A popular restaurant in Sonoma, California, is closed until further notice after it received threats for prohibiting an employee from wearing a Black Lives Matter mask. The Girl And The Fig closed its doors without providing a timeline for when it might reopen to the general public, according to ABC 7 News. A former server named Kimi Stout recently announced that she left the company last September after she was told she couldn’t wear her Black Lives Matter face mask. "I would have absolutely abided by the mask rules if they had a sign up that said Black Lives Matter,” Stout said. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kimi Stout (@stoutkimi) Restaurant co-owner John Toulze told the Sonoma Index-Tribune that the incident has had “devastating” effects on the business and staff have been threatened with violence. The owners of the French-inspired restaurant took to Facebook on Wednesday to offer their interpretation of the events that led to the woman's departure from the...
