California waitress who kicked out CEO during racist tirade receives over $78G in tips

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"To hear the emotion coming out of my voice, to see my mannerisms, it was unbelievable. It was just something that came over me and I just did what needed to be done," the waitress told KGO-TV on Wednesday. "I did what anybody else should or would do in that situation.

"I felt very protective of them. You don't come in here and say those kinds of things to people,” she continued. “Especially people feel so raw coming out of quarantine. Most of these people this is the first time that they've been out to dinner and then you have someone attacking them it was just no, no, I don't have time for this."

Explaining that she felt “almost maternal” towards that diners who were attacked, Cochran said that she followed her instincts to do “whatever I can to protect these people.”

“To have someone hate you just because of the way that you look, that's beyond me. I don't understand it,” she said.

In a message to the public, Cochran added: "If you see something do something. Stand up against racism and hatred in any form any time you can."