A viral video showing a group of white men beating a Black customer at a Fort Wayne, Indiana, bar sparked considerable outrage and a quick rationalization from the establishment’s owner.

“There are two sides to every story,” Pike’s Pub owner Kelly Rost, who was not present when the fight occurred last Friday night, said the melee originated after the Black man refused to pay his tab.

But a witness to the fight, who knows the victim, said Rost is dead wrong.

“The bartender told him he could have another drink,” the witness told WANE-TV in Fort Wayne. “The owner’s boyfriend told him he was cut off. And the owner’s boyfriend was way more drunk than he was.”

Rost’s boyfriend appeared to be on a power trip when he kicked the Black man, a regular customer, out of the bar, said the witness, w

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