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lunasun

(21,646 posts)
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 05:24 PM Sep 2019

About the woman who was shopping at CVS then had a screaming racist rant directed at her by

by designer Heather Patton
....
“I would like to take a stand and share my story,” Ashford said in an interview with Heavy on September 26, two days after the incident. “I was in there shopping and she started screaming and yelling at me in the store. I ran to the front and begged them to call police, and said ‘she keeps calling me n*gger.'”

Ashford said she went to the Los Angeles Police Department and filed a report. An officer told her she would hear back in about five days. The LAPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Heavy. But the LAPD told the Los Angeles Times and KTLA-TV that a hate crime investigation is underway.

Heather Patton is a 49-year-old Los Angeles resident who works in the TV and movie industry as a costume designer, wardrobe assistant, costumer and in various other film crew roles.

Ashford coincidentally also works in the film industry in costume design. “I could end up on set with her,” she told Heavy. “I’m scared, this is my livelihood as well. I don’t know this woman from a can of paint, but I learned she is in the film and TV industry and that she has done this to others.It’s very scary
.....

Ashford asked the CVS store for help they would not call police . Other witnesses shopping said there was no interaction before Patton started screaming at her and the woman drove off erratically on the wrong side of the street !
She did this racist screaming at another store to an Asian man and her Italian neighbors have a lot to say.. Hateful lady and her husband seems just as bad .
https://heavy.com/news/2019/09/heather-patton/

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SWBTATTReg

(22,077 posts)
1. I'm disappointed in CVS that they didn't support this young (I'm assuming 'young') lady when...
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 05:31 PM
Sep 2019

she was attacked verbally in their store. Perhaps she has a legitimate complain to file in court, that they didn't provide a safe environment for her shopping experience? How disgusting and disturbing...

Leghorn21

(13,523 posts)
2. fwiw, here are what I say have to be their IMDb pages:
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 05:34 PM
Sep 2019

Ashford:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5454413/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1


Patton:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0666571/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Crews just don’t everrrrrr act like this

That Patton gal just chucked her career, most likely

So awful and traumatic for Ms. Ashford

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
7. Looks like Ashford has a far-more-impressive resume than Patton...
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 06:04 PM
Sep 2019

It’s probably not a good move to go Full KKK on someone above you in the Hollywood food chain.

MagickMuffin

(15,933 posts)
5. She needs to be blacklisted from Hollywood
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 05:39 PM
Sep 2019

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0666571/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

She is a threat to everyone in the industry. The FEDs should pay her a visit and confiscate any of her guns and ropes since she wants to lynch POC.

dalton99a

(81,404 posts)
11. She's blaming her racism on booze
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 07:54 PM
Sep 2019
https://www.tmz.com/2019/09/27/racist-rant-cvs-woman-eagle-rock-heather-lynn-patton-celebs-react/

Heather apologized for her racist rant in an Instagram story... calling her actions inhumane and disgusting. She says she's lost her job as a result."

She claims people have been harassing her online and even showing up on her doorstep.

Heather deleted all her IG posts and her bio now reads, "Please do not contact me. I was intoxicated and I sincerely apologize to everyone whom I disrespected and let down for my actions. Please forgive me."

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
14. Wait- upset people are harassing her and she did not ask for it??? How does she think Ashford felt?
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 10:42 PM
Sep 2019

And Patton did something drunk or not, to attract her harassers .
Ashford was just being black.

trackfan

(3,650 posts)
10. I grew up 2 blocks from there.
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 06:18 PM
Sep 2019

Now I live about a mile away. If I happen to go to a CVS, that's the one I go to. I hope I don't run into this nut.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
13. And blames alcohol! Alcoholism is a horrible disease.
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 10:33 PM
Sep 2019

But in my not limited experiences with drunks, what you see when they are drunk is the real person.

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