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Showing Original Post only (View all)McDonald's Manager Kicks Black Teens Out After Racist Allegedly Threatens Them With a Gun [View all]
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McDonald's Manager Kicks Black Teens Out After Racist Allegedly Threatens Them With a Gun
"I don't give a f**k, get out of my store now," the manager told the teens.
What started out as an ordinary trip to a Minnesota McDonald's ended up with a racist pulling a gun on a group of Somali-American teens and a manager yelling for the the group to get out, despite their lives being at risk.
In videos taken by one of the teenagers and posted to Twitter, a group of Somali-American teenagers can be seen confronting the man, who is leaving the store after yelling a racial slur at one of the kids. The man brandished his pistol threatening the teenagers. The group, immediately, turns to run away from the man and one of the teenager yells, "he has a gun." The gun cannot be seen in the video.
What started out as an ordinary trip to a Minnesota McDonald's ended up with a racist pulling a gun on a group of Somali-American teens and a manager yelling for the the group to get out, despite their lives being at risk.
In videos taken by one of the teenagers and posted to Twitter, a group of Somali-American teenagers can be seen confronting the man, who is leaving the store after yelling a racial slur at one of the kids. The man brandished his pistol threatening the teenagers. The group, immediately, turns to run away from the man and one of the teenager yells, "he has a gun." The gun cannot be seen in the video.
It took an older white gentleman who was a customer at the restaurant to explain to the "manager" that putting the the group out would be putting directly in harm's way. He then instructed her to call the police which is what should have been done on the first place.
"Don't send them off there when a dude just pulled a f**king gun on them," he says. "You've got to call the f**king cops is what you've got to do."
https://www.diversityinc.com/Organizational-Misbehavior/minnesota-mcdonalds-black-teens?utm_source=WhatCounts&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=wc-ip+1121
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Demovictory9
Nov 2018
OP
From a liability viewpoint, she put the franchise owner and their insurance company at risk of huge
salin
Nov 2018
#16
Good God! How many of these videos of store managers failing AAs are we going to see?
brush
Nov 2018
#9
As I said, every one of these store managers in these videos side against black people.
brush
Nov 2018
#12
Weak. She obviously was poorly trained. And I agree, she reacted to her upbringing...
brush
Nov 2018
#35
Bullshit. by the video, at least, he wanted the black kids out. NOT the white guy.
pangaia
Nov 2018
#32
Because you're so cruel to the Somalis that were harassed and threatened at that McDs
jpak
Nov 2018
#50
What a shame, the ONLY one. I wish I had gotten to know him, the only one ...
marble falls
Nov 2018
#68
Thanks, same to you! My problem has been all the stupid wypipo I've run into, including members ...
marble falls
Nov 2018
#82
What about common sense? - The manager sounds like a psychopath in the video.
womanofthehills
Nov 2018
#51
In this day and age it is inexcusable that store owners (and I doubt that she owned that store)
Haggis for Breakfast
Nov 2018
#53