Primanti Bros Sparks Outrage Among Italian Americans After Refusing to Serve JD Vance – Italian Civil Rights League Compares Incident to Jim Crow, Calls for National Boycott
Republican vice presidential nominee Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance outside the Primanti Bros restaurant in North Versailles, Pennsylvania after being barred from meeting Trump supporters inside, screen image via Anissa Zappala, X Twitter, September 28, 2024.
Primanti Bros, a Pittsburgh-based restaurant chain, has become the center of a political firestorm after refusing to serve Ohio Senator JD Vance.
The Italian American Civil Rights League (IACRL) is now calling for a nationwide boycott of the restaurant, comparing the incident to the segregationist policies of Jim Crow.
Sen. Vance arrived at the Primanti Bros to greet a group of Trump supporters. However, he was met with resistance from the restaurant’s staff.
An employee informed Vance’s campaign that it was “not a campaign stop” and that “JD’s not allowed in.” According to witnesses,
