Walmart said they would ban a female
shopper who was caught on camera going on a tirade against black and
Hispanic shoppers in Arkansas on Monday.
A spokesperson for the retail chain told CNN they were still working to identify the woman who accosted Eva Hicks and called another shopper a ‘n*****’.
Hicks, a Mexican American
who has been living in the US for more than 30 years, said she politely
asked the white woman to step aside so she could grab her medicine in
the pharmacy aisle.
But the white woman did not take to her
request kindly, and instead told her to ‘go back to Mexico’ before
adding: ‘It’s not your country…we don’t want you here.’
Walmart
issued a statement saying it had ‘no tolerance for the language and
actions of this customer’, adding that they were proud the Centerton
store’s assistant manager stepped in and asked her to leave.
A spokesperson told CNN they were still
looking to identify the woman and said ‘once identified we will ask she
no longer shops at our stores’.
Hicks started filming the woman with her
mobile phone and shared the shocking footage to Facebook, writing: ‘I
never in my life thought this would happen to me. Yes me.
‘Just on a simple trip to the grocery store after a hard day of work. I love this country and I will stay in this country.’
In the three-minute clip, Hicks can be heard saying, ‘Listen, I said excuse me, don’t be rude.’
But the woman responded: ‘Go back, wherever you’re from. You’re the one that’s rude.
‘You’re in America, you are in America.’
A third woman, who is off-screen, is then heard saying: ‘Are you serious right now?’
The angry white shopper quickly switches
her attention to the black woman off-camera, saying: ‘That’s none of
your business right now, stay out of it.’
The
third woman replies: ‘I don’t need to stay out of it. You are yelling
loud enough for everyone to hear, stop being ignorant.’
That remark prompts the elderly woman to fire off an incredibly offensive attack.
The third woman replies: ‘I don’t need to
stay out of it. You are yelling loud enough for everyone to hear, stop
being ignorant.’
That remark prompts the elderly woman to fire off an incredibly offensive attack.
The elderly woman again cuts her off, saying: ‘It’s not your country, oh no, we don’t want you here.’
At that point, a store manager can be heard off camera saying: ‘That’s not true, we want you here.’
The manager then begins speaking to the white woman, telling her: ‘This is inappropriate.’
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