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The bar has not released any public statements since. In the wake of the initial incident, the bar issued a statement saying that it had fired the “independent security contractor” who assaulted Young and that the business would be closed for the next several weeks while management investigated the situation. Green, who is co-conductor of the Black-led community defense group Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, also stated that some - but not all - protesters wanted Nellie’s to be closed permanently and converted into a community center run for and by the Black LGBTQ+ community. Keisha Young is just one of many to suffer from the gentrification of D.C.’s Black queer spaces. According to the Blade, protesters have been assembling outside Nellie’s nearly every Saturday night since the initial protests, despite the bar’s closure.
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One of the organizers of Tuesday’s protest, Makia Green, laid out a list of demands: a full public apology from Nellie’s, the release of the tape of the June 13 incident, and the establishment of “public listening sessions” between the bar’s management and community. But according to activists, little has changed in the intervening years. Mitchum has been protesting Nellie’s since 2017, when he penned an open letter asking for accountability and an end to the bar’s anti-Black legacy. “In my experience, the one thing that connects many, many white communities is white supremacy, even from people I ordinarily agree with politically. “I'm not surprised by how Nellie's reacted because I'm not surprised how white supremacist ideology shows up even from supposed progressives,” said Mitchum, an attorney and co-chair of Collective Action for Safe Space (CASS). that Nellie’s has a long history of security guards displaying more aggression towards Black patrons than white ones. Preston Mitchum, who co-organized the initial protests, told them. Local community organizers echoed Young’s sentiment. “I’m just happy that it didn’t escalate too far and that I’m still here in my pain and grief still able to tell my story and get justice.” “I’m feeling a little humiliated to have went viral being assaulted by a Black man who should be protecting me,” she wrote.