Georgia restaurant has issued an apology for its contentious Halloween decorations, that showed a person hanging from the ceiling by a noose, a sack over its head and with bound hands. After the backlash the decorations, Doc’s Porchside in Augusta is no longer open according to The Augusta Chronicle.
The restaurant alleged employees installed the prop — supposedly merchandise purchased years ago from HalloweenProps.com — exactly as they took them out of the box and didn’t make any alterations.
“We decorated for Halloween and a hanging zombie was included with our décor,” Doc’s Porchside in a statement said The Chronicle reported. The decorations showed photos of a green zombie to back their claims.
“Our intention was a Halloween theme, and we’re sorry for the offensive nature. … We have removed the zombie from the decorations,” read the Doc’s Porchside statement, according to The Chronicle. TikTok content creator Camisha Riggins, an Augusta resident, created several videos.
When she examined the Doc Porchside’s menu, which includes items like the “Mason-Dixon Burger” and the “Redneck Egg Roll,” the restaurant’s objective “is not that far-fetched.”
“I made the TikTok because I’m an African American woman, I am in the Augusta area, I’ve eaten there once before, so it was just mind-boggling that that happened,” Riggins said, The Chronicle reported.
“Why would you cover the head of the zombie as if [it]were like back in the day when they used to lynch us as African Americans. They used to put bags over our heads and [tie]our hands behind our back. That is the way that they used to lynch us,” Riggins added.
The restaurant, which has another location in Grovetown, declined to confirm the employment status of the people who made the purchase, installed the decoration or gave it their approval.
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