Man asked to wear face mask properly inside grocery store hurls homophobic slur at shopper
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/man-asked-wear-face-mask-properly-inside-grocery-store-hurls-homophobic-slur-shopper/2R7FW5Y3EVDCFMKV4I6HSQI7JE/
EDMONDS, Wash. — Police said they were called to an Edmonds Way QFC for a “disturbance” Saturday morning involving a man who called another shopper a homophobic slur several times after being told he wasn’t wearing his face mask properly inside the store.
“I just asked him really politely can he please flip his mask up over his face and the guy called me four letter words,” said Scott Haddock, a gay civil rights lawyer and professor at Edmonds College. “Called me a word designed to hurt LGBTQ people, which I am one.”
“That’s when the store manager said that’s just a word. I said, ‘It’s not just a word, it’s really hurtful hate speech. I didn’t appreciate it,’” said Haddock. “I didn’t agree with the manager and said I’ve been shopping here a really long time and I’ve never been treated like that before – you let the guy check out. And that’s when he said, ‘I’m going to call the police,’ and I assumed he was calling the police on that guy. He called the police on me.”
>I am imagining an anon was shopping and forgot they weren't posting on the board and said 'shut the fuck up you fucking faggot'
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