<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9407584" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="laface-skincare">LaFace Skincare</keyword> CEO Lisa Alexander was filmed threatening to call the <keyword id="11098" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="police">police</keyword> on a <keyword id="12161" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="San-Francisco">San Francisco</keyword> homeowner writing "<keyword id="2771111" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="black-lives-matter">Black Lives Matter</keyword>" on his property.</li><li>The CEO was accused of being racist, and a cosmetics distributor cut ties with her.</li><li>Alexander has apologized.</li><li>Her husband was also fired by his employer, the wealth-management firm Raymond James. </li></ul>The CEO of a cosmetics company issued an apology Sunday after a video was widely shared online showing her and her husband confronting a man and threatening to call police because he stenciled "Black Lives Matter" in chalk on his San Francisco property.The video, which has been retweeted 155,000 times, sparked accusations of racism and led a cosmetics distributor to cut ties with Lisa Alexander, the founder and CEO of LaFace Skincare."There are not enough words to describe how truly sorry I am for being disrespectful to him last Tuesday when I made the decision to question him about what he was doing in front of his home," Alexander said in a statement. "I should have minded my own business."The video, which first appeared Tuesday on the Facebook page of James Juanillo, shows a couple asking him whether he lives in the house before saying that they know he doesn't live there and is therefore breaking the law.Juanillo doesn't answer the couple but invites them to call the police. The couple then walk away, with Alexander responding: "Yes, we will do so."The video doesn't show what happened next. Juanillo described the encounter on Twitter: "A white couple call the police on me, a person of color, for stenciling a #BLM chalk message on my own front retaining wall."He added that Alexander "lies and says she knows that I don't live in my own house, because she knows the person who lives here."Juanillo, who is Filipino, told <a href="https://abc7news.com/society/woman-who-called-police-on-sf-man-stenciling-black-lives-matter-on-his-property-apologizes-/6247494/">KGO-TV</a> he believed the couple accused him of defacing private property because they didn't think he belonged in the wealthy Pacific Heights neighborhood.He said a police officer pulled up several minutes after the encounter and drove away after recognizing Juanillo as a longtime resident.The social-media furor over the video led Birchbox, which distributes beauty products via a subscription service, to announce Saturday that it cut ties with LaFace Skincare over Alexander's "racist actions." Her husband was also fired from the investment-management firm Raymond James, the company said. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Raymond James (@RaymondJames) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1272479037642899457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2020</a></blockquote>"When I watch the video I am shocked and sad that I behaved the way I did," Alexander's statement said.She said she was committed to learning from the experience and wanted to apologize to Juanillo in person.Juanillo said Sunday he would be open to talking to Alexander. He said in the past several days, neighbors have left flowers and notes expressing support, with many adding chalk art to the retaining wall and sidewalk."For me this experience has left me feeling vindicated and validated. I imagine that she regrets those couple of minutes," he said. "Do I believe that her life should be destroyed over this? No. I just hope that she realizes that what she did was racist and she can improve from this incident."___AP photographer Jeff Chiu contributed to this report.

CEO of cosmetics company apologizes after a video showed her threatening to the call the police on a neighbor writing 'Black Lives Matter' in chalk on his property

