A jewelry store in Massachusetts has come under fire after their billboard showing a man proposing to a woman on the football field was called racist.
The billboard advertising Garieri Jewelers in Sturbridge, Mass., reads: “If you’re going to take a knee this season, please have a ring in your hand!”
"It was intended to be attention-getting," Garieri told Boston 25 News.
He said the reactions to the billboard were at first positive until one driver, traveling down Route 20, took a picture of the billboard, posted it on Facebook and called it racist.
"Someone saw it, pulled in off Route 20 and took a picture of it and then went off about how racist it is," Garieri told Boston 25 News. "Then they started attacking us, they wanted to come in and vomit on the [jewelry] cases, they were going to urinate on our sidewalks."
Comments flooded social media including one that said Garieri’s daughter, Alexandria, who manages the store, should kill herself.
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