Boise State coffee-shop owner backs ‘thin blue line,’ sparks campus uproar. Then this happened – By Jacob Scholl (Idaho Statesman) / Oct 29 2020
The closing of a coffee shop at Boise State University has caused an uproar on campus.
Since it arrived at the beginning of the fall semester, Big City Coffee and Cafe has faced scrutiny from students for displaying Thin Blue Line flags at the store’s main location in downtown Boise and voicing support for law enforcement. Such flags are often used to counterprotest the Black Lives Matter movement.
Students also raised concerns after the coffee shop posted a screenshot on Facebook and Instagram of a student’s Snapchat post that decried the shop’s support of the “thin blue line.”
Now, Big City Coffee and Cafe, a locally owned business that has operated in downtown Boise since 2006, has closed the campus shop. It was located in the university’s Albertsons Library, where it had replaced a Starbucks there.
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