Bookstore owner defends calling police on woman who told Steve Bannon he was 'a piece of trash'

[Demovictory9]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/07/08/bookstore-owner-defends-calling-police-on-woman-who-told-steve-bannon-he-was-a-piece-of-trash/?utm_term=.c60fadb761ac


On Saturday afternoon, however, the independent bookstore in Virginia’s capital became the next stop in the roving battle over civility in politics, after a customer spotted former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon inside and confronted him.

Nick Cooke, the owner of Black Swan Books, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that a woman in his store began verbally accosting Bannon when she saw him, including calling the former Trump adviser “a piece of trash.” It was shortly afterward that Cooke decided to call police, he said.

“Steve Bannon was simply standing, looking at books, minding his own business,” Cooke told the newspaper. “I asked [the woman confronting Bannon] to leave, and she wouldn’t. And I said, ‘I’m going to call the police if you don’t,’ and I went to call the police and she left. And that’s the end of the story.”

The Richmond Police Department confirmed to the Times-Dispatch that a 911 call was made Saturday afternoon but said it was canceled before officers responded.

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On Saturday, the reaction to Black Swan Books was swift. Several vowed to boycott the bookstore; one woman accused the owner of “[turning] the store into a safe space for white nationalists.”

[tenderfoot]

1. turns out the wife (ex-wife?) of Nick Cooke from #BlackSwanBooks was a crook--she ended up getting

... sentenced to five years.

RECTOR RESIGNS AFTER WIFE IS ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLEMENT
By Laurie Goodstein
May 7, 1995
The Rev. Nicholas T. Cooke II, whose wife, Ellen, allegedly embezzled $2.2 million from Episcopal Church headquarters, where she was treasurer, told parishioners at St. John's Episcopal Church in McLean yesterday that he would resign as their rector because he needs to devote his energies to supporting his wife.

After Nicholas Cooke announced his decision at a meeting of more than 100 parishioners in the church's reception hall, most members who rose to speak said they favored the move. The vestry, the church's elected board of governors, voted unanimously late yesterday to accept Cooke's resignation, effective May 31.

"My primary calling," Cooke's resignation letter said, "is to support my family . . . {I could not} do this at this time and remain free to bring to St. John's the passionate leadership commitment that I believe it requires from its rector."

The last week has been a time of uncertainty at St. John's, a 1,400-member church considered one of the most prestigious pulpits in the Episcopal diocese of Virginia.

A national church investigation revealed Monday that Ellen Cooke allegedly stole $2.2 million over five years, a sum believed to be the largest embezzled from a mainline church. The accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand found that Ellen Cooke, who has not been charged with any crime, spent the money on a farm in Lancaster, Va., a house in Montclair, N.J., private school tuition for her sons and jewelry, meals and travel for herself, friends and relatives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/05/07/rector-resigns-after-wife-is-accused-of-embezzlement/50e8fd03-8a36-4131-8a6a-d5956f63994a/

[notdarkyet]

3. Need to be paid back. That is a lot of money. At least take the farm and a house. Why has she

Not been arrested?

[WillowTree]

8. Who is Norman Cooke?

And are you saying that you think that Nick Cooke who owns a bookstore in Richmond, Va is the same person as this minister from McLean, Va, more than 100 miles away? If so, please elaborate as to how you came to that conclusion.

[tenderfoot]

12. they're the same guy

[WillowTree]

18. Thank you.

It appears that it is the same person. You just hadn't drawn the connection in your first post.

[tenderfoot]

13. Same guy

https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/the_living_church/TLCarticle.pl?volume=210&issue=22&article_id=6

[Tipperary]

15. Where does it say that in that article?

[tenderfoot]

16. The articles are from the 1990s

guess they didn't know at the time.

BTW, it's not too obvious whose side you're on here.

[Tipperary]

17. Whether he is or not, he appears to be a liberal.

Gonna be a shame if this woman costs him his business. She could have said what she said to Bannon when he left the store. Or simply said, “you should be ashamed” to him, and then left.

[Demovictory9]

9. Where did HE think his wife was getting the money for their luxurious life?

[Mollyann]

19. Judge

Did you see where the judge in the wife's trial was Trump's sister? What a small world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/07/11/episcopal-church-ex-treasurer-gets-5-years-for-embezzlement/1bac7ca0-7334-4ba0-bfd6-add28ba6baff/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.086ade1c3b11

[itsrobert]

2. Seeing Bannon is a Visual Assualt

The store owner should have called the police on him.

[Hoyt]

4. I probably would have called police too in case the racist was packing a gun.

Drunks, racists and guns are not a good mix.

[workinclasszero]

6. Bannon was looking for science books

Stocking up for the next Trump hate rally book burning.

And the owner is apparently an embezzler as well. Figures.

[rzemanfl]

7. Everyone knows he is a piece of shit. Dunno how she got that wrong.

Maybe she was trying to be "civil."

[McCamy Taylor]

10. ROFLMAO

[rzemanfl]

11. Thank you. n/t

[Quixote1818]

14. Could not have been any worse than what Trump has called him nt