Asian Beauty Store Manager FIRED After Video Showed Him Kicking & Choking A Black Woman

An Asian man who managed a Charlotte, North Carolina beauty supply store was fired after he was filmed kicking and choking a black woman.

As KSLA News 12 reported, a cell phone video of the incident showed Missha Beauty manager Sung Ho Lim questioning the unidentified woman after she was allegedly caught stealing false eyelashes.

The woman told Lim to check her bag, according to CBS North Carolina, before the pair started shoving each other.

After Lim accused the woman of hitting him, he kicked her, threw her to the ground, and put his arm around her neck.

Though Lim said he will eventually apologize to the woman, he filed a police report for strong-armed robbery and planned to provide police security footage that supposedly proves she stole the eyelashes.

"This is my fault,” Lim told CBS. "I have to take the whole video and give it to the police."

Protesters gathered outside the beauty store on Sunday afternoon—a day after the video was posted by the local NAACP chapter—to decry Lim's use of force and call for a boycott of Missha Beauty.

"When he was choking her, he was almost choking her to death," said Teresa Mosely, who said she'll no longer be a regular customer at the beauty store because of the incident. "She was gasping for breath, and he was continually choking her."

John C. Barnett, a civil rights activist at the protest, slammed Lim for acting "like the police."

"You cannot take police matters in your own hands," Barnett said. Whether the woman stole from him or not, Barnett added, "we know he cannot be keeping someone in a choke hold."

Though Lim told the crowd he was sorry, Corine Mack, president of the local chapter of the NAACP, wanted him to apologize to Charlotte's entire African-American community.

"We are the ones who go to his store on a regular basis, and allow his family to live a good quality of life," Mack said.