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EASTHAM Hundreds of angry emails and texts. Hundreds of critical social-media posts. Calls to boycott his business. And as of Monday night, death threats. That’s what greeted Nathan Nickerson, owner of Arnold’s Lobster & Clam Bar since he took part in the pro-Trump march to the U.S. Capitol last week and then talked “nonchalantly” to Boston radio personality Howie Carr about the experience. As he returned to his Washington, D.C., hotel on Jan. 6, Nickerson told Carr: I was actually enjoying it all. It was kind of fun. At that point, Nickerson said Monday, he had listened to President Trump and others speak and then he only experienced a largely peaceful march to the Capitol. He regrets that radio interview and said he didn’t learn until later that what was billed as a “Stop the Steal” rally in support of overturning the election became a deadly storming of the halls of Congress by Trump’s supporters. ....
‘It was beyond reprehensible’: Arnold’s Lobster & Clam Bar owner denounces events at US Capitol, didn’t know the full extent of events when on ‘Howie Carr Show’ Updated Jan 12, 2021; Facebook Share The owner of Arnold’s Lobster & Clam Bar in Eastham is receiving backlash, including death threats after being at the U.S. Capitol Building when it was breached by insurrectionists but he was not part of that group, he said. “What they did was beyond breaking the law. I mean, people were killed,” Restaurant owner Nathan Nickerson III told MassLive. “I’m sad, so sad.” Nickerson was invited to the nation’s capitol through a friend who said they’d even pay for the hotel room. He had time, as his restaurant is closed for the season, so he went. ....
On Jan. 6, Nathan Nickerson III, owner of Arnold’s Lobster & Clam Bar in Eastham, attended the pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C. He marched to the Capitol as a violent mob sieged the government building, leaving five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer. He called into a conservative radio program to describe his experience. And then he apologized. In a now-deleted post published to the Eastham Community Space Facebook page on Jan. 6, Nickerson detailed his attendance and remorse for participating in what he thought was going to be “a peaceful protest.” “I would like my friends in Eastham [to] know I was at the Trump rally in Washington D.C. today to support Donald Trump for President,” Nickerson wrote. “I am not particularly fond of him personally but I am extremely worried about the direction the country is heading in. I thought it was a peaceful protest until I learned that some idiots got into the Capitol Building and Lord knows what they d ....