Update 8/24:

A member of a funeral party for President Trump’s late brother allegedly punched an employee at a D.C. restaurant Friday night.

NBC News White House correspondent Geoff Bennett tweeted that he confirmed the assault with an employee at the downtown restaurant, Fig & Olive.

“Somebody blindsided one of my servers,” Bennett quotes an employee as saying. “Clocked him right in the nose.”

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1297012092139184128

DCist spoke with a representative of Fig & Olive who confirmed that an employee was punched in the nose last night. Another spokesperson for Fig & Olive also confirmed that an assault on an employee occurred. Both representatives said the guest in question had attended a funeral.

“We cannot confirm or deny they were a guest of that particular funeral,” a spokesperson wrote in an email to DCist, “but we can confirm their group had attended a funeral procession that day.”

A private funeral service for Robert Trump, the president’s 71-year-old brother, took place Friday at the White House. The Hill tweeted a video of the casket being carried out of the White House at 6:30 p.m. Friday.

A Fig & Olive representative tells DCist that a group called on Friday to make a reservation for 20 people. He says that he was told by the group they had come from a funeral.

Due to indoor dining restrictions during the pandemic, the representative says the restaurant could only seat six people at a table. He says the group was offered four-person tables spaced out through the restaurant, but was made aware that those accommodations may not be guaranteed when they arrive.

He says a small group showed up for the reservation somewhere between 8:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. As the group grew to 14 guests, he says he sat the guests at 3 separate tables. But when a group of what he estimates could have been 12 more guests showed up, he says he informed them that they could not be seated.

“At that point I said ‘Unfortunately we’re full, I can’t get anybody else in, I’m so sorry,’” the representative says. “Then it just sort of escalated for no reason. Nobody likes to hear no, and it’s just frustrating times.”

The representative confirmed that an employee was subsequently assaulted and punched in the nose. But he did not provide more details about how the assault occurred or what prompted it, beyond the restaurant’s inability to accommodate the whole party.

A D.C. police report of the incident depicts the offense as being an “assault with significant bodily injury.” It says that a 20-person party entered the restaurant and “was unable to be seated due to COVID-19 restrictions.” Then, someone in the group became irate and struck the victim in the nose “with a closed fist.” No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson tells DCist.

“Since reopening from the temporary dine-in closures due to Covid-19 restrictions, our Fig & Olive DC team has worked incredibly hard to rebuild and we have faced many challenges during the reopening period,” a statement from the restaurant’s spokesperson reads. “It is incredibly unfair our team had to deal with what occurred last night, and we will make sure the necessary steps are taken to address this.”

Matt Blitz contributed reporting. This story has been updated with information from the police report.