded. It’s either be a decent person or be gone.

My sympathy for these people is nil. We’ve had decades to learn to adjust. No excuses.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. the deplorables are not popular with me, but I can't imagine reporting them

[Sherman A1]

9. Good

May he not be able to find a new place to lease.

[GeorgeGist]

10. Assholes be dumb.

[IronLionZion]

11. "If you were a bunch of women, I would have done the same thing."

More like, if only minorities and women learned their place and stopped being so damn uppity, I wouldn't have to call in the public executioners to end your worthless lives.

[mainer]

19. Yeah, he's not helping his case

WTF with that "if you were women" excuse?

[brer cat]

25. Exactly! nt

[Scarsdale]

12. Swift action should ALWAYS be taken

in cases such as this. The woman in Central Park, and the police officer in Minneapolis. Slowly but surely, the wheels of justice grind.

[NoMoreRepugs]

14. Empowered by the RUMP plain and simple.

Scary thing is there are millions, possibly tens of millions of these Deplorable individuals.

[zanana1]

16. Now we know how widespread racism is, thanks to Donnie.

[IluvPitties]

18. That's MAGA for you.

Making Bigotry Great Again.

[HAB911]

17. I hope to see more "the rest of the story' accounts like this

I can't imagine how many incidents go unreported and passed over

[IronLionZion]

23. As if people would break into an office building to illegally use the gym

he's not just racist, he's an idiot. These places tend to have key cards and security guards to get past first. It's not worth it.

And he called 911 instead of building security because of their race.

[aggiesal]

27. "If it were a bunch of women ..." WTF?

What about "If it were a bunch of white men ..."?

We're you born an @$$h0le or did you have to learn to be an @$$h0le?

[rurallib]

28. 50,000 likes on Instagram

does that me 50,000 approved of the racism or the fact that Mr. Austin shows what a POS he is?

[Johnny2X2X]

29. The entitlement is unreal

As if he has the right to treat people like they're children. "You kids supposed to be here without an adult?" Who does he think he is?

Love seeing people face consequences for racism.

[Cha]

30. JHC They're STUPID!