Two Black truckers allege they were discriminated against at a South Dakota Denny’s during a rest stop. They claim not only did the waitress not serve them, but she called the police and had them removed.
A video of the incident captured by one of the men showed the white woman had another waitress ask the men to leave. In their opinion, the footage showed how the woman sought to criminalize them based on their race.
“What did we do?” asked one of the truckers.
“I have no idea. I’m not in the situation, but she said, like, to make it more calm,” the server says nervously. “She said, like, you guys can kindly leave because you do have a lot of people around, or the police will be on the way … ‘cause they are.”
“But why do we have to leave?” the trucker asks. “We just came to order food.”
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“I don’t know,” the server says.
“That’s not right,” he replies.
They refused to leave at first, saying they didn’t want to go before officers arrived because there would be only one account of the incident given to law enforcement.
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Damon Whitfield and Hector Madera claimed that there was one other Black in the restaurant at the time who was also ignored by the same waitress.
“We poured into a pilot truck stop in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to shower up and get something to eat. We were the only Black people in there. Thirty minutes goes by. Fifteen minutes etcetera. So, my partner said politely, ‘Excuse me, we are ready to order,’” Whitfield told the host of “Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey.”
According to the men, an employee said the waitress is the wife of Mike Fletcher, the district manager of the rest stop where the Denny’s is located. Fletcher heard about the incident and offered the…
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