Bruce Ayers, the owner of the Stardome comedy club in Hoover, says that while "there wasn’t any explicit calls for violence," he is confident he “did the right thing for the club, for the customers, for everybody,” when he canceled comedian Michael Rapaport’s performance that has since garnered national attention.

Meanwhile, a second event hosted by the Chabad of Alabama featuring Rapaport is being hailed as a great success.

Ayers said that there were over 100 comments that came into the club via email, Facebook, Instagram and Google from people opposed to the performance, and many of them were threatening a protest. In hindsight, he said he realizes that some of the messages could have been from bots, but at the time, his priority was safety.

Citing the increase in violence that ha

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