Trump Supporters Say They Were Ejected From Zeitgeist For Their Politics; Bar Says Otherwise [Video]

Trump Supporters Say They Were Ejected From Zeitgeist For Their Politics; Bar Says Otherwise [Video]Photo: Alisa Scerrato/Hoodline
Jessica Park
Published on October 03, 2016

In an incident somewhat reminiscent of 2014's infamous Google Glass-related run-in at Lower Haight dive bar Molotov's, another video of a clash inside a dive bar emerged today, this time from Trump supporters who say they were violently ejected from Zeitgeist for their political preferences.

The video was uploaded to Youtube today, along with commentary from the individuals who took the cameraphone video as they were being ejected from the bar. They wrote:

While in San Francisco, we popped into a bar called Zeitgeist. The blue-haired barmaid at the counter pointed to my friend's MAGA shirt and asked "are you serious?" He responded "yes". She replied "we're not going to serve you. you need to leave". Another bartender offered to get us a drink but the bluehair come back to chastise him: "don't serve these bigots". We engaged the bluehair by asking what about our positions offended her so deeply. Her response was that we're bigots, need to leave, and that there was nothing to discuss. She left the bar counter to grab some thugs to kick us out and this is when the recording starts. I was walking (and at some point) running backwards while recording so the camera is a bit shaky.

The narrator says that the video shows the bouncer trying to pry his phone away, throwing a punch, and chasing him into the middle of the street.

Here's the video:

We contacted Zeitgeist GM Gideon Bush for details on what may have happened. He said that the incident happened two or three months ago, and that the ejection was prompted, not by politics, but by a sexist comment made by the offending party. As bar policy goes, he said, they have the right to kick people people out of the bar if they say something hateful or harmful directed at individual. 

Bush also denied that the bouncer used violence or took a swing, as the man alleges in the video post.

Alisa Scerrato contributed reporting to this story.