Tom Austin pictured through the video that went viral on Could 27.
Tom Austin is the Minneapolis enterprise capitalist who’s accused of “racially profiling” three black males in a fitness center within the metropolis.
The allegations towards Austin, 53, had been made by the entrepreneurs behind the advertising and marketing start-up Prime Determine. Within the video, Austin identifies himself by identify. In line with Prime Determine’s Instagram account, the incident occurred within the personal fitness center within the Mozaic East workplace constructing alongside Lagoon Avenue within the metropolis at 7:51 p.m. on Could 26. Across the identical time, hundreds of individuals in Minneapolis had taken to the streets to protest the killing of unarmed black man George Floyd by police within the metropolis on Could 25.
The put up stated that Prime Determine has maintained an workplace in Mozaic East for over a 12 months whereas they’ve grown their enterprise. The put up accuses Austin of racially profiling the boys and of asking them in the event that they “belong” within the fitness center. Austin can also be accused of demanding to see the group’s key playing cards and threatens them with calling the police. The put up ends with the phrases:
We’re sick and uninterested in tolerating this sort of conduct on a everyday foundation and we really feel that we needed to convey gentle onto this case.
READ NEXT: Teenage Porn Star Controversy Rocks California Excessive College