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The owner of a Lamborghini yacht threatened a private dock employee, per CBS8.</li><li>The employee said Ajay Thakore mooned and threw cash at him after being told he couldn't use the dock.</li></ul>The owner of a $3.4 million <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lamborghini-63-tecnomar-yacht-looks-like-a-car-2020-6">Lamborghini</a> yacht threatened a private dock employee after being told he couldn't be there, the San Diego-based broadcaster <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/confrontation-at-san-diego-marina-involving-businessman-prompts-visit-from-harbor-police/509-d674fc6d-2c5f-48d4-a9d7-6642f4caada0">CBS8</a> reported on March 11.Joseph Holt, a 21-year-old employee at Marriot Marina in San Diego, told CBS8 that he spotted the yacht sailing into the private dock. The owner, whom CBS8 identified as Ajay Thakore, tried to pick another person up at the dock, Holt said. "I told him respectfully that he couldn't be there, and I honestly was hoping to have a conversation with him about his cool boat," Holt told CBS8.In a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hMmmH6pYZvg">YouTube video</a> posted by @SM-wc9eq on March 10, a dark blue <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lamborghini-63-tecnomar-yacht-looks-like-a-car-2020-6">Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63</a> is seen sailing out of a dock. A man in a gray T-shirt, a pair of jeans, and a cap was shown standing on the yacht. The man appeared to be Thakore, per CBS8.Thakore was shown shouting at Holt. "I will kill you, you know I will kill you!" he can be heard saying multiple times in the videoThakore was later shown pounding his fist on his palm and pointing his thumb down before telling Holt: "To your face!" Holt was shown responding by pointing his middle finger at Thakore.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hMmmH6pYZvg?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" title="San Diego Lamborghini Yacht Owner loses it at Marriott Marquis Marina - 03/10/2024"></iframe>"I really was trying to restrain myself from getting fired from my job or stepping out of line. The only thing I did was give him the bird," Holt told CBS8.Holt said Thakore then took $100 bills from his wallet and threw them at him. He added that Thakore mooned him. This exchange was not shown in the video."He was saying I'm nobody, I'm nothing, I work a silly job. He said that he knows people, he has connections, he can change my life and ruin it," Holt said. Holt did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.The San Diego Harbor Police arrived at the marina 10 minutes after Thakore's yacht exited the dock, per CBS8. The Harbor Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.According to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay-thakore-403296282/">Thakore's LinkedIn page</a>, he's the CEO of Doctor Multimedia. The company's website shows that it's a <a target="_blank" href="https://doctormultimedia.com/">healthcare marketing firm</a> based in San Diego. Thakore appears to go by the name Ace Rogers on Instagram and TikTok, where he's noted as being a professional gambler. Thakore, through his public relations team, told CBS8 in a statement that his altercation with Holt was "regrettable." "What started as a minor misunderstanding escalated into an argument, and I apologize for my actions and to those who witnessed the unfortunate exchange," the statement said. Thakore did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.Thakore isn't the only CEO who's been called out for threatening another person. In November 2021, an Activision spokesperson told BI that its ex-CEO <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/activision-ceo-bobby-kotick-reportedly-threatened-former-assistant-killed-2021-11">Bobby Kotick</a> had previously apologized for telling his assistant he would have her killed. The spokesperson added that Kotick's threat was "obviously hyperbolic and inappropriate" and that "he deeply regrets the exaggeration and tone."In June 2020, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cosmetics-ceo-lisa-alexander-apologizes-police-homeowner-black-lives-matter-2020-6">Lisa Alexander,</a> the CEO of LaFace Skincare, a cosmetics company, apologized in a statement to the media after she had threatened to call the police on her neighbor for writing "Black Lives Matter" on his property. Alexander said in the apology that she was "disrespectful" and "should have minded my own business."

The owner of a $3.4 million Lamborghini yacht screamed 'I will kill you' and threw $100 bills into the water when told he couldn't use a private dock      

