Friday, June 15, 2012

Store Refuses to Serve Guardsman (Bogalusa)


http://www.gobogalusa.com/news/article_5dd53c8e-b0e1-11e1-8d13-001a4bcf887a.html

The Daily News [Bogalusa, LA]
7 June 2012


BY MARCELLE HANEMANN
The Daily News

The impact of social media was evident in Bogalusa Thursday after a message posted on Facebook prompted rapid and widespread calls for the boycott of a local store, and a small group of people assembled outside the establishment waving American flags and telling their story to passers-by.

Inside, Savi, the East Indian owner of SP Truck Stop, the former Duval’s located across Louisiana Highway 10 from the American Legion Home, was upset and confused.

The Facebook message was a forward from a woman who sent a mobile phone message claiming that her husband was in line at the store and heard a uniformed member of the National Guard told “We don’t serve your kind.”

The Facebook messenger then called for a boycott to “force them out of business,” and invited people to “share.” [...]

http://www.gobogalusa.com/news/article_cbe59bd0-b2fb-11e1-80c5-001a4bcf887a.html

The Daily News [Bogalusa, LA]
10 June 2012


BY MARCELLE HANEMANN
The Daily News The Daily News

On Friday, the day after a posting on Facebook prompted dozens of flag-waving protestors to assemble in front of a store that allegedly refused service to a uniformed member of the National Guard, a Louisiana National Guard spokesman said he had heard nothing, from his people, of such a slight. [...]

http://www.gobogalusa.com/news/article_a9ef82a6-b559-11e1-a277-0019bb2963f4.html

The Daily News [Bogalusa, LA]
13 June 2012


By Richard Meek
The Daily News The Daily News