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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 04:44 PM Jul 2021

Racist Whopper Rager Sentenced To Probation

The Florida retiree who hurled a Whopper and racial slurs at a Burger King employee in a rage over the thickness of a tomato on her sandwich has been sentenced to probation following a plea to battery, court records show.

Judith Black, 78, entered a no contest plea to the misdemeanor charge during an appearance Tuesday in a county courthouse near her home in The Villages, the vast Florida retirement community. Black was sentenced to 12 months probation, fined $785, and ordered to attend anger management classes. Judge Paul Militello also barred Black from returning to the Burger King where the battery occurred, and ordered her to have no contact with the worker she attacked.

As recounted in an arrest affidavit, Black’s 6 PM outburst stemmed from her dismay “about the thickness of the tomato on her sandwich.” Black, investigators reported, brought her complaint to the restaurant’s front counter, where she began yelling at Tapraisha Brown, a 23-year-old Burger King employee. Brown told cops that she advised Black that unless she calmed down her tomato issue would not be addressed.

When Brown turned her back, Black threw her Whopper, striking the worker below the neck. Black then told the worker, “Shut up you black bitch” and spewed a series of racial slurs. When police later questioned Black at her residence, she confessed to the ballistic behavior, saying that she was “angry that the victim was not fixing the issue,” according to the affidavit. Cops reported that Black also admitted to calling the worker a “stupid black bitch” and a "black ni**er," and declaring, "fuck you black ni**ers."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/whopper-rage-probation-286013

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Racist Whopper Rager Sentenced To Probation (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jul 2021 OP
Is it me, or are her pupils very dilated.... secondwind Jul 2021 #1
doubt it, she is just your garden variety racist. TNNurse Jul 2021 #11
Yeah I noticed the eyes too. Richard58 Jul 2021 #16
This is standard behavior in The Villages. PSPS Jul 2021 #2
Not surprising to me. wnylib Jul 2021 #14
Is there a Democratic aversion of the Villages? Sucha NastyWoman Jul 2021 #15
Yeah, I'll be packing up to move there... NOT!!! nt Phoenix61 Jul 2021 #3
America Is A Sad & Pathetic Country SoCalDavidS Jul 2021 #4
Do we even have to ask who she voted for thucythucy Jul 2021 #5
I take comfort in knowing that she has probably ingested about alphafemale Jul 2021 #6
oh the irony TallMike Jul 2021 #7
Many of the low-wage workers who serve The Villagers at their mcar Jul 2021 #8
"Those words in no way reflect my true self and I'm not a racist" in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... 11 Bravo Jul 2021 #9
Maybe, but I think she is proud wnylib Jul 2021 #19
Instead of barring her from *that* BK, I wish the judge had barred her from *any* BK in FL. RockRaven Jul 2021 #10
the cashier should sue her now. she's guilty and should be held fully accountable ZonkerHarris Jul 2021 #12
Pig Sucha NastyWoman Jul 2021 #13
What? She's the perfect Villages' resident....probably a hero there. sinkingfeeling Jul 2021 #17
That is one EXPENSIVE burger! n/t PatrickforB Jul 2021 #18
All this over the thickness of a slice of tomato... Mazeltov Cocktail Jul 2021 #20
First world problems MustLoveBeagles Jul 2021 #22
She sure wears her sense of entitlement on her face, doesn't she? tblue37 Jul 2021 #21
I'm sure her Mary & Martha Bible study class at First Baptist Church Ilsa Jul 2021 #23

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
1. Is it me, or are her pupils very dilated....
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 04:48 PM
Jul 2021

The hatred in that face can’t be washed away with soap and water.

wnylib

(21,449 posts)
14. Not surprising to me.
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 06:30 PM
Jul 2021

My ex's sister-in-law retired there. She is from an all white small town in central PA and has been a racist all her life. During the civil rights movement of the 1960s she researched emigrating to Australia because she heard that they did not accept immigrants of African descent. Changed her mind when she learned about Australia's aboriginal population.

She was a first grade teacher and did not like having Black kids in her classroom. Said she never encountered a Black person until she accepted a teaching job in the city. She was looking into a new profession where she thought she would be happier. I told her she should do it because her students would be happier, too.

SoCalDavidS

(9,998 posts)
4. America Is A Sad & Pathetic Country
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 04:55 PM
Jul 2021

NO FUCKING ACCOUNTABILITY.

Nothing will change in this fucking country. Same as it ever was.

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
6. I take comfort in knowing that she has probably ingested about
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 04:57 PM
Jul 2021

five gallons of various bodily fluids over the course of her lifetime.

You know this was not the first time she has treated people who handle her food that way.

mcar

(42,324 posts)
8. Many of the low-wage workers who serve The Villagers at their
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 05:24 PM
Jul 2021

stores, restaurants and fast-food places are Black students and adults from nearby Wildwood and other poor communities around the place - and there are loads of commercial establishments there.

Anytime I'm over there (I live about 30 miles SW), I wonder how these Black workers are being treated by these RWNJs.

Kudos to Ms. Brown for standing up for herself. That lunatic should be in a psych ward somewhere.

wnylib

(21,449 posts)
19. Maybe, but I think she is proud
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 06:42 PM
Jul 2021

of her racism, even though it cost her the most expensive burger that she never ate.

RockRaven

(14,966 posts)
10. Instead of barring her from *that* BK, I wish the judge had barred her from *any* BK in FL.
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 05:57 PM
Jul 2021

That would probably be a bigger punishment than the probation...

Mazeltov Cocktail

(569 posts)
20. All this over the thickness of a slice of tomato...
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 07:03 PM
Jul 2021

Jfc...I guess that's about the worst possible thing that could ever happen to an old white woman...

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