"You need to make another video and don't be shy," NAACP regional director Tracey Edwards said. "Apologize to all of us."
A Long Island, New York, restaurant owner was being slammed as racist Tuesday after he recorded himself in a Facebook video calling people who were peacefully protesting the death of George Floyd"animals" and"savages" and saying he would throw watermelons at them.
He estimates in the video, first reported by Huntington Now, that there were 100 police officers present. A Suffolk County police spokeswoman told NBC News the protest was peaceful and drew up to 200 people. "THIS WAS A PEACEFUL PROTEST AND IT STILL WAS A PROBLEM TO SOME PEOPLE...," she wrote in the post Monday that has been widely shared."DO YOU SEE WHY PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE FED UP NOW?"
Story continues"We have to hold people accountable, especially business owners," Chavez said."We need business owners to support us the way we support them." Petrone did not immediately return requests for comment. Calls to his restaurant went unanswered and his Facebook account is no longer active.He identifies himself at the start of the video and says he did something that he"did not want to do.""I apologize. I was wrong," Petrone says."I totally did not mean anything to hurt anybody. And I apologize sincerely."
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