The man seen in a viral video hurling racial slurs at an Asian American family at a California restaurant and saying “Trump’s going to f-ck you,” has been identified as Michael Lofthouse, a tech CEO of a cloud computing company.
Lofthouse, the CEO of Solid8, a cloud computing firm based in San Francisco, told ABC affiliate KGO-TV in a statement that his actions were “appalling” and claimed that he just “lost control.” The video of the Friday incident went viral on Tuesday and showed Lofthouse giving the family the middle finger and saying, “F**k you Asians”, “Go back to whatever f**king Asian country you’re from”, and “You don’t belong here.” “This was clearly a moment where I lost control and made incredibly hurtful and divisive