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1/ The ties between armed vigilante & white supremacy groups are real

The armed demonstration at the North Carolina @Subway was organized by “Blue Igloo” a homophone for "boogaloo," a movement of online racists & xenophobes who are pushing for a race war

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@SUBWAY 2/ The term emerged in the summer of 2019 on social media platforms shared by gun activists & white supremacists. It is derived from the 1984 movie "Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo" and serves as code for a potential second civil war vice.com/en_us/article/…
@SUBWAY 3/ The "Blue Igloo" group that showed up at @Subway appeared at General Assembly in Raleigh, NC on Friday carrying firearms. To organize the event group's administrator tagged more than a dozen other boogaloo-themed Facebook accounts triad-city-beat.com/armed-boogaloo…
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1/ Raleigh’s police chief is considering charges against people who carried weapons through downtown this weekend, including into a @SUBWAY

We've called on @SUBWAY to ban open carry in their restaurants but they've remained silent. #HoagiesNotHandguns #FootlongsNotFirearms Image
@SUBWAY 2/ I've made every effort to talk to @SUBWAY about banning open carry of firearms in their restaurants.

- Tweeted at them
- Sent Facebook messages
- Called
- Emailed

@SUBWAY's silence about customers bringing weapons of war into their restaurant is completely unacceptable
@SUBWAY 3/3 I'M ASKING FOR YOUR HELP:

Please use this toolkit to urge @SUBWAY to ban open carry of firearms in their restaurants.

Their customers & employees deserve to be safe and free of armed intimidation. docs.google.com/document/d/1dJ…

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