{"id":9866,"date":"2011-09-15T15:02:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9866"},"modified":"2011-09-15T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T16:38:17","slug":"ex-nba-player-accuses-restaurant-of-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9866","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NBA Player Accuses Restaurant Of Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ATLANTA\u00a0<\/strong> \u2014 A federal jury is hearing a lawsuit filed by a retired NBA All-Star who claims a ritzy Atlanta restaurant discriminated against him and a friend when waiters insisted they give up their seats to white women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Barry Carroll<\/strong> played parts of 10 seasons in the NBA for several teams in the 1980s. He and attorney, <strong>Joseph Shaw,<\/strong> are suing the Tavern at Phipps. They will try to prove during the trial that began Monday that the restaurant has a systematic plan to discourage Black patrons. The two men, who are Black, said they were removed by security guards when they refused to leave their seats.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant has said it often asks men to give up their seats to women at the bar and has denied the discrimination accusations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA\u00a0 \u2014 A federal jury is hearing a lawsuit filed by a retired NBA All-Star who claims a ritzy Atlanta restaurant discriminated against him and a friend when waiters insisted they give up their seats to white women. Joe Barry Carroll played parts of 10 seasons in the NBA for several teams in the 1980s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}