Milo Yiannopoulos Shouted Out Of Murray Hill Bar

MURRAY HILL, NY — Controversial conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos was forced out of a Murray Hill bar on Sunday as its patrons chanted “Nazi scum get out,” according to a video of the incident.

The former Breitbart News editor is seen in a video posted to Twitter standing at the bar of the Churchill Tavern, located at 45 E. 28th St., while patrons surrounding him chant “Nazi scum get out” repeatedly.

The 30-second clip shows Yiannopoulos and a companion getting their belongings and leaving the bar as the crowd chants. The Twitter user who posted the video, who identified himself as "Tim," identified the group in the bar as members of the Democratic Socialists of America. The clip was reported by multiple news outlets on Sunday night and Monday morning.

"I was just shoved and screamed at by a big group in a pub in Manhattan and forced out of the place," Yiannopoulos wrote in an Instagram post after the incident. "They were screaming at the top of their lungs about 'Nazis' and 'KKK'. Initially I was going to stay put obviously but they blocked me from my table and my bag and yelled at me to leave and it was about to escalate into something ugly."

The video posted to Twitter does not show the full encounter, but in the 32-second clip none of the bars' patrons touch or shove Yiannopoulos or his companion.

Yiannopoulos did not identify the bar in his post because, he wrote, "the staff were really understanding and cool about it," but the video of the incident shows signage indicating that the bar was the Churchill. The English tavern was decorated with St. George's Day flags in the video. The English holiday is celebrated every April 23rd, and the Churchill Tavern invited patrons to celebrate the holiday over the weekend, according to its website.

"It’s now impossible for me to safely go out for lunch in most major cities in America because I supported Trump at the last election and don’t like feminism," Yiannopoulos in the Instagram post, which accompanied a photo of himself.

In a later post, Yiannopoulos called his hecklers "feral animals," among other insults.

Yiannopoulos has gained a reputation as a alt-right provocateur. He has called feminism a “cancer” and was kicked off of Twitter in 2016 after inciting trolls to attack the “Ghostbusters” star Leslie Jones on the social media platform. He resigned from Breitbart and lost a reported $250,000 book contract last year after a clip of him endorsing sex between "younger boys" and men circulated online.

Yiannopoulos said in the clip that the age of consent was "not this black and white thing" and that relationships "between younger boys and older men … can be hugely positive experiences".

He later apologized for his comments.

Image credit: Michael Masters/Getty Images. Image caption: Milo Yiannopoulos speaks during an event hosted by senator David Leyonhjelm at Parliament House on December 5, 2017 in Canberra, Australia. Yiannopoulos is touring Australia with his Troll Academy show.