'Horrified' Rouses grocery co-owner apologizes for attending deadly Capitol riot in DC

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The co-owner of Rouses Markets released a statement saying he was “horrified” by Wednesday’s insurrection in Washington after a picture of him there was widely shared on social media, where people were calling for a boycott of the popular chain.

An image of Donald Rouse Sr., now retired, and former Rouses human resources director Steve Galtier flooded social media after Galtier posted a public image from the rally on Facebook of the crowd, saying, “Millions in DC today with us — more to follow.”

What followed was another image, in comments under the post, that caught the attention of Louisiana blogger Lamar White Jr. It showed Rouse and Galtier with the pro-Trump crowd behind them.

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The Thibodaux-based regional grocery chain has 60 locations, including three on the Mississippi Gulf Coast — one on Pass Road in Gulfport, one near Interstate 10 in Diamondhead and one off U.S. 90 in Ocean Springs.

https://www.sunherald.com/news/politics-government/article248345765.html

I believe he left before the violence started. Or at least when the violence started. No rich old white guy is going to storm the barricades with a bunch of people he wouldn't normally be caught in the same room with.

[brewens]

1. I'm so sorry I got caught! Just like Jimmy Swaggert. Any tears too? n/t

[bluestarone]

5. ......

same time!!!!

[bluestarone]

2. NO just sorry for being CAUGHT!

THAT'S what he;s sorry about.

[luv2fly]

4. All these people are cowards

You were there, own it.

This fake "horror" is meaningless.

[Totally Tunsie]

6. Another one...if he hadn't gotten caught,

he'd be out there bragging. The deed is done, a-hole, and you're the Loser.

[marmar]

7. They're all "horrified" now that it's hit the fan.

[LuvNewcastle]

8. The Sun Herald has a paywall.

I shop at Rouse's sometimes, but I won't if they're rioting in the Capitol. It's a shame because they're about the only good grocery chain we have left down here, unless you count Wal-Mart.

[UpInArms]

9. I hope he goes to prison

You should pick your friends carefully and seek the truth ... gullibility and naivety are not hallmarks

[Solly Mack]

10. Oh, no! There were photos? Who knew? I'm so sorry (I got caught)!

[stillcool]

11. so horrified they posted their picture on Facebook

[gratuitous]

12. How about a mulligan?

After all, my attempt to overthrow the United States government by force didn't succeed. Can we just let bygones be bygones? Look forward to the future, not backwards to the distant past? Why are you so snippy about a little mild insurrection? Everyone's so touchy! What about my feelings? I'm really horrified now!

[mercuryblues]

13. picture of 2 traitors

Link to tweet

[bullwinkle428]

14. Just like all the plantation owners getting the millions of dirt-poor

white people to do the fighting for them in the Civil War.

[struggle4progress]

15. "I didn't really mind his racism, or ripping infants from their parents' arms, or his crude remarks

about women, or teargassing people for a photo-op, or letting 350K people die, but now I'm getting boycott threats! So unfair!"

[Paladin]

16. Sort of makes me wish one of those stores was nearby where I live.

But it's probably just as well. I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to restrict my revenge efforts to a mere boycott.

[snowybirdie]

17. Same here

Florida grocer, Alfie Oakes of Oakes market and Seed to Table grocery stores in S. Florida paid for a bus load of seditionists to go to riot. He's also a big anti masker. Im not comfortable with shopping for food there any longer.

[Johnny2X2X]

18. They re all saying that they left before the violence started

Most didn't. The crowd didn't start dispersing until well after the doors were breached. Some of the GOP politicians in the riots were Tweeting out how glorious it was when they over ran security and broke through the barriers.

[Squinch]

19. Doesn't matter that he left before the violence. He was with them and he was there.

Boycott.

[Vinca]

20. Boycott them. All 60 stores.