A dress designer and shop owner in Occoquan, Virginia, is at a loss following a bizarre encounter with a local woman who called the police on his boutique for demonstrating his First Amendment rights by hanging Trump signs out front.
Andre Soriano, an atelier dress designer who is well-known for curating the “Make America Great Again” gown singer-songwriter Joy Villa wore to the 2017 Grammy Awards, received legal notice that he must remove signs in support of former President Trump from his business.
“I actually started a flag war here in Occoquan, Virginia,” Soriano told Fox News Digital during a video interview.
Soriano said though the first few moments of the encounter were pleasant, almost immediately, he was met with irrationality and backlash about the patriotic decor perched at the front of the store.
“The reason I put my Trump dress outside is, so I don’t have to encounter [this],” Soriano said.
Audra Johnson, a political activist and friend of Soriano, recorded the run in and posted it to social media after he texted her for help with the scene.
“I have a video of her hiding in a bush,” Johnson told Fox News Digital. “I don’t know what