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Abraham “Avrumy” Knofler was caught outside of a Burley Coffee throwing a fit over a Black Lives Matter sign.
You won’t be surprised to find out this he is a super MAGA Trump supporter.
The man in the video, Abraham “Avrumy” Knofler, confirmed to Gothamist in a phone interview that he was protesting at the coffee shop today. “I was making a protest—all lives matter,” he said. Asked what he was trying to get out of this, he said, “They don’t have to take it down, I just wanted to defend all lives matter.” On his Twitter page, Knofler is decidedly pro-Trump, with lots of RTs of conservative figures; he also refers to coronavirus as a hoax (“#covidBS”).
Knofler still refused to leave, bringing up several conservative talking points—like that Republicans freed the slaves—and on top of all that, he also refused to wear a mask. “Why do I need a mask?” he asked repeatedly, before starting to chant “all lives matter” and claiming he was protesting. Earlier in the argument, he can also be heard declaring, “the pandemic is a hoax, only sheep like you wear the mask, because you’ve been told whatever you’ve been told, but you don’t use your head, because you’re stupid.”
He looks exactly like most MAGA people do.
This is Trump’s America.
Flip the pages for the video and some of the Twitter reactions.