New York store employee arrested and fired for allegedly spewing hate speech towards a Jewish co-worker.
A former employee of Kingston, New York, a family-owned health food store was arrested on Friday for repeatedly harassing aco-worker, including an incident where he allegedly shut off the lights and told her "You're in the gas chamber."
"Last week, on March 11, I was in the cooler getting items to stock on the floor. One of my colleagues, Will Sullivan, was standing outside the cooler. He said to me: 'now we’re going to put you in the gas chamber,' and turned off the light," Shabanowitz wrote in a statement issued on Friday. "I was horrified. When he saw my look of shock, he said: 'yeah, you f—ing Jew.
Shabanowitz said her store manager turned on her and allegedly admitted to dismissing Sullivan's statements as "a joke" and was told to "either quit your job or do the register."
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