<ul class="summary-list"><li>James Juanillo said a white couple called the police on him for stenciling "<keyword id="2771111" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="black-lives-matter">Black Lives Matter</keyword>" in chalk onto his own property.</li><li>Juanillo posted a now-viral video of his interaction with the couple to Twitter, where it had over 16 million views at the time of writing on Monday.</li><li>Birchbox identified the woman in the video as Lisa Alexander, the owner of LaFace, a skin-care company that has been featured in Birchbox products, and the company released a statement saying it cut ties with LaFace as a result of the incident.</li><li>The financial services firm Raymond James identified the man in the video as Robert Larkin, and it announced on Monday that Larkin had been let go as a result of the incident.</li><li>Alexander issued an apology to Juanillo on Sunday, saying she was "taking a hard look at the meaning behind white privilege" and was "committed to growing from the experience."</li></ul>A white couple was caught on tape accusing a man of color of vandalizing his own property and lying about knowing the owner of the building, a scene described by James Juanillo on Twitter.Juanillo is a San Francisco resident and business owner, and he rents a home in the city.He was stenciling "Black Lives Matter" in chalk outside his home when the couple, who identified themselves as Lisa and Robert, stopped him on Friday.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Jaimetoons (@jaimetoons) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1271300265170186240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2020</a></blockquote>"Are you defacing private property?" Robert asked him at the beginning of the video. "You're free to express your opinions. Just not on people's property.""So if I did live here and it was my property, this would be absolutely fine?" Juanillo asked the couple. "And you don't know if I live here or if this is my property.""We actually do know," Lisa responded, claiming to know the homeowner. Her statement turned out to be false, as Juanillo wrote in his tweet. Brad Gilbertson, one of the owners of the building, <a href="https://abc7news.com/6246433/">told ABC 7 News</a> that he didn't know the couple. In addition, Juanillo wrote in <a href="https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1272119396807270400">a tweet</a> that he had lived in his home for 18 years.It's also worth noting that Juanillo was writing with chalk, so the stenciling was not permanent.<div type="image" title="chalk black lives matter incident" height="1768" width="2357" msid="76374784" hostid="261"></div>At the end of the video, Juanillo suggested that Robert and Lisa should call the police if they felt unsafe because of him. They did, and the police drove by Juanillo's house shortly after the interaction, as he told ABC 7 <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">News</keyword>."The police came and recognized me immediately as a resident of the house and left without getting out of their patrol car," Juanillo said. "I didn't even show them my ID.""What she did is polite <keyword id="44060" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Racism">racism</keyword>," Juanillo also told ABC 7 News. "It's respectable racism. 'Respectfully, sir I don't think you belong here.'"Juanillo's video went viral after he posted it, having over 16 million views at the time of writing on Monday. Juanillo did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on the interaction.Lisa and Robert have not been independently identified, but Birchbox seemed to confirm that the woman in the video was Lisa Alexander, the owner of the skincare company LaFace. In a tweet, the company announced that it was cutting ties with LaFace because of the incident.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Birchbox (@birchbox) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1271846464268972032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2020</a></blockquote>"Thank you to the Birchbox community for speaking up and speaking out, and bringing the racist actions of Lisa Alexander to our attention," the statement said.Likewise, Raymond James, a financial services firm appeared to confirm that Lisa's husband is Robert Larkin. He worked for the company until Monday. In a tweet, the company announced he had been let go because of his actions to Juanillo.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Raymond James (@RaymondJames) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1272479037642899457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2020</a></blockquote>"An inclusive workplace is fundamental to our culture, one in which people are free to bring their whole selves to their careers, and we expect our associates to conduct themselves appropriately inside and outside the workplace," the statement read, adding that Robert had been let go after an internal investigation. Lisa Alexander issued an apology to Juanillo on Sunday, as reported by CBS San Francisco's Kenny Choi on Twitter.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Kenny Choi (@KennyKPIX) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1272249855201558528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2020</a></blockquote>"I want to apologize directly to Mr. Juanillo," the statement said. "There are not enough words to describe how truly sorry I am for being disrespectful to him last Tuesday when I made the decision to question him about what he was doing in front of his home. I should have minded my own business."The statement went on to say Alexander was shocked by her own behavior when she saw the video. "I did not realize at the time that my actions were racist and have learned a painful lesson. I am taking a hard look at the meaning behind white privilege and am committed to growing from the experience."She also said she hoped to get coffee with Juanillo at some point soon to have a "dialogue" in person about the experience.LaFace's website is unavailable, and all of its social-media accounts have been deactivated. Alexander's LinkedIn page and social-media accounts are also no longer active. LaFace and Larkin did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.You can read Lisa Alexander's full statement <a href="https://twitter.com/KennyKPIX/status/1272249855201558528/photo/1">here</a>.UPDATE: June 15, 2020: This article was originally published on June 14 and has been updated to reflect a statement issued by Raymond James, the financial services company where Robert Larkin was previously employed. Larkin, who appears in Juanillo's video, has been identified as Lisa Alexander's husband.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/virtue-signaling-social-media-george-floyd-protests-racism-2020-6">Politicians and influencers have been accused of 'virtue signaling' during police brutality protests, but the callouts could do more harm than good</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/police-central-park-karen-video-dog-leash-2020-5">A woman in a video appears to call the police claiming there's an 'African American man threatening my life' — he apparently had asked her to put her dog on a leash</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/christopher-cantwell-crying-nazi-charges-violent-threat-2020-1"> 'Crying Nazi' Christopher Cantwell has been arrested after he allegedly made a violent threat online</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/what-to-watch-to-learn-about-racism-2020-6">10 things to watch to educate yourself about systemic racism</a></li></ul>

A white couple called the police on a man for stenciling 'Black Lives Matter' in chalk on his own property

