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International incident lands Theater District bar in hot water
By adamg on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 2:16pm
An Irishman who took offense to a German woman being in the Tam on St. Patrick's Day head butted her in the nose, sending her to the hospital and the bar to the Boston Licensing Board.
At a hearing this morning, Boston Police Sgt. Adam Mazzola said a man with "an Irish accent" became "very hostile" when he learned a woman next to him held a German passport, to the point of ramming her nose with his head, causing a laceration and possibly breaking her nose.
A bar worker escorted the Germanophobe out of the crowded establishment. The woman and her companion, he said, went to nearby Tufts Medical Center for treatment.
Mazzola cited the bar for failing to call police. A bar manager told the board she would have, except that somebody told her the victim was in the ladies' room and she planned to talk to her first, but then it turned out the woman had managed to leave for the hospital by herself.
"I didn't call police because nobody was there anymore," she said, adding that at that point she didn't know the woman had been hurt and that she definitely would have called had she known that.
The board decides Thursday what action, if any, to take.
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Just a quick reminder to Germans
You'd be advised to stay away from Irish, Portuguese, Irish, Italians, Greeks, and Spanish if they've been drinking.
What's the bar's liability
What's the bar's liability here? Is it general practice to call the police in a situation like this?
Given my (limited) experience with BPD, I could imagine that a responding officer might respond, "Well, what do you want me to do?" if the manager reported that there was a fight among two unidentified patrons, both of whom have already left the premises.
They are supposed to call police
In fact, they can get in trouble with the licensing board if they don't (Tavern in the Square in Allston got its license suspended for a day for failing to call police about a fight).
Whether police do something is another issue (and often, what they do is both investigate the incident and then issue a citation to the bar for "assault and battery, patron on patron," which means a trip to the licensing board).