A now-viral video of a violent brawl in a Brooklyn nail bar has surfaced on social media, showing Asian workers beating a female customer. According to a witness, a black woman came to the salon with her two granddaughters to get their nails, toes and eyebrows done. She paid for the nail care and pedicure but refused to dish out $5 for eyebrow wax as her eyebrows were "messed up."
Surveillance footage apparently shows the women in the middle of the conflict. The nail salon employees are seen trying to restrain the black women until the police are called, with both sides repeatedly pushing and punching each other.
In another video of the fight posted on Facebook, an Asian woman is seen raising what looks like the handle of a mop and hitting the black woman's back as the latter was escaping the salon.
According to News12, a nail salon employee is facing charges of assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. The black woman whom she allegedly attacked with a broomstick has also been accused of assault.
The inflammatory video sparked debate on social media, with some users claiming that the black Americans should boycott Asian beauty salons.
Others, however, leapt to the workers' defense, claiming that it were the black women who started the fight.