{"id":56496,"date":"2020-08-29T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hamptons-brewery-targeted-with-boycott-over-black-lives-matter-support\/"},"modified":"2020-08-29T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T18:09:00","slug":"hamptons-brewery-targeted-with-boycott-over-black-lives-matter-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hamptons-brewery-targeted-with-boycott-over-black-lives-matter-support\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hamptons brewery targeted with boycott over Black Lives Matter support"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hamptons brewery targeted with boycott over Black Lives Matter support<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 29, 2020 |<\/span> 2:09pm <\/p>\n

\n A Hamptons craft brewery\u2019s declaration of support for Black Lives Matter unwittingly tapp<\/a>ed into a groundswell of community outrage.<\/p>\n

Weeks after principals of the Montauk Brewing Company posted their backing for the group in pastel chalk on a board outside their Montauk tasting room and pledged to donate part of their profits to civil rights groups, the beer company became the target of a sometimes vicious online boycott.<\/p>\n

Robert Frank, a police officer in Suffolk County, and his real estate agent wife Valeria Frank formed the Facebook<\/a> group \u201cDefund Montauk Brewing Company\u201d on Aug. 12. The group currently boasts nearly 30,000 Facebook followers.<\/p>\n

Its purpose is \u201cto bring awareness to the recent events that Montauk Brewing Company has decided to take \u2026 by supporting an extremist organization,\u201d according to its Facebook page.<\/p>\n

Entrance to the private \u201cDefund\u201d group requires social media users to answer yes or no to the questions \u201cDo you support extremist radical organizations?\u201d and \u201cDo you believe ALL LIVES MATTER?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Michael O\u2019Keefe, a novelist and retired NYPD homicide detective, said that most of the members are retired or active police officers on Long Island who feel sidelined by the Black Lives Matter movement. \u201cWe\u2019ve been so beaten down,\u201d he told The Post. \u201cIf you want to sell beer on the backs of our dead bodies, we\u2019re not going to participate.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Keefe said the Franks were stunned when the membership catapulted into the thousands. \u201cWe now want to go in a new direction, and use our voices to support businesses that support the police,\u201d O\u2019Keefe said.<\/p>\n

In addition to posts blasting the craft brewer as a \u201cMarxist hate group\u201d and a video of a can of Montauk Pumpkin Ale being poured down a sink, many took their grievances to Yelp. There were so many negative posts that Yelp added a warning that posts could be \u201crelated to media reports.\u2019<\/p>\n

The BLM-support message was written on a chalk board June 2, a week after the May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis cop. It read, \u201cThe founders and team at Montauk Brewing Company support the movement with all our hearts. Black lives matter.\u201d It was written by co-owner Vaughan Cutillo.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the boycott grew, the company\u2019s owners issued a lengthy letter on their Instagram page on Aug. 15 reaffirming their support to Black Lives Matter, and noting that they had made contributions to nonprofits, including the NAACP. They also said they \u201cconsistently donate to police precincts, fire fighters the Navy Seal Foundation, Wounded Warrior Project.\u201d They posted another chalkboard message saying \u201cwe support good people doing good things.\u201d<\/p>\n

That did little to assuage critics. \u201cPlease stay out of politics. You\u2019re a beer company,\u201d posted one social-media user.<\/p>\n

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Montauk Brewing Company apology\/clarification post on Facebook.<\/span>facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The craft brewer was founded in 2012 by three friends who attended East Hampton High School and has grown to be the second largest brewery on Long Island.<\/p>\n

In a statement to The Post, a spokesman said, \u201cMontauk Brewing Company values and respects everyone. \u2026 we\u2019ll always support the people of our Long Island home, and their right to peacefully protest but never condone violence of any kind against those who keep us safe and secure.\u201d<\/p>\n

They did not comment on whether the boycott has hurt business.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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