Per reports by the Southeast Missourian, Brandi Wilson, a black woman in Jackson, Missouri claimed that she was fired from her job, a bar called Barrel 131, after she posted how she was offended by the "Back the Blue" sign seen outside of the Ground-A-Bout coffee shop.

Wilson contacted the owner of the establishment vis Facebook, but the post was not private and in response, received a lot of negative feedback.

Originally, Wilson did not intend to share her disdain on social media.

“The coffee was really good, and I was actually going to ask to speak to the owner, but they weren’t there,” she said.

In defense of the sign, the owner Bob Schooley, replied saying, “Race, religion [and] culture couldn’t be further from our minds with regards to the meaning of this sign."

Schooley also pled his case that the sign was not meant to be used as a political statement but as support of law enforcement.

However, Wilson did not see it that way for obvious reasons considering how the terms "back the blue", "Blue lives matter", or "Police lives matter" were coined in opposition of "Black lives matter".

“There are so many other things you can say (to express support for police), so I just thought it was insensitive,” explained Wilson.

She told the newspaper, “I was like, ‘You know what? Maybe they don’t know that. So I’ll just say it this way. … Hey, this is my experience, this is the way it made me feel … I felt uncomfortable.’ I felt as though [the business owners] weren’t being aware that [they] have more than one audience.”

Though Wilson did not profanely express her issues with the sign or do anything inappropriate or unprofessional, she says that she was called in by the owner of her job and fired.

“That’s the reason that was put down that I was fired. I know that’s why I was fired, and that’s the reason they told me. They didn’t give me some runaround. They said, ‘No. It’s just that there are people who will not come drink here if you’re working here,'" said Wilson referring to her former boss.

Because the post and Schooley's reply received a lot of views and unsolicited comments, it is suggested that that is how the owners got a whiff of the exchange and terminated Wilson to prevent loss of customers.

Despite him disagreeing with Wilson, Schooley, however, said that he never wished ill of her.

“Obviously when people show overwhelming support for something you said, there’s a tendency to feel validated, but I say that with sadness,” he said. “It’s upsetting. We feel sorry for any negative repercussions (she received.)”

Though Wilson says that she can see why her former employers would feel obligated to fire her, she is still disappointed.

“I stand up for myself. I say, ‘Hey, I don’t like this; this makes me uncomfortable,’ and you fire me from my job. What does that tell people?” she said. “That tells people they shouldn’t respectfully stand up for themselves and say what things bother them, and that just reinforces a broken system.”

Joe Hobbs, one of the owners of Barrel 131, has been reached out to for comments but stated that he cannot release said confidential details.