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SPOTLIGHT
Workers At Nail Salon Attack Women After They Refused To Pay For Botched Eyebrow Job
NEW YORK - Workers at a Brooklyn nail salon assaulted a family of Black women after one of the women refused to pay for what she considered to be a botched eyebrow job.
The incident occurred Fri- day, August 3, at New Red Apple Nails on Nostrand Ave., in East Flatbush. Salon em- ployees beat three Black women with a metal rod in the salon after the mom didn't like how her daughter's eyebrows were waxed and refused to pay. Video footage captured and posted by Facebook user Mercy Maduka shows salon workers surrounding a woman as one of the workers starts hit- ting the woman with a rod. Two other women are being detained by a worker, despite being whacked by the rod a few times, as well.
"That's my grandmother," one lady can be heard yelling.
"So I’m at the nail salon, and they f**ked up a lady eye- brow, and she refused to pay then a fight broke outtt," Maduka wrote in the caption of the original video. "Hitting
Scene from the attack that was captured on video.
them like animals."
When local activists caught
wind of the incident, they came together to protest in front of the salon. While the footage captures the ending of the brawl, Facebook user Em- press Ak says that not only were the women assaulted with rods, they also had acetone
thrown in their face.
"I am standing with the
elder who had thrown acetone in her face while her grand- daughter was attacked," she wrote. "The young lady paid for her feet/nails but refused to pay for her eyebrows because she was unsatisfied."
According to a video posted to Instagram by Tamika D. Mallory, the eyebrow wax was only $5, a low price to begin abusing Black women.
The New York Daily News reports 32-year-old Huiyue Zheng was charged with as- sault and weapon possession, according to police. She was later released on personal re- cognizance after a hearing Sat- urday in Brooklyn Criminal Court. The assaulted customer, Christina Thomas, was booked on misdemeanor as- sault and other charges; how- ever, she was also released on personal recognizance.
Several signs were posted on the salon’s metal shutter reading “Black $$$ matter,” “They beat Black women here” and “Don’t spend here."
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