Retribution has been swift for "I'm calling ICE" lawyer Aaron Schlossberg

Retribution has come swiftly for the New York lawyer who threatened to call ICE on some restaurant workers speaking Spanish.

Aaron Schlossberg achieved instant internet infamy on Wednesday after a video went viral of him yelling at women speaking Spanish at a midtown Manhattan lunch spot and threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on them for doing so. And within 36 hours he was facing serious professional consequences and massive public vitriol: His private law practice got kicked out of its Madison Avenue office space, two elected officials in New York filed a complaint against him — which could lead to his disbarment — he got savaged on Twitter, and a bunch of people donated to have a mariachi band perform for him.

The GoFundMe campaign for the mariachi band raised over $1,000, twice as much as the organizers had hoped to raise. The number of progressive organizations based in New York launched a Facebook event for a Latin party outside of Schlossberg’s Upper West Side apartment. Nearly 4,000 people said they’d attend.

Since the restaurant-rant video went viral, several other videos have surfaced of Schlossberg behaving badly. He yelled at Jewish protesters, calling them “fake Jews” at a rally in New York in May of 2017. And he accosted a white guy on a New York sidewalk in 2016 for no apparent reason, calling him an “ugly fucking foreigner” and threatening to call the cops.

“His actions are just not consistent with our community and rules and regulations,” Hayim Grant, the president of Corporate Suites, Schlossberg’s firm’s now-former landlord, told the New York Post. “It’s totally contrary to everything we believe in as a company and personally.”

“I’ll throw my shoes at him. We’re all hungry for him,” a security worker at his old office building told the Post. “If it was up to me, I wouldn’t let him in. We all want to bury him one way or another.”

Meanwhile, New York congressman Adriano Espaillat and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. filed a complaint against Schlossberg to the New York State Unified Court System’s Departmental Disciplinary Committee. That complaint could lead to penalties that range from a slap on the wrist to removal from the state bar, a spokesman for the New York State Unified Court System, Lucian Chalfen, told the New York Times.

Schlossberg has had to run from reporters tracking him too. He was spotted in Manhattan by an NBC News reporter, despite his not-so-great efforts at disguising himself with a beanie and sunglasses. He scampered down the sidewalk, escaping an interview. Earlier, he hid under an umbrella to shield himself from reporters.

All in all, not a great day for Mr. Schlossberg.

Cover image: Aaron Schlossberg rants at a Fresh Kitchen manager in Manhattan, May 16, 2018. (from video shot by a customer)