An Oregon jury awarded a 63-year-old Black woman $1 million in damages in a civil case after a gas attendant at a full-service gas station told her, “I don’t serve Black people.”
, Kafoury said that when they walked towards her car, Powers approached the store clerk, Wakefield and the vehicle.
As Wakefield was leaving the gas station, she asked Powers, “Why did you treat me this way?” Powers then told her, “I don’t serve Black people” and laughed in her face, according to court documents.Gas attendants are required by law to pump fuel for motorists at gas stations in Oregon’s larger population centers. New Jersey and Oregon are the only states that place restrictions on self-service gasoline.
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