The Red Hen Restaurant In Lexington, Virginia Was Forced To Close After Protests And Threats

[ehrnst]

Editded to add: Closed for the day, not permanently.

The Red Hen had planned to open at 5:00 p.m. as scheduled, however after both protesters and supporters of the business began showing up hours earlier in the afternoon, the restaurant remained dark throughout the evening. Initially, the Washington Post reports that it was just two men holding Trump banners and a confederate flag, but eventually the crowd grew so thick that police were forced to actually close off the street.

One gentleman of clearly extraordinary intelligence even showed up with a bucket of chicken manure, and was promptly arrested after dumping it on the front of the restaurant — as you can see in the local news report, below.

https://uproxx.com/viral/red-hen-forced-to-close-protests-threats/

[RKP5637]

1. A portrait of Trump supporters. n/t

[Garrett78]

2. Uncivil behavior toward a business that politely asked a liar and bigot to leave.

But the media and even some Democrats are obsessed with Democratic incivility.

[workinclasszero]

3. But the MSM insists that we treat these chickenshit throwers with dignity and respect!

[ProfessorGAC]

4. To The Keep It Civil Crowd

Guy bring chicken manure and dumps it on a restaurant, and you think civility is the correct answer?

[Igel]

12. Wasn't a dead, partially burned dog

left on the doorstep of some official?

Was it an official with ICE or the Border Patrol? I forget.

That wasn't civil. On the other hand, that one presumably pro-immigrant act of extreme non-civility doesn't say a whole lot about the millions of other people who are pro-immigrant or at the very least anti-child-abuse. I'm sure that at least some of them don't carry around dead, burned dogs, seeking out doorsteps to leave them on. That would be a health hazard, if nothing else.

They're as monolithic as we are, no matter how you switch up "they" and "we".

I'm sure there was somebody on the other side who said, "Guy brings a dead dog and drops it on a family's doorstep, and you think civility is the correct answer?" and who was, to my thinking, an idiot.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. Let's not forget it was The President's Press Secretary who made this public.

And I’m not familiar with the incident you are talking about but just because it is regarding the border patrol that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily pro immigrant. Go on YouTube and see all the right wing wackos freaking out about border checks interior to the United States. Which, ironically, is due to their whining about undocumented immigrants.

[Demsrule86]

20. Next time they will spit on her food or worse...wouldn't eat out if I were her.

She earned it...enjoy Sarah...you will soon learn notoriety and fame are two different things

[kimbutgar]

25. Or smeared a booger

Now instead of asking her to leave I think there will be some interesting things in her foods from now on.

[Demsrule86]

29. I am now about to puke...thanks

[kimbutgar]

30. Never seen that movie about the restaurant workers?

Where they put all kinds of horrible things on food? I think it was called Good burger.

I will always be nice to restaurant servers after seeing that movie and hearing stories in college from friends who worked in restaurants.

[ProudLib72]

41. I found a vid of the chef who will prepare Sarah's next meal

[ProfessorGAC]

42. Ridiculous, False Comparison

Nice piece of "both side-ism" you got going there.

Ridiculous.

[mythology]

28. And yet somehow John Lewis remained civil after getting his skull fractured

[Hekate]

36. He was engaged in civil disobedience (so-called to distinguish it from criminal disobedience)...

...and passive resistance.

The entire movement was not about saying "Howdy do, folks, thanks for breaking my skull and firehosing my friends into the street."

It was about expressing your right to live in civil society, go to school, ride a bus, and be served coffee at a public counter -- standing, sitting, walking where racists do not want you to be, and passively letting them hurt you and arrest you in front of cameras for the whole world to see.

This is street theater where people get hurt and even die. It does not work without mass media present to inform the world of the appalling injustice of the larger society.

Mahatma Ghandi developed it and used it for this exact reason, and ultimately the British couldn't take it any more and let India go. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. studied Ghandi and adapted the method for use in this country -- and the rest of the country was appalled. I was a little kid when the images of snarling police dogs and faces twisted with hate came into our living room via TIME, LIFE, and a b/w tv.

Civil disobedience is not the same as civilly passing the crumpets to a racist in your home. By the same token, you get to decide what sort of behavior you are willing to speak out against wherever you are. Publicly Shaming a member of this nakedly fascist regime seems like an idea whose time has come -- just be prepared to take the consequences.

NB: The issue of passively taking the beatings got to be old for some in the movement after several years. See: Malcolm X, Huey Newton, et al.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. This is so sad.

More victims of the Trump reign of error.

[Chickensoup]

6. Dems. weak leadership has to go

before it is too late. On top of the list
in my opinion is good old Nancy. Saving American is far more important than
than saving Nancy. She did a good job
in the past. However a new strong
leadership is needed with a different
kind of talent to deal with what we are
facing today.

