Minneapolis Cafe Refuses to Serve Trump Supporters

Paula Liu
By Paula Liu
October 18, 2019News
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Minneapolis Cafe Refuses to Serve Trump Supporters
A Donald Trump supporter holds a Keep America Great banner at a rally in Manchester, N.H., on Aug. 15, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Three women at a Trump rally visited a nearby cafe hoping to grab something to eat and found themselves denied services by the establishment, according to multiple reports.

Alpha News reported that the three women, who were wearing their MAGA hats and a “Cops for Trump” T-shirt, were called “terrorists” and told they “killed” people upon entering the establishment.

This same day, President Trump visited Minneapolis where the rally was held. Ahead of the rally, the three women made their way to the HardTimes cafe in order to buy something to eat and use the cafe’s facilities. However, what they did not know was that the establishment had some strong views on the president.

Jennifer Underwood, one of the three Trump supporters, stated a woman behind the counter started saying she was afraid, according to the news outlet, and Underwood was puzzled as to what it was that woman behind the counter was referring to.

“As soon as we walked in, just looking for something small to eat, a blonde woman shook her head and said she didn’t feel safe and that she was afraid,” Underwood said, according to the news outlet. “I turned around thinking there were some scary looking people behind us or robbers but when I saw no one I was confused.”

Shortly afterwards, Underwood began to record the experience on her phone.

According to the video on Youtube, the three women were constantly being told that they terrorized people and were terrorists. There was a bit of arguing in the video, and the three women were eventually forced to leave by the cafe owners without much of an explanation, according to Alpha News.

One of the other women made to leave, Jennifer Kearney Pettito, had also been filming the incident, although from a different angle, shown when the video changes perspective. The woman who was behind the counter made her way to the front and tried to block Kearney Pettito from filming.

In addition, near the end of Kearney Pettito’s version of the video, a man walked over and hit Kearney Pettito’s phone with a fork that he was holding.

The women went to two other establishments afterward and were also denied service, albeit in a more respectful manner, according to Underwood, reported Alpha News.

When Underwood and Kearney Pettito posted their videos on Facebook, many users left angry and negative comments. One user, Naomi Leiniger, called Underwood a “nazi” and wrote that “wearing Trump fear is terrorism, it is designed to insight [sic] fear and terror.”

In addition, Facebook users were also reportedly going on Underwood’s real estate page to leave negative reviews, according to Alpha News.

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