A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station employee who told her, “I don’t serve Black people.”
KGW. “This is not supposed to go down like that. It was a terrible, terrible confrontation between me and this guy.”
Powers was fired a month later after corporate records showed he had been written up several times for talking on his cellphone, Kafoury said. A statement from Jacksons Food Stores Thursday said the company has a zero-tolerance policy for discrimination of any kind and that it respectfully disagrees with the jury’s ruling because “our knowledge does not align with the verdict.”
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