Posted on 07/19/2018 10:34:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
On Thursday, protesters held signs and screamed at patrons in front of Asher Caffe & Lounge located at 945 S. Boyle Ave. in Boyle Heights, a traditionally Jewish neighborhood that is now predominately Latino. They say they oppose the cafe and the owner over his support of Trump’s immigration policies.
“So what’s the connection? This is what I don’t understand. I’m confused — the connection between Donald Trump and good coffee,” Israeli-born businessman Asher Shalom told CBS2 News.
The kosher cafe was set to have a grand opening on July 12, the day anti-gentrification activists were met by Los Angeles Police officers blocking the entrance. According to Eater LA, about 30 protesters associated with the group Defend Boyle Heights (DBH) showed up to speak up against Shalom, who they called “an anti-immigrant trump loving gentryfier” in a Facebook post.
“It was very scary,” said Shalom’s daughter Yael. “There was a lot of people protesting outside wearing masks […] and they threw a significant amount of feces at our windows.”
DBH was accused of using similarly aggressive tactics against another coffeeshop in the area last year and against an art gallery nearby that eventually shuttered.
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The sooner the better.
Hang in there, Shalom!
I didn’t think there were any Jews left in Boyle Heights for the past 50 years.
Ironic the guy’s name is Shalom. I’m for California (including everyone living there currently) being sold to Mexico.
If LE doesn’t find, arrest, charge, prosecute and convict these barbarians, this neigborhood is going to become nothing but the huge, infected pimple that it evidently aspires to be.
There is the whole “anti-gentrification” movement too. Same cowardly protesters, new target.
You do realize that would put the FreeRepublic HQ in Mexico, right?
Saw this story last night on our local commie news..this guy was portrayed as a racist, of course, since he supports President Trump..that is how ALL Trump supporters are portrayed here in LA, automatic racist
Nazi Germany 1935. Democrats 2018.
It begins with financial destruction, personal smears, and violence.
Ya gotta LOVE Dems:-) “It was very scary,” said Shalom’s daughter Yael. “There was a lot of people protesting outside wearing MASKS […] and they threw a significant amount of feces at our windows.”
NO, I’m for non Americans to be sold to Mexico
California stays
I've thought for a long time that the Nazis could not have done what they did without a lot of underlying anti-Semitism.
More foul attacks like this and the number of off-the-fence frightened voters waiting to vote Republican will continue to grow.
OBTW, it’s OK to be a Nazi again. You just have to be nonwhite.
I suppose we can now rightfully call them monkeys.
you do realize FR is in Fresno, right?
Boyle Heights. The latino Beverly hills LOL, I dont go there unless needed to. The best looking houses there are owned by whites.
I agree with some this is not about Trump. It’s about these wetbacks kicking out non brownies out of the area. The same thing happened in Compton.
Anyone been to COMPTON Mall? It’s mostly latino. The homeys got their asses kicked and outbred by la raza..
Oops! OK, I can retract that statement. Just oh so sick of hearing about all the trashing of that beautiful state, its interest in going solely socialist, and the majority being anti-American.
As a lifelong Californian, I would agree with you, but only if...
The northern limit of the sale is fifteen miles south of Fresno, with high voltage double fence for the southern 5 miles, with 500,000 proximity mines in between.
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