The brewery has received threats after announcing it would no longer allow a “rally against censorship” featuring Kyle Rittenhouse to be held there. “It’s been kind of a shitstorm. But now I’m more certain than ever that I made the right decision.”
Kyle Rittenhouse during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis. on Nov. 10, 2021., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Fougeron also said that he was not aware until a few days ago that the event’s “special guest” was Rittenhouse. And he disputed claims – including those from Rittenhouse and others – that the cancellation came after pressure from a “woke mob” or distributors such as H-E-B. On Friday evening, Rittenhouse – who was famously acquitted of fatally shooting two people in Kenosha, Wis. at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 – accused the brewery of censoring him.
The Jan. 26 event was also set to include a leader of TEXIT, a group that advocates for Texas to secede from the United States. The event organizer is Defiance Press, a Conroe-based publisher behind titles including"Corona-fascism" and a biography of Joe Arpraio, the former Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff who refused a judge's order to stop racial profiling by his department.
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