Illinois gas station worker suspended after telling Latino customers 'ICE will come'

[Eugene]

Source: NBC News

Illinois gas station worker suspended after telling Latino customers 'ICE will come'

In an exchange caught on video and posted to social media, the attendant also says Latinos "need to go back to their country."

July 17, 2019, 9:19 PM EDT / Updated July 17, 2019, 11:42 PM EDT
By Alex Johnson

A gasoline station attendant was suspended from his job Wednesday after a video was shared on social media appearing to show him telling Latino customers that "ICE will come" in Naperville, Illinois.

In the video posted to Facebook on Tuesday, the attendant at a Bucky's Express shop in Naperville gets into an argument with two women, telling them "I'm an American" and asking, "Are you a citizen?"

One of the women responds "yes" and repeatedly asks, "What is your problem?" The attendant responds: "Don't you know the rules? They need to go back to their country. It's illegal."

When one of the women says, "I hate you," he replies, "ICE will come," apparently a reference to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/illinois-gas-station-worker-suspended-after-telling-latino-customers-ice-n1031071

[Raster]

1. "I don't necessarily agree with that."

Yes, you do, racist asshole. Own it.

[ProudLib72]

3. He's going to show his support for the Rump, give him a little more time

Wish the people on the other side had called him out on his racism. We need to start calling them out!

[dalton99a]

2. Suspended? Fire his ass.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Next week he will pop up in another

store.

[ret5hd]

5. "Suspended". Not fired...but "suspended".

Are they waiting for some evidence to surface that might somehow justify his words?
OR
Are they waiting for all this hoopla to blow over so he can continue in his position?

Hmmm...I wonder...I wonder.

[PA Democrat]

8. Then people should "suspend" buying gas there until the racist is FIRED.

[dalton99a]

16. +1

[gratuitous]

6. Free advice to bigots and dumbasses

If you're confronting someone and someone is holding up their phone, THEY'RE RECORDING YOU. If the person recording you came in with the person you're confronting or appears sympathetic to that person, YOU WON'T COME OFF VERY WELL when the recording gets posted on line.

I know this advice will fall on deaf ears and fail to penetrate thick skulls, but I feel better that as least I warned these idiots.

[Initech]

7. They probably didn't read past the word "illegal" did they?

[MineralMan]

9. To that worker: Come Mierda!

[ExciteBike66]

10. Obviously meant to say "Winter is Coming" but English is not his first language? nt

[Initech]

11. Chump's people at work.

Fuck this administration!

[Scurrilous]

12. ...

[bdamomma]

13. you know

all this videotaping of this stuff is evidence, and it could or will be used against those who bully.

All they have is fear, and hate.

[SWBTATTReg]

14. Fire him...no debate/no questions/nothing...it is clearly documented in the video of his ...

disrespect and ignorant actions unbecoming someone who works with the public.

[struggle4progress]

15. "Huff enuff octane & yu kin bee smart liek mee!"