Oregon woman awarded $1m over racist discrimination at gas station
Attendant repeatedly dismissed Rose Wakefield as she attempted to get his service and told her, ‘I don’t serve Black people’
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Attendant repeatedly dismissed Rose Wakefield as she attempted to get his service and told her, ‘I don’t serve Black people’
A jury awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station worker who told her, "I don’t serve Black people."
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station employee who
Rose Wakefield, 63, called the incident "a terrible, terrible confrontation between me and this guy.”
An Oregon woman successfully sued a local gas station after she was denied service. Rose Wakefield was awarded $1 million on Monday, Jan. 23, by a