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New surveillance video shows Cleveland bar brawl
CLEVELAND - It started with punches thrown this weekend, at a popular downtown bar.
Now the Barley House is fighting back against 2 internet bloggers and their astronomical number of followers.
The popular YouTubers visiting Cleveland say they got everything on video. But Barley House owners and managers say surveillance video from inside the bar tells a different story.
Pushed to the limit with threats to their lives, now it’s gloves off.
A lawsuit is on the way as well as a full-blown produced video they say will set the record straight.
It started when YouTube star Alissa Violet posted a video claiming she and her boyfriend, social media star Ricky "FaZe" Banks, were beaten up by staff and patrons at Barley House on Saturday.
Managing Partner Corey May showed Channel 3 News surveillance video that shows the bloggers picked the wrong bar to bully.
May points out the part of video where Banks is clearly not happy that a security guard asked him to get out of a restricted area.
"You will see him kind of wind up like he's ready to fight, then a little later here he is walking on his own, security just behind him encouraging him to get out of there," says May.
Outside is another shot of a confrontation with another patron, not a Barley employee.
In this part of the surveillance video, it's Alissa's fight.
"Alissa gets right in her face. The girl whacks her. They swing at each other. And you can clearly see Ricky whip a glass at somebody," says May.
“And he doesn't even help his girlfriend. All he does is stand back and let his girlfriend get into a huge confrontation, more for them to videotape," says May.
The footage May is narrating would be news to Violet’s and Banks’ 7 million YouTube subscribers and nearly 10 million followers on Instagram.
An army of them unleashed a blitz that left Barley House with a crashed website, a Yelp page flooded with false complaints, and a Twitter page that had to be locked to stop death threats.