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Robert Larkins, the man seen with Lisa Alexander and part of the white couple who called the police on someone stenciling "<keyword id="2771111" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="black-lives-matter">Black Lives Matter</keyword>" outside of his home, has been fired from his job at financial services firm Raymond James.</li><li>The company Raymond James <a href="https://twitter.com/RaymondJames/status/1272479037642899457?s=20">published a statement on Twitter</a> on Monday June 15 stating that it had conducted an investigation into a video "alleging <keyword id="44060" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Racism">racism</keyword> by one of our associates," and that the associate was no longer employed at the firm.</li><li>KPIX 5 <a href="https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/raymond-james-lisa-alexander-videotaped-pacific-heights-black-lives-matter-sign-confrontation/">confirmed on Monday</a> that Robert Larkins was no longer employed at Raymond James.</li><li>Both Lisa Alexander and Robert Larkins have issued apologies to San Francisco resident James Juanillo following the incident, which spread across Twitter in a viral video filmed by the man.</li></ul>The man walking with Lisa Alexander, who <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cosmetics-ceo-lisa-alexander-apologizes-police-homeowner-black-lives-matter-2020-6">recently apologized</a> for calling the police on James Juanillo after confronting him for stenciling "Black Lives Matter" at his own home, has been fired from his job at financial services firm Raymond James.The man, who <a href="https://abc7news.com/lisa-alexander-san-francisco-james-juanillo-black-lives-matter/6247494/">ABC 7 News reported was Robert Larkins</a>, accused San Francisco resident James Juanillo, who self-identified as a person of color in <a href="https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1271300265170186240?s=20">his original tweet</a>, of vandalizing his own home. In the video, Lisa Alexander claimed to know the owner of the building, which turned out to be a false claim according to <a href="https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1272119396807270400?s=20">Juanillo</a>, and threatened to call the police. Juanillo recorded the incident and <a href="https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1271300265170186240?s=20">posted it to social media</a>, later <a href="https://abc7news.com/lisa-alexander-san-francisco-james-juanillo-black-lives-matter/6247494/">telling ABC 7 News</a> that the police drove by his house, recognized him as a resident, and left.In the video, Larkins can be seen standing behind his wife, recording the incident on his phone and asking Juanillo if he's "defacing private property." He continued to state, "you're free to express your opinions, but not on private property."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Jaimetoons (@jaimetoons) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1271300265170186240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2020</a></blockquote>On Monday, June 15, Raymond James released a statement on Twitter announcing that Larkins had been fired, <a href="https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/raymond-james-lisa-alexander-videotaped-pacific-heights-black-lives-matter-sign-confrontation/">confirming to KPIX 5</a> that Robert Larkins was no longer an employee.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Raymond James (@RaymondJames) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1272479037642899457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2020</a></blockquote>"Raymond James has zero tolerance for racism or discrimination of any kind. An inclusive workplace is fundamental to our <keyword id="24504" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="culture">culture</keyword>, on in which people are free to bring their whole selves to their careers, and we expect our associates to conduct themselves appropriately inside and outside of the workplace," the statement reads."After an investigation into the circumstances of a video alleging racism by one of our associates, we have concluded that the actions of he and his partner were inconsistent with our values, and the associate is no longer employed with Raymond James," it says.Lisa Alexander, who is the CEO of cosmetics company LaFace Skincare, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cosmetics-ceo-lisa-alexander-apologizes-police-homeowner-black-lives-matter-2020-6">apologized for her actions</a>, and Birchbox announced on Twitter that it was <a href="https://twitter.com/birchbox/status/1271846464268972032?s=20">cutting ties with LaFace</a>. Per <a href="https://abc7news.com/lisa-alexander-san-francisco-james-juanillo-black-lives-matter/6247494/">ABC 7 News</a>, Larkins also apologized, saying, "I was wrong to question Mr. Juanillo, and I was wrong to call the neighborhood police watch."<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/white-couple-called-police-man-of-color-writing-his-property-2020-6">A white couple called the police on a man for stenciling 'Black Lives Matter' in chalk on his own property</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cosmetics-ceo-lisa-alexander-apologizes-police-homeowner-black-lives-matter-2020-6">CEO of cosmetics company apologizes after a video showed her threaten to call the police on a neighbor writing 'Black Lives Matter' in chalk on his property</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/karen-meme-origin-the-history-of-calling-women-karen-white-2020-5">How the name Karen became a stan-in for problematic white women and a hugely popular meme</a></li></ul>

Man with viral 'Karen' who confronted someone stenciling 'Black Lives Matter' near his own home has been fired from his job at a financial services firm

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CEO of cosmetics company apologizes after a video showed her threatening to the call the police on a neighbor writing 'Black Lives Matter' in chalk on his property

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Man with viral 'Karen' who confronted someone stenciling 'Black Lives Matter' near his own home has been fired from his job at a financial services firm

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