Protest erupts at a Tahoe ice cream shop after owner makes violent comments about Black Lives Matter
Protest erupts at a Tahoe ice cream shop after owner makes violent comments about Black Lives Matter
According to a story by This Is Reno, the owner, Beth Moxley, wrote comments in response to a Facebook post of a Black Lives Matter Protest showing demonstrators surrounding vehicles on a freeway, where she wrote “Who let the ANIMALS out of their cages???” and “Oh look……MOVING TARGET PRACTICE.”
Lily Baran, a Black activist in Reno, commented in response asking “Also you just threatened to shoot me?” to which Moxley responded, “WE are law abiding citizens. Apparently you have no respect for the law,” and as well as, “Kill or be killed. That’s what the world has come to.”
Last week’s protest was organized by Baran’s friends after she protested outside the shop alone a few days earlier, which resulted in the local police being called on her.
“Calling the police on a Black person who was unarmed and has not harmed you is unacceptable and should be illegal. It directly threatens my life,” Baran told This Is Reno. “Not to mention it’s terrifying, you know, fiddling with their guns, not wearing a mask while speaking with me as well, directly harmful. I feel traumatized for sure from the situation.”
After eight hours of protesting, Moxley came outside, approached the protesters, and asked “What do I do?”
Baran then asked her to make a donation to Color of Change, a racial justice organization, and explained to her how calling the police on unarmed Black people is dangerous, which she did by referencing the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Moxley apologized and said, “Black Lives Matter.”
Link to tweet
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https://medium.com/the-reno-worker/racist-ice-cream-tastes-like-hate-a549d796a29b
In the duration of the protest, multiple phone calls were made by organizers to Beth in an attempt to have her come to the protest to have a civil conversation regarding her beliefs and posts on Facebook.
Beth told the organizers that she intended to arrive, but did not do so.
Following the period of time in which protestors waited for Beth to arrive, protestors chose to move to a die-in on the driveway of Sweet Tahoe time.
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