Kids, Don't Try This at Home.

It's more sad than funny really.

Kellin was wearing a "Justice for Michael Brown -- Hands up!" button pinned to her shirt one recent evening as she stood outside the store's smashed windows, smoking a cigarette in the August heat.

"It's my people," she explained, holding up a picture on her phone of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, standing in the McDonald’s.

She told how recently a man had come up to the counter to order and yelled, "Hands up!'"

She was stunned at first. Then the man said, "You're supposed to say, 'Don't shoot!' "

Kellin said her manager stood there and looked at him.

"So I said, 'Don't shoot!’"