Rose Wakefield, 63, called the incident 'a terrible, terrible confrontation between me and this guy.”
AP— A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station employee who told her, “I don’t serve Black people.”
When she tried to ask for assistance he said, “I’ll get to you when I feel like it,” according to Kafoury.for motorists at gas stations in Oregon’s larger population centers including Portland and the nearby suburb of Beaverton. During the following week, Wakefield complained twice to managers, but her phone calls were largely disregarded, Kafoury said.
“Ms. Wakefield originally was just going to let this go,” Kafoury said. “She told her friends that it was too disturbing, and she didn’t want to deal with it. And then she thought about it and said, ‘It’s too wrong. I have to do something about it.’ ”
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