Napa AutoPro on Wellington Road updated its reader board with the message “Clown lives matter” on Monday. Thank you for your understanding.”Just hours earlier, employee Jon Adler had defended the sign, saying he was getting positive feedback. We always put funny stuff out there,” Adler said of the sign that references the rash of recent clown scares sweeping across North America. Four young men wearing Western University clothing were photographed in front of a makeshift sign that said “Western lives matter” during the school’s unofficial Homecoming celebration on Oct. 1. Critic blasted the Western sign, saying it made light of the Black Lives Matter movement, an international campaign against systematic racism and violence directed at black people.

Source: National Post October 19, 2016 18:45 UTC