Auburn coffee shop owner says ‘white supremacist’ yelled at customers

al.com link

The al.com article is literally just sharing a Facebook post, and hasn't spoken to the owner or the police, so I included the Auburn Plainsmen piece also.

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Sarah Barnett Gill, the owner of Mama Mocha's Coffee Emporium on Gay Street, posted on Facebook about the ordeal. “We had a white supremacist with a gun stand up on a chair in our Gay Street cafe tonight and yell nazi [sic] rhetoric at all of our customers- a lot of those being people of color. He repeatedly gave heil hitler [sic] salutes aggressively,” she posted.

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Auburn police responded to the scene, Gill said, and told employees that the man's gun was registered and he was "within his right to free speech."

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Auburn Plainsman link

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"As he was walking out, I told him not to come back, and he showed me his gun," Trammell said. "I have a Black Lives Matter pin on and being a black man, I wasn't really shook. I wasn't really scared. But it was a very charged situation."

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A number of people of color, including staff, were present at the shop when the man yelled the racist and white nationalist rhetoric. "They were rightly traumatized by that," Barnett-Gill said. "My staff ran out immediately and told him to get down and that we don't say things like that here. That's when they noticed he was wearing a gun."

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Notice the discrepancy?

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No one interviewed by The Plainsman was able to take video footage because the incident happened so fast, but staff are looking into whether they might have security footage.

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How would you not already know if you have security footage? Wouldn't the owner know if there are security cameras or not?

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"It's really disorienting to think about — in a place like Auburn, in my cafe, which has always been inclusive and loving and never aggressive — that a gun-wielding Nazi got up and started screaming at the people of color," Barnett-Gill said. "It doesn't even seem like it's real."

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We certainly agree on something about this. Maybe this really happened the way the owner (who was not there at the time) and the manager say it happened, but I find it hard to believe he was yelling racist slogans at patrons while throwing Nazi salutes and flashing a gun at people, but somehow didn't get any charges whatsoever. At the very least, that's disturbing the peace.