Minneapolis bar closes after performers and employees protest owner's donation to David Duke
A Minneapolis bar shut down after performers canceled, customers vowed to boycott it and employees were repulsed to learn the owner donated $500 to former KKK leader David Duke’s 2016 Senate campaign.
Caught between those who were outraged over the donation and white supremacists who thought they could claim the bar as their own were more than a dozen employees who became collateral damage in the fallout.
Former employees, who asked not to be identified, confirmed Friday that Club Jäger was closed and the 17 employees at the North Loop bar were out of jobs. Employees were incensed when they learned about the owner’s donation to Duke, and the decision to close the business was made by those who ran it, not the owner, they said.
Club Jäger’s owner, Julius DeRoma, couldn’t be reached for comment on Friday. The backlash erupted this week after City Pages published a story about DeRoma’s political donation to Duke’s failed bid for the U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana.
Soon after, DJ Jake Rudh announced on Facebook that he would no longer host Transmission, his long-standing weekly dance night, at Club Jäger, saying he didn’t want to be in a “venue where the owner supports the likes of David Duke and his messages of hate.”
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