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The most damaging of those, Cordish officials say, are allegations that Cordish employed white people as “rabbits” to provoke altercations with black people as an excuse to eject minorities from district clubs in 2012 and 2013.Cusimano said he was instructed by his supervisor to employ rabbits as a way to “lighten up” the district by ejecting “thugs.” Cusimano said he had qualms about the practice, but needed the job. His rabbit of choice, he said, was an old acquaintance named Tom Alexitch.In a signed affidavit, Alexitch said that in exchange for starting fights that led to ejections, he was given free drinks and cash, ranging from $50 to $150 a night.At a Kansas City coffee shop Thursday afternoon, Alexitch told The Star that one way he started trouble was to walk up to groups of black men and insult or flirt with their dates.“Mostly comments toward their girlfriends, hitting on their girlfriend. Just be belligerent,” he said. “It would start to erupt into stuff and I’d say, ‘You want to go at it,’ just make a lot of noise before you get your ass kicked and then the bouncers would fly in, break it all up and kick us all out.”While the African Americans would be kicked out for the night, Alexitch said he was allowed to return and start more trouble, if instructed to.Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/08/5011035/kansas-city-power-light-district.html#storylink=cpy
QuoteThe most damaging of those, Cordish officials say, are allegations that Cordish employed white people as “rabbits” to provoke altercations with black people as an excuse to eject minorities from district clubs in 2012 and 2013.Cusimano said he was instructed by his supervisor to employ rabbits as a way to “lighten up” the district by ejecting “thugs.” Cusimano said he had qualms about the practice, but needed the job. His rabbit of choice, he said, was an old acquaintance named Tom Alexitch.In a signed affidavit, Alexitch said that in exchange for starting fights that led to ejections, he was given free drinks and cash, ranging from $50 to $150 a night.At a Kansas City coffee shop Thursday afternoon, Alexitch told The Star that one way he started trouble was to walk up to groups of black men and insult or flirt with their dates.“Mostly comments toward their girlfriends, hitting on their girlfriend. Just be belligerent,” he said. “It would start to erupt into stuff and I’d say, ‘You want to go at it,’ just make a lot of noise before you get your ass kicked and then the bouncers would fly in, break it all up and kick us all out.”While the African Americans would be kicked out for the night, Alexitch said he was allowed to return and start more trouble, if instructed to.Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/08/5011035/kansas-city-power-light-district.html#storylink=cpySo racism aside, wow, professional PI'rs. Maybe luked, I never read the KC things thread and it's too long to start now.
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