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A Buckys convenience store employee in Naperville, IL, has been fired, after he was caught on camera telling customers from Mexico to go back to their country. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, a member of the customer's (Buitron) family indicated the unnamed employee refused service because they are from Mexico. In the video, the employee at the counter tells the women Im an American and then asks, are you a citizen? After a woman responds asking what is your problem? the employee states in the video, they need to go back to their county.
In a second video, other people in line can be seen getting involved in the verbal altercation. One man in line can be heard saying to the customer you have no right and leave (U.S.)
Carolina Buitron told CBS 2, said she was cycling with six family members when a bike broke down near the store. While they waited for help, 15-year-old Indira Buitron went into the store to buy food. Carolina said the clerk told the teen that the food she was buying was expensive and questioned the legal status of her two cousins waiting outside. The teen said they were her cousins visiting from Mexico.
Buckys convenience store attorney Stephen Kalhorn said the employee no longer works for us.
Naperville police and city officials investigating this incident.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/18/buckys-employee-fired-racism-viral-video-go-back-to-their-country/
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)racists assholes existed all over the place during the Presidency of Barack Obama, but they certainly didn't feel emboldened to this degree.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)probably peeing himself.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)Racists will hire him.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Where do these people come from? I mean the racists. Do they realize people from other countries are allowed in this country, and spend money in stores?
I think retail stores and restaurants are going to have to start nasty-checks like they do drug checks. They need to weed out the candidates who want to alienate the customers in service to Trump.
sdfernando
(4,937 posts)Ive been to Naperville several times and, being brown-skinned myself, I have not always felt comfortable there.
struggle4progress
(118,328 posts)Ho-Chunk, Illinois, Miami, or Shawnee!"
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)jcgoldie
(11,638 posts)What a fucking clown.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Scary.
rurallib
(62,441 posts)tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)trev
(1,480 posts)This makes two such threads I've read here this morning on the subject (Valvoline was the other).
If we can threaten the haters' means of living, we might scare them into being less vocal.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,876 posts)Super Christian who would tell Jesus to go back to his country.