A South Carolina jury recently found convenience store owner Chikei Rick Chow not guilty of murder in the 2023 death of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton in Columbia. In the trial, prosecutors argued that Chow chased and shot Cyrus after a false shoplifting accusation. According to CNN, the jury accepted the defense argument that Chow fired his weapon because he believed the teen pointed a gun at his son during the pursuit.
Following this decision, the Daily Dot highlighted a post on X featuring a video of a woman in a car calling for a boycott. In the clip, she addresses her “brown sisters and brothers” and states, “We’re boycotting Chinese food now” because “somebody can kill one of us then get away with it,” referencing the Carmack-Belton acquittal. At the end of the video, she says she is “boycottin’ [sic] Chinese food” and asks, “How about you?”
