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Candace Owens started a GoFundMe for a Birmingham bar owner that raised over 200K.
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According to Variety, the 200K was raised for Birmingham’s Parkside Cafe, a popular Birmingham bar that had just opened after shutting down due to the pandemic.
But after co-owner Michael Dykes sent a text to his partner about charging a “protest tax” because his bar couldn’t remain open past a 7 p.m. curfew, imposed by the city after protests turned violent, the campaign was suspended.
AL.com reports that that the text was shared among the bar’s employees and one of them, Lacey King, posted it in on Friday in a now-deleted Facebook post.
Owens herself has come under fire for an exchange with conservative radio host Glenn Beck, by saying that while she doesn’t believe Floyd deserved to die, holding him up as a martyr is ill-advised.
