Golf course that called the police on black women loses business, faces call for state investigation By Rachel Siegel April 27, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. EDT Grandview Golf Club in York, Pa., apologized for calling police after the course's owners said a group of African American women were playing "too slow." (Video: Sandra Thompson/YouTube)
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Rachel Siegel. In the days after white golf course owners called the police on five African American women they said were not playing fast enough, a Pennsylvania state senator has called for an investigation into the incident and the club is losing local business.
(CNN) A group of African American women who allege that management at a Pennsylvania golf course mistreated them when they called police because they were playing too slowly are now taking legal action.
Two of them are now suing the course. (CNN) A group of African American women who allege that management at a Pennsylvania golf course mistreated them when they called police because they were playing too slowly are now taking legal action.
Video footage taken by one of the women shows the club’s co-owner, Jordan Chronister, saying he had been timing the women. He interrupts them in a mocking tone and tells the women to leave before the police arrived. The police have said that once officers arrived at the course, it was clear that law enforcement did not need to be involved.
Police were called on these five women for allegedly golfing too slowly at Grandview Golf Course in Pennsylvania. Two of them are now suing the course. (CNN) A group of African American women who allege that management at a Pennsylvania golf course mistreated them when they called police because they were playing too slowly are now taking legal ...
The lawsuit alleges that an owner told a member of their group that they weren't keeping pace and treated them differently than other players on the course, who the lawsuit says were Caucasian and male. The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and requests compensatory and punitive damages but does not list a specific amount.
In a statement to CNN, the lawyers representing Ojo and Crosby said that the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission made an objective determination that their clients were harassed, and therefore are continuing to federal court.
When another group arrived at 10th tee at the same time as they did, the lawsuit states, the group told them to go ahead because they were taking a break. When the women started to play, Jordan Chronister, an employee at Grandview, came up to the women and told them they could not "cut people off," according to the lawsuit.
Myneca Ojo and Karen Crosby, two of the five women involved in the 2018 incident, filed a racial and gender discrimination lawsuit on Monday against Brew Vino LLC, which owns Grandview Golf Course, as well as several employees involved.