A Portland woman won $1 million in damages this week after a jury found she was racially discriminated against by a gas station attendant who told her “I don’t serve Black people.”
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The attendant, 23-year-old Nigel Powers, responded: “I’ll get to you when I feel like it” after Wakefield asked for service, according to the lawsuit. As she was leaving, Wakefield asked Powers why he had dismissed her. Powers replied that it was because she was Black, then laughed in her face, according to the suit.“It was humiliating. I felt like a slave without chains,” Wakefield said in an interview after Monday’s verdict. “The bottom line is I can’t take my skin off and lay it down on the couch. I’m going to be who I am.”Court records obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive show that Wakefield called a corporate hotline that day.
“After carefully reviewing all facts and evidence, including video surveillance, we chose to take this matter to trial because we were comfortable with our knowledge of the facts of the case,” Jackson said. “As such, we respectfully disagree with the jury’s ruling because our knowledge does not align with the verdict.”
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