The Alchemist bar is once again on the spot for all the wrong reasons barely a month after being accused of racism.
This is after a video of the bar’s bouncers manhandling a woman emerged on social media. The video was taken and shared by a woman identified as Mwikali on Twitter.
It is not clear what led to the standoff but the woman in the video was dragged outside the bar as made several attempts to enter the premises. As a female bouncer was dragging her out, she nearly got undressed.
“When you see how these Alchemist bouncers manhandled this woman last night you understand why we need to #ShutDownAlchemist.I don’t know what the altercation was about, but you can see the bouncers trying to physically restrain the woman, dragging her, attempting to carry her, and finally leaving her.,” Mwikali wrote.
She further said that the bouncers came for her demanding her to delete the video after realizing that she was recording the incident.
“I refused and I asked if I could leave but they stood in front of me, and one of them tried to grab my arm. I told them not to touch me and that I wanted to leave. They stood in front of me and said they would get the manager first,” she narrated.
When you see how these Alchemist bouncers manhandled this woman last night you understand why we need to #ShutDownAlchemist pic.twitter.com/C1OfX3lyn8
— Mwikali. (@mwikaliiii) June 26, 2022
The manager however said that she did not have to delete the video but would look into the matter to establish the cause of the altercation. The bar is yet to make an official statement concerning the incident.
The bar hit headlines a few weeks ago after the bouncers were captured turning away a black man at an entrance that was allegedly secluded for the whites and Indians. The reports caused an uproar on social media with Kenyans demanding for the bar to be shut down.
That was not the first time the bar was facing such accusations as there are similar reports some years back.
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