Off-Duty Officer’s Friends Trash Chinese Restaurant When Asked To Wear a Mask

Off-Duty Officer’s Friends Trash Chinese Restaurant When Asked To Wear a MaskOff-Duty Officer’s Friends Trash Chinese Restaurant When Asked To Wear a Mask
A group of customers turned violent toward owners of a Chinese restaurant in Plymouth County, Massachusetts after being told to wear face masks.
 
Violence over face masks: Surveillance cameras inside The Ming Dynasty Restaurant in Marshfield showed an unruly group causing a disturbance in the establishment, with a 49-year-old woman knocking down the store’s protective plexiglass, WHDH reports. 
  • According to owner Lei Yan, the customers entered the restaurant without wearing any masks. 
  • As part of their safety measures, they asked the group to wear face masks.
  • Instead of complying with the request, the group took offense from not being served drinks and turned violent. 
  • Lei Yan felt her husband’s life was put in danger during the commotion.
  • “She was pushing my husband and smashed my front desk,” Lei Yan shared.
  • It was later found that one of the members of the rowdy group was an off-duty police officer, reported WCVB.
  • Restaurant co-owner Jimmy Tian said the officer said something along the lines of: “I’m a police officer, I don’t need a mask.”
  • Tian narrated that the officer even showed his police ID to the people inside the entire restaurant.
  • Quincy Police has reportedly launched an internal investigation regarding the officer’s conduct.
  • No one has been arrested following the incident.
Damned if you do: Enforcing face mask regulations had not been easy for many small businesses like The Ming Dynasty, which was suspended a day for non-enforcement a month ago by the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission.
  • After being cited for having customers without masks last month, Yan said: “I’m so sorry for what I did wrong. I know my difficulty is my difficulty, we don’t want to bring our difficulties to the government, even though we make less money than those on unemployment.”
  • The restaurant has since been placed under regular spot checks by the Board of Health, according to WHDH
Feature Image via WCVB Channel 5 Boston
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