'I like attorneys who aren't racist': Reporter buried in scorn for defending racist NYC lawyer bro

A New York City lawyer became an instant pariah this week after he threatened to call ICE on restaurant workers for speaking Spanish -- and a magazine reporter was hit with backlash for defending him on social media.

Aaron Schlossberg was identified as the ranting white man laughed out of a midtown Manhattan coffee shop in a viral video, and since then he's been chased down the street by reporters, barred from entering his own law office and threatened with disbarment -- although he's not a voluntary member of the New York Bar Association.

Journalist Julia Ioffe, a contributing writer for The Atlantic, expressed some discomfort with the mob mentality chasing Schlossberg out of the professional life he's built for himself.

But other Twitter users told Ioffe that the lawyer had gotten exactly what he deserved.

Ioffe tried to walk back her tweet by calling Schlossberg "a vicious racist who deserves to be pilloried," but the Soviet-born reporter said as a "refugee from a totalitarian country" she was unsettled about angry mobs.

That didn't seem to help.