We arrived at Hubbard Inn Between 12am-1am on September 19th, 2021 and went immediately to the bar after being admitted to the second floor, to purchase drinks when a man (slightly heavyset with a curly/Afro hairstyle and goes by Ade´ on social media apparently) who was later said to be a promoter (by the "head of the security" guards--a white man in checkered shirt) approached the bar and pushed me aside to step in front of me.
I assumed it must have been a mistake and I proceeded to try to place my order for my drink when he pushed me again while loudly chatting to another man at the bar. I turned to look at him and told him do not touch me or put your hands on me. He insisted on pushing me aside. I repeated to him to not put his hands on me when he began getting irate and demanded for us to leave. The way he carried on, I assumed he owned the venue and I couldn't believe an owner of such a nice establishment would be treating customers like this.
He walked away to yell in the ear of a security guard with cornrows (he appeared to be in his 40s) about this matter in what looked to be an angry manner.
I honestly felt a little unsafe at this point due to how irrational the man was behaving, but considering what he'd done, I didn't think the security guard would throw us out. I continued placing an order for our drinks when even the bar tender (a young white woman) at the time apologized to me for the man harassing me and in her words, "being a d***".
After getting our drinks, the security guard with cornrows Began loudly demanding for us to leave. I told him we had done nothing wrong when the security guard in the cornrows began angrily yelling "THIS HIS PARTY AND YOU NOT FINNA TELL ME WHAT YOU AINT GON DO!!". I felt even more unsafe and horribly confused and afraid at how these men were both now carrying on. The security guard in the cornrows continued yelling about how "THIS HIS PARTY AND HE SAID YALL NEED TO LEAVE" when the white man in a checkered shirt appears. The guy in the cornrows was adamant about trying to remove us from the establishment by loudly demanding for us to leave.
The white man in the checkered shirt told us he needs to escort us to another floor instead (I'm assuming to remove us from the vicinity of the man who pushed me).
I told him this isn't fair because we did nothing wrong-- in fact, he (the wild drunk angry party promoter guy) was the one who approached the bar and pushed me multiple times and continued to put his hands on me. He said "trust me--this is not a bad thing" and insisted we come with him to go upstairs away from the man. We were escorted upstairs to the overcrowded, hot, musty third floor.
A man my sister was familiar with invited us into his section to sit down and have drinks when just a few minutes later, the wild drunken angry party promoter guy Ade´ begins walking around the area of where we were sitting. I stood up to walk toward the door to chat with some friends and then the angry party promoter guy comes over there as well and walks by me shaking his head and angrily mumbling (I couldn't hear him), so I feel like he's trying to intimidate me at this point so I go downstairs to let the security guard know and after the man pretty much does nothing, I ask to speak to the man in the checkered shirt so that I can tell him about the guy again.
He tells me the party promoter man, Ade´ is a known troublemaker, but the venue continues to allow him to come there and I truly am beyond confused and disgusted at this point because even after all of his carrying on, he still was allowed to be there. and knowing we also still had to leave and go home eventually, I was a little afraid as well of what the man possibly would do following all of this.
I have filed a police report regarding this. Due to knowing this place does nothing about and takes the side of angry drunken men pushing women at the bar, I will never visit this place again. It isn't safe--especially if the important VIP party promoter man decides to drunkenly pick on you. That man should not be allowed to represent your establishment in this way. I assumed this would be a quality and safe place to have a drink and dance with my friends, but I was very wrong. That man and his security guard friend were gross and out of line for not only what he did to me, but for how it was handled after. I have never been treated in this way by a supposed professional place of business and I will never visit this place again. I've reached out to everyone I felt I possibly could have regarding this matter and no one has responded to me at all. read more