[LanternWaste]

11. Your unsupported allegation is irrelevant to this story. nt

[RhodeIslandOne]

13. What does any of this have to do with the story?

Is Nancy moonlighting as a hostess?

[GulfCoast66]

19. Nicely done.

Not everyone has the ability to throw out a total diversion and a baseless attack against democrats both at the same time.

You are obviously well practiced at both.

[ehrnst]

26. Your posts look like and sound like they were run through Google translate.

Is English your first language?

And you don't seem to reply to any responses to your posts.

How interesting.

[Scurrilous]

39. What a load of nonsense.

[Chickensoup]

7. Dems. weak leadership has to go

before it is too late. On top of the list
in my opinion is good old Nancy. Saving American is far more important than
than saving Nancy. She did a good job
in the past. However a new strong
leadership is needed with a different
kind of talent to deal with what we are
facing today.

[ehrnst]

23. Why are you spamming this thread with this copy paste? (nt)

[George II]

34. Reading that post suddenly gave me the urge to have a cheese sandwich.

[George II]

33. Didn't you say exactly the same thing in Post #6?

[ProfessorPlum]

40. this message was irrelevant the first time

[Tipperary]

8. That was two days ago. Have they opened since?

[Solly Mack]

9. Think about it - there is something completely linear about Trump followers flinging shit.

Trump flings verbal shit. His followers fling actual shit. A progression along the same line.

Trump and his followers spread shit everywhere they go.

Full of shit, all of them.

They are nothing but shit.

That was me being civil, in case there was any doubt.

[gratuitous]

14. It all started with Sarah's tweet

Nobody anywhere would have known a thing about this, except Sarah had to send out her passive-aggressive tweet, vindicating herself and trashing the restaurant. Oh, and using her official government account to broadcast her shining virtue, knowing that the flying monkey brigade would be mobilized and the Red Hen would get paid back for the insult to her august personage.

Sure enough, her boss weighed in on twitter, using the account he uses for official government business, transferring the abysmal health code record of his own restaurants to Red Hen. No further impetus was needed, and the flying monkey swung into action, targeting not only the Red Hen in Alexandria (since Sarah helpfully identified them in the original butthurt tweet), but restaurants that had the name Red Hen in other states and even one in Canada.

As swift as Sanders and Trump were to jump on Red Hen, we haven't heard a peep from either of them scolding their flying monkeys for their bad behavior. Similarly, the usual gaggle of pitty-pats and schoolmarms have been silent on this as well. Apparently picketing throwing chicken shit at a restaurant is not considered "uncivil" by any of these people.

Sanders and Trump both made their tweets knowing full well what would follow. The message to the American people couldn't be clearer: Don't dissent. Don't oppose the administration. The administration will pay you back and more for any disrespect you show. The media will be silent at best, and will pile on for any reason at all. And you'd better change that look of disgust on your face for one of fawning and obsequious admiration right now, mister!

[Solly Mack]

15. I agree. They both knew what the results would be and they both wanted those results.

[virgogal]

32. No,it started when they refused to serve her.

If they just served her and her family they would have been gone in two hours and that would be that.

[gratuitous]

35. People are refused service all the time

But this time it became a national sensation. That happened for one reason, and one reason only.

[RoBear]

10. So he'd dumped a bucket of "trump" on the front of the restaurant?

I tell my friends that after a good ole country "trump" it's important to thoroughly wipe your "donald"

Silly and way too easy, but that's honestly how I feel.

[Initech]

17. RIP "civility". Beginning of civilization - 6/23/18. You wil be missed.

[smirkymonkey]

18. So is this what we should do from now on to every business that refuses to serve gay people or

refuses to fill a woman's birth-control prescription? Be careful Trumpers, this doesn't only work one way you know!

[Oneironaut]

21. Democrats need to be more civil.

That’s right. Be civil.

[vercetti2021]

22. But Civility!

Blow me on that civility crap. Time for that is done, time to be just downright assholes now.

[Honeycombe8]

24. I wish I lived there. I'd go eat there & offer support.

I guess they don't have much support in that community. It's a small town.

[redstatebluegirl]

27. Sorry the guy with the chicken manure just solidified his new name

chicken shit....fits a lot of trumpers.

[HAB911]

31. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT, buy a gift certificate you will never use

https://squareup.com/store/the-red-hen/item/red-hen-gift-certificate

[JHan]

37. I'd like to take this moment to thank the civility brigade for their foolishness...

Because they helped to successfully switch the narrative from children being separated from their parents at the border, to Sarah fucking Sanders being refused service at a restaurant.

[madville]

38. Not a good idea to politicize your business

From either side, especially in a purple-ish area. You immediately offend half your customer base, the restaurant business is tough enough as well without any controversary.