Smack Tea Hut is weird, as I've mentioned before. Yesterday, there was an anti-racist alert sent out on twitter that had over two hundred likes/retweets that there was a "confirmed Proud Boys sighting" there. I wasn't totally surprised, because some of the cops/military dudes who go in there have that look and it just wouldn't shock me. But the bar tending staff is pretty diverse (I know it doesn't mean anything, but there are black, latinx, and gay bartenders), and I've seen it as a relatively safe and welcoming space for people of color and trans people, etc., but also a welcoming space to guns rights guys and cops, so yeah.
Anyway, turns out the confirmed sighting was one of the bartenders, who is Puerto Rican, because he had a bandana face covering with a Call of Duty sign on it. Like, they even went up to him and started questioning him, and still posted that it was a confirmed Proud Boys sighting. Now, I 100% guarantee this guy doesn't have a clue who the Proud Boys are. He is super pro-gun, and has one of those "you'll pry my gun from my cold dead hands" bumper sticker, but I'm pretty sure he is not racist/bigoted in any way, and generally seems to have a good heart -- though, yeah, you never know.
Felt bad for my dude, and felt kind of bad for the business, but in other ways, they have opened themselves up for some criticism like that in the past. I dunno, it was weird. I get that everyone's on edge, but it was pretty irresponsible to put that it was "confirmed" when it definitely wasn't, it was just two of the bartenders/managers wearing video game shirts.