Abraham "Avrumy" Knofler records a barista at Burley Coffee in Bedford-Stuyvesant as he demanded her to take down a "Black Lives Matter" sign.
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A lone white male ‘protester’ in Brooklyn demanded Thursday morning that a “Black Lives Matter” sign be removed from the front of a café in Bed-Stuy, the historically Black neighborhood made famous by Spike Lee, and the ironic demonstration was all caught on video.
Despite the worker, who is not Black, trying her best to explain why the term “Black Lives Matter” doesn’t mean that other non-Black lives don’t matter, Knofler continued to spew his detest for the phrase that has in recent weeks, in particular, become a rallying call as tens of thousands of people marched in protest of historical and systemic racism in the United States.
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“I don’t understand why this is so offensive to you, to see something saying that ‘Black Lives Matter,'” the barista said to Knofler.
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At one point, Knofler is told that he needs to leave not only for his disturbance over the sign but also because he wasn’t wearing a mask.
