Attendant repeatedly dismissed Rose Wakefield as she attempted to get his service and told her, ‘I don’t serve Black people’
An attendant at the Jacksons gas station in Washington county, Oregon, kept passing over Rose Wakefield to serve other customers.An attendant at the Jacksons gas station in Washington county, Oregon, kept passing over Rose Wakefield to serve other customers.woman has been awarded $1m by a jury after facing racist discrimination at a gas station where the attendant told her: “I don’t serve Black people.
In March 2020, Nigel Powers, an attendant at the Jacksons gas station in Washington county, Oregon, kept passing over Wakefield to serve other customers, even those who had arrived after her.
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