Mom says viral video shows her being booted from Georgia restaurant for breastfeeding her baby

A Florida mother says a man she believed to be the owner of a popular riverside restaurant in Georgia yelled at her and ordered her to leave after she breastfed her infant — an encounter she says she recorded on her cellphone that shows a man shouting, “Get on out of here!”The incident happened at Toccoa Riverside Restaurant in Blue Ridge, according to Aris Kopiec, and has since spread widely online, reigniting scrutiny of the business’ treatment of young families.Kopiec told FOX Business she was dining with her husband, three young daughters — ages 4, 2 and 4 months — and family friends when her baby began to cry.She said she latched her infant, covered up immediately, and ensured she was fully concealed from the view of anyone except her own table.“The only people who could see me were at my table,” she said.“I covered myself immediately.”Kopiec said she pulled her shirt back down and was preparing to take her older children outside when she bumped into either a chair or another guest in the crowded enclosed porch area.

That, she says, is when the restaurant’s owner stepped toward her.“He looked at me and said, ‘You can’t do that here,’” Kopiec recalled.“I wasn’t even breastfeeding at that point.

I was holding my baby in one arm and helping my kids with the other.He wouldn’t let me get any words out.

He kept saying, ‘I have to protect my restaurant.You need to go to a corner.’”Kopiec said she and her friend took the older children outside to wait while their spouses paid inside.

Kopiec said staff apologized to the men in the group, but not to her.She said when she returned to gather her belongings, the confrontation escalated.She said she calmly informed the man she claims is the owner that Georgia law explicitly protects breastfeeding in public places.“I just told him, if he wanted to protect his restaurant, he should follow the law,” she said.

“That’s when he lost his mind.”Kopiec said the man refuse...