Surveillance footage shows someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at a donut shop in Oklahoma that recently hosted an art installation by people wearing drag.
The business' glass door and window were previously shattered in October, days after the event, the local CBS-affiliate News on 6 reported.
The store, The Donut Hole, is located in the Brookside neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The store, The Donut Hole, is located in the Brookside neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Surveillance footage the store posted on Facebook shows a person with a red hat, black hoodie, and dark blue pants walk in front of the building, smash the glass door in, and throw a lit Molotov cocktail inside.
They also tacked anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and Bible verses on the front of a business next door, according to Tulsa World, citing a spokesman from the Tulsa Fire Department. The incident — which resulted in minor damages, as the cocktail didn't have a significant effect — took place at around 2:30 a.m. on Monday, News on 6 reported.
"We don't have words at this point," the donut shop wrote on its Facebook page on Monday.
The page later posted a statement about the incident, saying the damage was not severe and that they felt lucky that neither their shop nor the neighboring businesses were harmed. The art event was a one-time show called "The Queens Dirty Dozens" that featured donut sculptures, according to the post.
"Our hearts are broken that someone could even be this hateful to our friends who attended the show to do something like this," the post says.
Once on the porch, the man took a baseball bat and smashed open the windows of The Donut Hole, before throwing a lit molotov cocktail through the windows. It’s the latest explicitly queer or queer-adjacent business to be targeted in recent months, following unfounded accusations of “grooming” or “mutilating” kids— usually trans kids.
Last month, The Donut Hole hosted an art installation that employed drag queens as servers. The first event sold donut sculptures and real donuts to more than 500 guests. Since the Oct. 15 opening of artist Daniel Gulick’s “The Queens Dirty Dozens,” the shop has been targeted twice.
Shortly after the massively successfully event, the shop’s front door and and windows were broken. Someone stole electronic equipment and the register. A GoFundMe was set up to recoup the shop’s losses. The originally $2,500 fundraiser raised more than $16,000 as of publishing.
Obviously, the second attack was much more brutal than losing some windows and equipment. In security footage posted to Facebook, the masked man can be seen violently beating at the windows to gain entry to the empty store. After finally breaking through, he runs over to grab a motolov cocktail bomb he’d placed on a picnic table, quickly lights it, throws it into the empty store, and runs away. The attack is over in about a minute.
Monday morning’s attack forced the Thursday night event to be cancelled. “Love will always win but enough is enough,” the shop wrote in the caption for the Facebook video that shows the brutal attack. “Due to the windows being smashed out again and a fire, we are forced to cancel our event. We tried. And we’re sorry.”
The Tulsa World reported that police have a person of interest. The arson case may be charged as a felony, Tulsa Fire Department spokesperson Andy Little told the newspaper. Though the fire did minimal damage, “if [someone] intentionally set a fire and we have to respond, they’re causing us to have to go into danger that wouldn’t have normally been there,” Little said.
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