*Dozens of protesters swarmed a Brooklyn nail salon to call for a boycott after employees served up a beatdown that was captured on surveillance, the New York Post reported.
The NYPD stood guard Monday outside the Asian-run, 888 Happy Red Apple Nails shop as demonstrators held signs saying “BLACK $$$ MATTERS” and chanted slogans including, “Shut them down!” and “No money! No toes! No nails!”
The store’s male and female owners were showered with bottles and shoes when cops led them to an unmarked police cruiser. About an hour later, the store at 1426 Nostrand Ave. in East Flatbush was shuttered, and the remaining workers were driven away in a police van.
The protest followed a violent confrontation inside the salon Friday during which three customers were assaulted by several workers allegedly over a $5 eyebrow wax.
Surveillance and cellphone footage shows the customers being attacked with everything from fists to broomsticks
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Watch raw footage of the beatdown:
Bystander Mercy Maduka, who posted the cellphone footage online, wrote on Instagram that the violence popped off when “the Asian lady in the blue shorts messed up the ladies eyebrow and it was completely bald.”
Salon worker Huiyue Zheng, 32, and customer Christina Thomas, 21, were arrested Friday on charges including misdemeanor assault, harassment and menacing.
Thomas’s mother also hit up the ‘gram to write of the situation: “My Mother, daughter and her friend where attack Friday night by a gang of Asian nail technicians. Why? Because, my daughter refused to pay them for a botched 5$ eyebrow wax.
“Beside them getting hit with sticks, acetone was thrown on them,” she claimed.
A spokesman for Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said, “We are in the process of examining all the evidence in this case, including videos that were not available at the time of arraignment, and will evaluate the charges accordingly.”
Tionna Smalls, 33, said she helped organize Monday’s protest because “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the video.
“You don’t got no respect for this community, then you don’t get no money in this community. That’s it,” Smalls said.
“Shut them down, and they need to be arrested for gang assault. If that was a black salon and that happened, we all would have been locked up.”
A spokesman for Mayor de Blasio declined to comment beyond saying: “We are monitoring the situation closely. We have community liaisons on the ground.”
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