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kpete

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Sat Nov 26, 2016, 11:07 AM Nov 2016

This is how we ALL have to react. [View all]

People in an Albuquerque grocery store have the right response to hate.

It was an unpleasant experience for Smith’s shoppers in Albuquerque Wednesday morning, particularly for a woman wearing a hijab, when another customer accosted her.

Barney Lopez was in the store at Coal and Yale when it happened around 9:30 a.m. He remembers walking in and passing the woman with the head scarf as she was checking out.

“I went down the aisle to go get sodas and then all of a sudden I hear somebody starting to yell at her,” he recalls, “And they’re saying things like ‘Get out of our country, you don’t belong here, you’re a terrorist!’”

At that point, Lopez says, practically everyone in the store stopped what they were doing and ran to the defense of the woman in hijab.

Lopez snapped a picture, albeit a bit shaky, of the person screaming at the woman in the hijab. The lady is wearing a hat and sunglasses. A Smith’s employee appears to stand in the way to keep her back.

“There was even another woman that like went over to the woman in the hijab and put her arm around her and gave her hug and held her while the Smith’s employees came,” he says.

Employees shuffled the shouting lady out of the store, but Lopez says the screaming woman waited in the parking lot for the woman in the hijab to come out.

“So all the Smith’s employees gathered around this woman and escorted her to her car and helped her load her groceries,” he recalled


http://krqe.com/2016/11/24/picture-captures-person-accosting-woman-wearing-hijab-at-smiths/?cid=facebook_KRQE_News_13
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That's beautiful... Satch59 Nov 2016 #1
Who was the real terrorist in this episode? Zambero Nov 2016 #2
Exactly. volstork Nov 2016 #5
Yes. This is what we all must do when such things happen. MineralMan Nov 2016 #3
100 narnian60 Nov 2016 #4
That's good treestar Nov 2016 #6
I am out in public 2naSalit Nov 2016 #7
A simple smile awoke_in_2003 Nov 2016 #13
good Angry Dragon Nov 2016 #8
Last summer sagetea Nov 2016 #9
And Smiths needs to ban the screaming woman. Schema Thing Nov 2016 #10
more proof that the trumpets are the outliers....america is better than them spanone Nov 2016 #11
it's weird isn't it. barbtries Nov 2016 #12
KnR Hekate Nov 2016 #14
As a minority Coolest Ranger Nov 2016 #15
I hope that I would react as these people did. TNNurse Nov 2016 #16
maybe the asshole heard this on tues morning certainot Nov 2016 #17
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