Mississippi campground manager fired after gun incident with African-American couple

[Demovictory9]

https://wreg.com/2019/05/28/mississippi-campground-manager-fired-after-gun-incident-with-african-american-couple/

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JACKSON, Miss. — A white manager of a Mississippi campground has been fired after video showed her holding a gun while telling an African American couple to leave because they did not have a reservation.

Kampgrounds of America spokesman Mike Gast said Tuesday that the unidentified manager had been fired from the KOA in Starkville.

A video posted Sunday to a Facebook page apparently belonging to Macon, Mississippi, resident Jessica Richardson shows a woman in a KOA shirt holding a gun as Richardson and her husband tell her they didn’t know they needed a reservation.

Richardson did not immediately respond to messages an Associated Press reporter left through Facebook and at the nail salon where she works.

Gast says KOA “does not condone the use of a firearm in any manner” on its properties or franchises.

[Aristus]

1. I would like to hope her firing would end her life of gainful employment.

But shit; this is Mississippi. She's probably got ten offers already...

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Kampground Kathy?

[Laffy Kat]

3. More like, K-K-K-Kampgground Kathy!

[Hekate]

5. Never knew KOA stood for Kampground. My mom told me once that when she was growing up...

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...in Colorado, businesses that unnecessarily used K for C were often using code for KKK, especially if the letter was repeated. Korner Koffee Kup. Kosy Kitchen Kafe.

She was born in 1924, so her range of experience growing up was 20s - 30s - 40s. She was sensitive to the influence of the KKK, because they despised Roman Catholics just as much as African Americans and Jews.

Good to know that in 2019 brandishing a gun at people teying to get a spot at a KOA is a fireable offence.

[SunSeeker]

4. Good to know brandishing a gun at a KOA is a fireable offense for a KOA manager.

I hope she would have been fired for her racism alone, even if she had not brandished a gun.

[uponit7771]

6. "Gun Incident" my ass ... she didn't need the gun. Gumpers are so threatened by humans living

[MineralMan]

7. Wonderful! She seems nice...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. What a clASS act

[IronLionZion]

9. Using K for C makes it sound a bit suspicious

maybe they were going for a more Germanic look but it could be KKK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satiric_misspelling