The employee answers: "They're not welcome in here."
Employee Fired for Telling Black Girls 'They're Not Welcome' in Jersey Shore Gift Shop: Video
An employee at the Jenkinson's Aquarium gift shop on the Jersey Shore, who told a group of young Black girls to leave, is now out of a job.
Jenkinson's Boardwalk management said in a press release issued on Tuesday, "as a result of this investigation, the gift shop employee has been terminated effective immediately."
Attiyya Barrett heads a program called Princess to Queenz, which offers summer camps and tutoring programs for children. She posted a video of the incident on her Facebook page on Friday, and it's since gone viral.
"She decides she doesn't want the children to shop at her store because she said they have to be with a chaperone," Barrett says in the video. "They go get the chaperone, and then she [tells] all of our girls to leave the store because she doesn't want them there."
Barrett then asks the employee, "What's your reason, why?"
"Because they didn't have a chaperone," the woman, whose name has not been released, responds.
"And when they got the chaperone, what was your reason?" Barrett asks.
"I didn't think she was a chaperone," the woman responded.
"But what did you just say?" Barrett asks.
The employee answers: "They're not welcome in here."
"Meanwhile, there were other white girls unattended and playing with items, and they were not asked to leave," Barrett told ABC News.
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