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Chipotle Reconsiders Firing Manager Who Refused To Serve Black ‘Dine And Dashers’
Chipotle announced Sat- urday that it terminated one of its managers who was recorded asking a group of Black male customers to pay before being served.
The now viral video was posted to Twitter on Thurs- day by a user named Masud Ali, who captioned it “can a group of young well estab- lished African American get a bite to eat after a long work- out session?”
The manager of the St. Paul restaurant tells the cus- tomers “you gotta pay be- cause you never have money when you come in here.”
An employee adds, “We’re not gonna make food unless you guys actually have
The manager at Chipotle who was caught on video being racially insensitive.
money.”
Chipotle replied to the
criticism online over how the manager handled the situa- tion by stating that “what happened here is not how our employees should treat our
customers.” They also added that the manager has since been terminated and staff has undergone re-training to pre- vent this sort of racial insen- sitivity incident from happening again.
6-Year-Old Brain Damaged And Unable To Walk After Electrocution At MGM Resort
The family of a girl who was electrocuted while touching an outdoor handrail at MGM Na- tional Harbor is suing the re- sort for “major” electrical code violations.
Back in June, Zynae Green was at an outdoor fountain with her family when she reached out and touched the illuminated light rail. Im- mediately after she touched the rail, she was shocked and went into cardiac arrest. She was then rushed to a hospital, where she spent the next two months for treatment.
Green is "permanently and totally disabled," the lawsuit says and will require care for the rest of her life.
The 6-year-old suffered an anoxic brain damage caused by a lack of oxygen, the family’s lawyer, Benedict Morelli, told The New York Post. Right now, Green remains in a semi- vegetative state, breathing on her own but only able to follow movement in the room with her eyes. She is unable to move or walk.
Her 5-year-old brother and 16-year-old sister also were shocked and spent days in the hospital.
The lawsuit names as defen- dants MGM National Harbor; National Harbor Grand; Whit- ing-Turner Contracting Com- pany, which was hired by MGM as the general contractor for the hotel and casino; and Rosendin Electric, Inc., which was hired by Whiting-Turner as the electrical contractor, re- ported NBC Washington.
ZYNAE GREEN
According to the lawsuit, contractors and inspectors were urged to finish their work quickly at the expense of safety. An investigation into the inci- dent found important corners were cut during construction. Haitham Hijazi, director of the Prince George's Depart- ment of Inspections, said poor electrical work and bad inspec- tion practices were to blame.
"It's shoddy work done by that contractor and a failure by the third-party inspector," Hi- jazi said.
Green's small body was hit with 120 volts of electricity when she grabbed one charged handrail and put her feet on another on June 26.
According to the lawsuit, the 120 volts was 10 times more than necessary to power the handrail lighting. Surveil- lance video shows others ap- pearing to be jolted when touching the handrail in the days before Green was shocked.
13-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot In Her Bedroom Wrote Award Winning Essay On Gun Violence
A young girl was killed in Milwaukee after a stray bullet hit her in her bedroom.
13-year-old Sandra Parks died on November 15. According to Pix 11, she wrote an award-winning essay about gun violence in her hometown just two years
ago.
“We shall overcome has
been lost in lies of who we are. Who we have become,” she wrote in that essay, in part. “We need to rewrite our story so that faith and hope for a better tomorrow is not only within us. But we believe it and we put it into action.”
At the time of the essay, Parks was just 11 and the main focus of it was about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It took third place in her school district and called for more empathy and less negativity. It also stressed the importance of education and using it to make the world a better
place.
On Friday night, family
and friends came together to remember bright young girl. Bernice Parks, her mother, told the news station just how special her daughter was.
“My baby was not violent. My baby did not like vio- lence,” she said. “She was a star that was trying to get out but didn’t know how. Don’t never forget my baby.” Ber- nice set up a GoFundMe to
help raise money for a me- morial service for her daugh- ter.
Two suspects have been captured and identified. 26- year-old Isaac Barnes and 27-year-old Untrell Oden are facing homicide charges in the shooting death of Parks.
Our thoughts are with Sandra Parks’ family and friends during this difficult time.
Oprah Winfrey's Mom Vernita Lee Dies On Thanksgiving At Age 83
Oprah Winfrey‘s mother Vernita Lee died in her home in Milwaukee, Wiscon- sin on Thanksgiving, the fam- ily told PEOPLE in a statement. She was 83.
Lee was born on May 2, 1935 and worked as a house- keeper throughout her life. She is survived by Winfrey and daughter Patricia Amanda Faye Lee, who she placed for adoption at birth and reconnected with later in life. Lee also had two other children — son Jeffrey Lee, who died in 1989 and daugh- ter Patricia Lee Lloyd, who died in 2003.
A spokesperson for Win- frey says her mother has al- ready been laid to rest at a private funeral.
In an interview with Mil- waukee local station TMJ4,
Oprah Winfrey and her mom, Vernita Lee.
Lee opened up about how she got through the deaths of two of her children.
“I’m a Christian lady, and if you’re a Christian person, it helps you to deal with situa- tions like that,” she said.
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