Originally Posted by
Gertjaars
What would you do if you were waiting on the line as Diamond and this occurred to you as you were being called next? Looks like the staff at Hilton Copacabana hardly interfered to help him. The twitter thread mentioned he is pressing charges against the property and is seeking compensation from Hilton.
1.) I think if someone cut in line on me, I'd let it slide and de-escalate instead of taking actions that could end up with jail time, a busted nose, a civil suit, or someone being killed.
2.) Whomever is talking in that video is annoying as heck.
3.) The video only shows the last moment of an exciting conflict, but we can't really draw a conclusion as to what happened, other than there's a lot of what looks to be hotel staff present / probably trying to get people separated. Race baiting, level of intoxication, prior argument, etc. is all conjecture - and possibly just being tossed out there for clicks and controversy. While we haven't seen any video showing racist behavior, just possibly drunk or angry people fighting, that "King" tweeter person is being overtly racist in many of their tweets. King is clearly trying to instigate/stir up anger, and is trying to bait Hilton into replying/looking for free stuff, trying to fuel internet controversy, etc.
4.) We don't have any proof of what happened prior to video we're being shown. (Personally, when looking at that few seconds, the swimsuit girl crossed a line and initiated conflict *in that instance*, but the long haired guest punched the tall guy even though there was no aggression shown on his part *in that instance*. I only know U.S. law on assault, no clue as to this country, but here? Both the woman and the long haired guest could face charges.)
5.) Like many conflicts, this was probably a bad combination/meeting of two groups of angry, possibly drunk people that didn't mix well.
6.) Unless a lot more facts come out, Hilton doesn't owe anyone anything. Some front desk gal wouldn't be expected to endanger herself by wading into and refereeing a barfight. There's a large employee (Security?) presence shown there, and it looks like they're trying to sort it out. There's assumedly two security folks who are shown trying to keep woman away from the long-haired guest guy, so Hilton is NOT "not hardly interfering to help him" -- there's no one on him, but at least two trying to watch her aggressive behavior without actually going hands-on with her (which could lead to its own harassment issues). but the guests are the only parties that look like they'd be blamed, not Hilton.