A white restaurateur told a black customer not to wear an 'I can't breathe' shirt. Protests and a

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A white restaurateur told a black customer not to wear an ‘I can’t breathe’ shirt. Protests and a boycott followed.


The closure of the local watering hole — maybe temporary, maybe not — started with a bright yellow T-shirt inscribed with three words: “I can’t breathe.”

Daryl Rollins bought the shirt in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in police custody in Minneapolis. Rollins, who is black, said he had never personally experienced discrimination until a recent Friday, when he wore the shirt while waiting in line at the Fish Market of Maryland in Clinton.

“You can’t wear that shirt in my establishment,” Rollins said owner Rick Giovannoni, who is white, told him, insisting he take the T-shirt off or turn it inside out.

The episode struck a nerve in Prince George’s County, a majority-black suburb of Washington where residents have long complained that they do not have the quality restaurants and retail establishments that thrive in neighboring jurisdictions.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/fish-market-maryland-i-cant-breathe/2020/07/09/c25b7c42-c062-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html