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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe couple with the swastika masks at a MN Walmart store were told never to return
Just before noon Saturday, police officers in Marshall, Minn., were called to the towns Walmart on a report that two shoppers were wearing masks emblazoned with swastikas.
Another shopper, Raphaela Mueller, the vicar of a southwest Minnesota parish, filmed the swastika-wearing man and woman as they were confronted by others in the store. Then she posted the video on Facebook, where it went viral.
If you vote for Biden, youre going to be living in Nazi Germany, the woman with the swastika mask told Mueller, as her companion bagged up toilet paper and an enormous canister of cheeseballs. The two were apparently using the masks to protest Minnesotas mask mandate, which took effect Saturday.
Per the stores request, law enforcement served trespass notices to the 59-year-old man and 64-year-old woman, warning them that if they will face arrest should they return. The two departed without incident and charges were not pursued.
https://www.startribune.com/couple-flaunts-swastika-facemasks-at-marshall-walmart/571909142/
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)They should have refused service to begin with.
MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,382 posts)Stores are private property and they can refuse entry to offensive people.
Hekate
(90,704 posts)...assaulted by hostile customers showing how free their freedumb is.
So no, Walmart greeters typically well over 60 and salesclerks who desperately need the paycheck should not be expected to risk their lives just because Trump has juiced up his base on stochastic terrorism.
As the saying goes, its above their paygrade.
Laffy Kat
(16,382 posts)It does seem like Walmart could afford a guard, though. I only go to WM perhaps once a year, so I don't know if they have guards or not, but seems like they should. At the clinic where I work, we've hired an extra door guard during peak hours just to attend the entrance. If a patient refuses a mask or temperature check, out they go. If they give the guard any flack, the police are instantly summoned.
Nature Man
(869 posts)to shoot black people who don't show receipts on the way out.
Laffy Kat
(16,382 posts)DVRacer
(707 posts)trueblue2007
(17,220 posts)JI7
(89,250 posts)don't make the rules .
The corporate higher ups made the decision to not allow them so next time the employees could refuse them.
jpak
(41,758 posts)To be kicked out of.
PTWB
(4,131 posts)These folks will have to find a different chain entirely.
jpak
(41,758 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Wow. Thats a difficult thing to do.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)babylonsister
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brush
(53,782 posts)storm troopers to Portland and Seattle and she's ignorantly saying Biden would bring fascism.
Did these two nuts miss all of the history of WWll?
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)They probably read it on Facebook, the most important and truthful source for news on the planet.
These people would never think of researching anything on their own. They love being told what to do, and what to think, which makes them perfect dupes for actual fascists. Morons, republicans just love their morons.
JudyM
(29,250 posts)dweller
(23,634 posts)✌🏼
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,707 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Hekate
(90,704 posts)Thats a whole lotta hate going on.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Beartracks
(12,814 posts)... that level of ignorance is why they're able to be in Trump's "base."
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TeamPooka
(24,227 posts)"You say it will be like Nazi Germany and you seem to be fans of that so can we count on your vote for Biden in November?"
mn9driver
(4,425 posts)Its a 40 mile drive to the next Walmart.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)If you've been banned from one Walmart, you've been banned from every Walmart.
Cha
(297,253 posts)was worth not being able to go into Walmart and get their Cheeseballs.
AllaN01Bear
(18,240 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,074 posts)As a private enterprise, they are free to serve (or not serve) anyone as long as they don't discrminate against a protected class. (And Nazis are not a protected class.) I'm glad they decided the couple was not welcome there.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,707 posts)in using the Nazi flag to protest against alleged government overreach.
lame54
(35,292 posts)Negated by wearing swastikas which is not cool anywhere
Cha
(297,253 posts)Wonder if their little brainwashed Stunt was worth it.. not being able to go to Walmart and get Cheesedballs anymore?
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ALBliberal
(2,342 posts)Its not easy for these clerks really on the front line as well as fellow shoppers to bring attention to these disrupters. I refuse to believe that these efforts are in vain. Together we make a difference.
Beartracks
(12,814 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)It goes all around and covers his mouth and nose. And looks like he is planning to make more, considering he is buying a bunch of cheesballs
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)onethatcares
(16,168 posts)that verbally confronted the stupid. Whoever he is, I salute him..
"We literally had a war about this"... Thank you Sir.
JudyM
(29,250 posts)speaks volumes.