Backlash for Lexington cafe after owner went to DC protest. How do others handle politics?
On Jan. 6, pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, damaging the building and clashing with local police, resulting in the death of four rioters and one officer.
Among those demonstrating was the co-owner of Momma Rabbit’s Nibbles and Sips, a Lexington cafe.
In social media posts and a subsequent interview with WIS-TV, Sarah Grace Allen said she did not participate in the trespassing and violence that followed the initial protest.
“I would 100 percent do it again,” she told WIS-TV. “There was nothing there that I witnessed, or that I was a part of, that I’m ashamed of at all. I certainly don’t condone any of the vandalism that we heard about after the fact. At all.”
The result of her attendance at the demonstration that became a riot was a slew of negative online reviews on various websites and biting comments left on her personal social media pages and those of her restaurant. A Facebook group named No More Momma Rabbits appeared, and has since accrued more than 700 members.
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