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Omaha Diner’s Robert E. Lee Breakfast Dish Sparks Protests

Demonstrators are also angry the owner’s son made Facebook posts calling for Black Lives Matter marchers to be shot.

An Omaha, Nebraska, diner has been closed for two days after being targeted by protesters outraged by Facebook posts from the owner’s son and a breakfast dish named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The Omaha World-Herald reports that demonstrators tried to come to terms with the owner, Tony Caniglia, to no avail. “There is no longer a negotiation,” Mitchell said. “We want that place shut down.” The newspaper says Caniglia’s son wrote on Facebook: “Get rid of the rubber bullets and it’s time to go lethal.” The restaurant complained on its Google listing that protesters were trying to link the owner to a post “that was not made by him.”