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Behind the Aegis

(53,831 posts)
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 04:39 PM Jun 2020

Police opened fire on a gay bar because the owner was handing out water to protestors (NC)

Police opened fire on an LGBTQ bar in North Carolina after they received an anonymous tip that the bar was giving water bottles to protestors.

Tim Lemuel is the owner of the Ruby Deluxe in Raleigh. He said that on Saturday night, his business was vandalized with a white supremacist symbol and the bar’s glass doors and windows were broken.

So on Sunday evening he decided to stay at his business, in part to deter vandals. He also set up a first aid station for people who needed medical attention, washing tear gas and pepper spray out of people’s eyes and handing out water bottles and granola bars.

He said that he and some staff were working there for about seven hours before six police officers arrived and told them to move just after midnight.

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Police opened fire on a gay bar because the owner was handing out water to protestors (NC) (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jun 2020 OP
That's just not right. In_The_Wind Jun 2020 #1
This is the kind of thing that makes righty THRILLED to be alive in America today. Eliot Rosewater Jun 2020 #2
This pisses me off SO SO SO SO SO BAD!!!!! BComplex Jun 2020 #3
K&R Solly Mack Jun 2020 #4
There's no excuse for this. None. nt crickets Jun 2020 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
2. This is the kind of thing that makes righty THRILLED to be alive in America today.
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 04:44 PM
Jun 2020

They want journalists killed too.

BComplex

(7,982 posts)
3. This pisses me off SO SO SO SO SO BAD!!!!!
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 05:00 PM
Jun 2020

I live in the general area of Raleigh, and this is so totally unacceptable!!! We need to have protest marches just for this one incident.

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