"A table near us audibly started making pretty gross comments about the two of us like, 'White f----ts, spilling drinks,'" Snipes said.
"I don't let anyone talk to me like that. I went over there and asked, 'What did you say about us?'" he added.
Snipes said he's 140 pounds, never thrown a punch in his life and felt he posed no physical threat to anyone at the table, especially the two large men there — one of whom stood about 6 feet 4 inches, according to police.
"I may be a mouthy broad, but I wasn't going to take it to that level," Snipes said.
One of the men stood up and escalated the verbal confrontation, Snipes said.
"He turned it into a physical altercation very quickly," he added.
The man knocked Snipes to the ground and started kicking his face and spine, knocking loose one of his teeth, snapping the cartilage in his ear and bruising his head, he said.
He shouted, "Take that, f----t," according to Snipes.
Onlookers shouted "Stop! Stop! Stop!" according to a second video posted to YouTube by Isaam Sharef, who also took the Instagram video. He didn't respond to requests for comment.
"At some point, the guy stops kicking me in the face. He's won," Snipes said.