July 23, 2025 - Epoch Times
02:26
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| Time | Text |
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| We're getting death threats, threats to kill my children. | |
| We're getting doxxed. | |
| Phone rings. | |
| An eighteen-year-old Barista picks up the phone. | |
| She's called an F-ing C. You can fill in the blank. | |
| Our employees were terrified. | |
| So I ended up getting invited to the Board of Supervisors meeting. | |
| And I just started reading these comments that my wife and children and the public had to see. | |
| I didn't delete the expletives. | |
| I thought, you know, if we have to see this, you're going to experience it. | |
| Within 30 seconds, and you can see the video. | |
| You can go to realfreedomtalk.com. | |
| You can watch the video. | |
| Within 30 seconds, they had three sheriff's officers surrounding me, handcuffed me. | |
| I'd never been handcuffed. | |
| Hadn't even had a speeding ticket since probably, you know, early 20s, model citizen kind of thing. | |
| And I was just shocked. | |
| And my approach was, you all work for me. | |
| We pay your salaries. | |
| And I said, I have a right to speak. | |
| And I stood there and I was just holding on to the speaking stand because it was, you know, I'm having anxiety here. | |
| I don't know what's going on. | |
| And the officer who was arresting me said, you are resisting. | |
| I said, you're violating my civil rights. | |
| He said, you're resisting. | |
| I said, I'm not resisting. | |
| I'm just strong. | |
| I didn't know I was saying that. | |
| People picked up on that afterwards. | |
| I said, oh, that's awesome. | |
| What I was really saying was, you're not going to move me until I want to be moved because I'm holding on for dear life. | |
| Because I thought, I'm just going to stand here and exercise my free speech. | |
| So I was handcuffed, taken out of the room, booked for disorderly conduct. | |
| And the next day, because this was televised, I came to the shop and there were lines out the door. | |
| There were people who had traveled from other states. | |
| And it was overwhelming, Jan. | |
| I sat there at this round table inside the entrance, and it was just a steady stream of people for days. | |
| And people are throwing cash on the table for legal defense. | |
| People are praying over me. | |
| They're saying things like, God raised you up. | |
| And I'm just like, what? | |
| And one night, this is very personal, but after a day or two of this, I just went in the bathroom and I fell on my knees and I said, God, I know I could hide from this, but if I keep going, it's going to put a target on my chest. |
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