NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Republican New York City Mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa weighed in on the ongoing Carmine's brawl controversy Tuesday night, visiting the Upper West Side spot and targeted Black Lives Matter protesters who argued discrimination, not vaccine status led to the viral fight.
Sliwa and his wife Nancy dined at the West 90th Street and Broadway location and blasted BLM protesters who demonstrated Monday.
He also bashed his rival Democratic Nominee Eric Adams in a video released on his Twitter account.
"You might have heard that my opponent Eric Adams denounced what happened last night?" Sliwa said in the video. "Then-again how could he, he spent the summer of 2019 with [Mayor] Bill de Blasio painting Black Lives Matter on the streets of New York City."
The Guardian Angels founder called the BLM protest "disturbing" to The New York Post after the three Texas women were arrested and later accused the Italian restaurant's hostess of using a racial slur against them.
However, the story first went viral after the restaurant said the tourists refused to show proof of vaccination which precipitated the fight and the arrests.
“And I saw they were over the top, disturbing everything,” he said.
Restaurant owner Jeffrey Bank released new surveillance footage of the fight and criticized the womens' accusations.
“My team members work too hard to serve our guests, work too hard to comply with New York’s vaccination requirements, and still suffer too much from the attack for me to allow these false statements to stand,” said Bank in a statement.