Restaurant Owner Refuses To Take Down Sign Honoring Vet Killed By Teen Thug According to a recently report, a local restaurant in Spokane, Washington took the I Cant Breathe slogan used in the death of Eric Garner and put their own marketing spin on it. If you visit Hillside Inn Restaurant, you will see a sign reading Shorty Cant Breathe Either. The sign was posted by Annie Pennington, whose family owns the restaurant. The sign was meant to honor Delbert Belton, a World War II veteran who was beaten to death in August of 2013. We did it in honor of Shorty because hes a selfless old man, and if we dont take care of our grandpas, no one will, Pennington told reporters. Belton was a regular at the diner, and was good friends with Penningtons father. A black teenager pleaded guilty to the murder, and another will be tried in March in the case. Pennington claims that she believes that Belton deserved equal support in his death that Garner had in his death. Although she claims her comment was not meant to be racial it was more about being tired of crime in their neighborhood. Still, NAACP President Rachel Dolezal felt that the sign was too controversial and needed to be taken down. Even if the intention is not associated with that, using the same words implies an association, she said, adding that Pennington should have used a totally different slogan. People will connect it to that issue. Still, Pennington claims that the whole thing is just a misunderstanding. What do you think? Should I Cant Breathe be associated only with Garner? 