The vice principal of a New Jersey public school was captured on video throwing his beer on several patrons at a restaurant who filmed his wife complaining about a transgender female, a biological male, allegedly using the women’s restroom.
One clip of the rant depicts Michael Smurro, who is the vice principal of Neptune Middle School, in a back-and-forth with fellow customers at Ethel’s Lantern Light Restaurant and Tavern in Smithville, after his wife Lisa took umbrage with someone she described as a transgender female in the lady’s room.
“She’s a man, she was in the woman’s bathroom,” Lisa Smurro is seen telling a waitress. “She’s a man.”
A woman who was sitting nearby during the outdoor exchange asked Smurro to take her “hate” somewhere else, adding that she was behaving inappropriately in front of the other patrons, especially the children present.
Vice principal in New Jersey tosses his beer at innocent people after his wife goes on a transphobic rant pic.twitter.com/A8YfXZRRxh
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) April 28, 2021
“She’s a man,” Lisa Smurro continues to respond while holding what looks like a beer in one hand. “How are you okay with this? What is wrong with everybody?” she asked.
Moments later, Michael Smurro approached holding a beer and wearing a Superman t-shirt and joins in the fray, eventually tossing his drink at the woman lambasting them and taking video of the exchange.
“Here you go, pal,” says Michael Smurro, as he tossed his beer. “There you go. There you go.”
The couple then walked away with Michael Smurro appearing to challenge people to a fight.
“Now you can come out, now you can come out, come on,” he said. “That’s what I thought, as soon we went there, you’d be zero. That’s what I thought. I’m right here.”
Following the exchange, one patron at the eatery and tavern accused Michael Smurro of assault and pressed other patrons to call the police.
Later, according to BreakingAC.com, which was the first outlet to report the incident, a restaurant manager came out and dismissed the idea of calling police.
“She literally just started going off, loud as hell, without cause,” said the woman who filmed the rant in an interview with the outlet.
Some of the beer Michael Smurro threw hit the woman’s boyfriend, who was sitting next to her. Some of the beverage also hit a table where a child was dining, according to the woman who only identified as Carrie.
“It was overall a completely disgusting experience,” she recounted. “[Michael Smurro] assaulted a table with a child at it. He should not be working with children. His wife should especially be far, far away from children.”
But Lisa Smurro told the website that she and her husband were sitting and having a private conversation when Carrie began taking video of them. “This all began because somebody was in a bathroom that they shouldn’t have been in,” Lisa Smurro told the outlet. “He, she, whatever it was that day, it came into the women’s bathroom that they shouldn’t have.”
Officials at the Neptune Township School District are reportedly investigating the incident, according to a statement.
“This event is troubling as its perception potentially threatens the social-emotional well-being and climate of belonging that our Neptune School District community represents,” said Superintendent Dr. Tami Crader, noting further that officials are “taking this matter seriously.”
Michael Smurro has since apologized for his actions and his wife’s behavior.
“I do not condone violence or discrimination of any kind and should have simply walked away,” he told the Associated Press earlier this week.
“I apologize to the person I threw my beer at and wish I hadn’t done so. I apologize to anyone I offended.”
DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW
Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!
[email protected]
Jon is a staff writer for BizPac Review with 30 years' worth of reporting experience, as well as an author and U.S. Army veteran. He has a BA in political science from Ashford University and an MA in national security studies/intelligence analysis from American Military University.
- Jan. 6 committee chair Benny Thompson offers a stunning take on potential Trump criminal actions - January 2, 2022
- Life-long New Yorker posts ‘sad’ Twitter ode on post-pandemic Big Apple being ‘shadow of its former self’ - January 2, 2022
- NYPD officer shot in head in police lot as he slept in vehicle between shifts - January 2, 2022
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
BPR INSIDER COMMENTS
Scroll down for non-member comments or join our insider conversations by becoming a member. We'd love to have you!
