Hollywood- Super Bowl MVP Terrell Davis claims he was assaulted by security guards at the Tropicana Bar at the Hollywood Hotel Roosevelt because one of his friends, a black man, had the temerity to speak to a white waitress. Davis says the attack came at a post-Emmy Awards party on Sept. 18, when hostess and co-defendant Amanda Scheer-Demme allegedly ordered the attack. Davis claims assault and battery, emotional distress, and civil rights violations. He is represented by William J. Briggs II with Lavely & Singer.
The complaint begins: "It appears that not even the City of Angels can escape a hate crime. A hate crime based on race. In a throw-back (sic) to an era when a black man who gazed upon a white woman would be lynched, that despicable practice has reared its ugly head in the form of club bouncers who physically assaulted a black man who dared to speak with LA's newest club host, Amanda Scheer-Demme.
"Too hip for her own good or too full of herself. It seems that in an effort to run the latest hot and trendy club/bar in town, Amanda Scheer-Demme is not only highly selective of who crosses the velvet rope into the four-month old Tropicana Bar at the Hollywood Hotel Roosevelt, Amanda Scheer-Demme also uses her goose-stepping security guards to physically assault and batter invited guests."
Briggs continues the animal metaphor by transforming the goose-stepping security guards into "uniformed gorillas" and "attack dogs."
"Black men need not apply to the lofty status of being on Scheer-Demme's guest list at the Tropicana," the complaint states. "And, if you are a black man who attends an event at the Tropicana which is hosted by someone in the Hollywood industry, you must beware that to speak to Scheer-Demme will be at your own peril."
