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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 bars 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 peoples 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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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)They want journalists killed too.
BComplex
(7,982 posts)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.