'I just called you the N-word': Cape Cod bar owner accused of threatening man who accused him of drunk driving
June 06, 2023
A Cape Cod bar and restaurant owner was recorded on video making violent and racist threats against a Black man who reported him for drinking and driving.
Millyan Phillips told WCVB-TV that he called the police last week after he and some friends saw John Shea, who owns Trader Ed's on Hyannis Harbor, allegedly drive while intoxicated, and Shea later confronted him in an encounter captured on video.
"He basically came up and started harassing me, saying I didn't belong here and calling me a monkey and stuff," Phillips said. "Like: 'I'm going to shoot you, I'll get you shot with a shotgun, I'll shoot you in the back of the head.'"
Shea can be heard asking Phillips if he knows who he is and then making threats and using racial slurs.
"Do you f---ing know who I am?" Shea asks in the video. "Get the f--k out of my town, get the f--k out of my town! You use my name again, you'll end up in a grave. You use my name again, you'll end up in a grave."
Later in the video, Phillips ask Shea whether he just called him a racial slur, and he agreed that he had.
"I just called you the N-word," he said. "Because you act like one."
Shea told the TV station there were two sides to the story, but declined to give his side on the advice of his attorney.
Barnstable police confirmed the incident was under investigation as a possible hate crime.
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