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Ann Arbor family suing Erie Orchard and Cider Mill owner after racist rant against Muslims


He tells CBS News Detroit that he and his family felt they were not welcomed, and well, after nearly spending $70, that became more clear when the girls wanted to go back out to pick some peaches.

But after Mahmoud says he received permission and was told not to worry about the price, "He said don't worry about the price. They were all rotten peaches."

Mahmoud was faced with an unexpected problem with owner Steve Elzinga at his car door.

"He opened my door. I found that kind of odd. He was like, 'Okay, where's the bag?' I'm like right there, passenger side floor. He takes the bags and then goes to the back seat and goes through my youngest daughter's bag while my daughter was in the back seat." Mahmoud says.


"He went through your diaper bag?" he was asked. "Yeah, in the car, with her in the car. I felt violated right there," Mahmoud said.

But with all the drama, Mahmoud stayed calm and instead offered to pay for the "rotten peaches" until he saw the bill was $58 bucks.

"I was not going to buy a bag of rotten peaches for $58," he said.

But it's what Elzinga said next that turned a peach problem, for Mahmoud, into a racist one.

"Every Muslim that comes here every week steals from me," Elzinga said in a video recorded from Mahmoud's phone. "Every Muslim that comes here steals from you?!" Mahmoud said while trying to contain his emotion.

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/muslim-family-suing-erie-orchard-owner-after-racist-rant/