Black Couple Files Racial Discrimination Lawsuit After Being Kicked Out of Restaurant for Allegedly Smelling “Like Weed”

A Black couple who were kicked out of a restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, last year for allegedly smelling like marijuana filed a federal racial discrimination lawsuit against the eatery last week.

Dechandria Bass and her boyfriend, Dwan Brown, of Coahoma County in Mississippi, were in Tennessee on Aug. 7 to visit Brown’s mother and cousin, according to the suit, filed Thursday in federal court.

The couple met up with the family members at Houston’s Restaurant on Poplar Avenue in Memphis.

Shortly after they arrived, restaurant manager Kayla Hollins, who is white, went to the group’s table and told the couple to leave because “they smelled like weed,” according to the lawsuit.

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