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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts)
Wed Nov 15, 2023, 02:52 PM Nov 2023

Grocery store employee's KKK attire shocks Gold Bar

GOLD BAR — Gold Bar’s mayor criticized a local grocery store Tuesday, after patrons raised concerns about an armed employee wearing a Ku Klux Klan shirt.

Photos of the Gold Bar Family Grocer employee bagging groceries — armed with a holstered gun and wearing KKK insignia — went viral on Facebook among local residents and business owners.

Meanwhile, store ownership had not confirmed if the employee had been fired.

“I believe the store owners should answer to how this was allowed to happen. No one should feel intimidated going to the local grocery store,” Mayor Steven Yarbrough wrote in an email Tuesday to The Daily Herald. “This is not representative of our city, I am thankful to the citizens who brought this to the community’s attention.”

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/grocery-store-employees-kkk-attire-shocks-gold-bar/

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Grocery store employee's KKK attire shocks Gold Bar (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2023 OP
I can't believe shoppers did not just turn and leave (run). hlthe2b Nov 2023 #1
"Hey boy...BOY! Fetch those groceries into... ret5hd Nov 2023 #2
Shame on the store for not being more responsive to people's concerns ificandream Nov 2023 #3
no shirt no shoes no service but kkk shit and guns OK! samnsara Nov 2023 #4

hlthe2b

(102,293 posts)
1. I can't believe shoppers did not just turn and leave (run).
Wed Nov 15, 2023, 02:57 PM
Nov 2023

I've shopped in stores with a fully armed off-duty police officer, which I can accept, albeit not without some minimal discomfort, but some jerk-off dressed in Klan gear and armed? Hell no.

ret5hd

(20,499 posts)
2. "Hey boy...BOY! Fetch those groceries into...
Wed Nov 15, 2023, 02:59 PM
Nov 2023

those bags! And then roll ‘em out to my car! And don’t give me any lip about it either!”

(my natural reaction if I were to see such a thing)

ificandream

(9,373 posts)
3. Shame on the store for not being more responsive to people's concerns
Wed Nov 15, 2023, 06:44 PM
Nov 2023

The jerk should have been fired on the spot when he came in dressed like that. To let him punch in is irresponsible. (I worked in a grocery store for several months.)

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