The owners of a café in Northeastern Florida say they are fearful for their employees’ safety after an out-of-town customer claimed on Facebook to have witnessed workers “openly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder” – an allegation the proprietors flatly deny in a federal defamation lawsuit reviewed by The Independent.
In their complaint, Ray and Paige Carter, the proprietors of Amelia Island Coffee, say Atlanta resident Blake Buchanan’s “widely disseminated” allegation has exposed them and the shop’s staff to “threats of violence or actual violence committed against them because of the false Facebook post.”
