This week Brown and his partner Bill Maughlin, who are co-owners of Nancy by SNAC, a restaurant on North Ave. in the Station North Arts Community, were physically attacked and subsequently terrorized by individuals experiencing homelessness.
Apparently, Brown and Maughlin had an ongoing dispute with people who had erected an encampment on the steps of a building on the corner of North and Maryland Aves., just a few feet away from the front door of their restaurant.
Brown was allegedly punched in the face and Maughlin’s leg was cut during the scuffle.The front of their restaurant was defaced.
The irony that Brown and Maughlin were perhaps the victims of a hate crime does not escape me or anybody who knows the couple and has frequented Nancy by SNAC, because it is much more than a restaurant.
Sean Yoes is the AFRO’s Baltimore editor and author of Baltimore After Freddie Gray: Real Stories From One of America’s Great Imperiled Cities.
