Jury Awards $1M To Oregon Woman Who Tried To Buy Gas But Was Told: ‘I Don’t Serve Black People’

Jury Awards $1M To Oregon Woman Who Tried To Buy Gas But Was Told: ‘I Don’t Serve Black People’

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Twitter.com By Melissa Noel ·Updated January 27, 2023

A jury awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after it found that a gas station employee had discriminated against her by telling her, “I don’t serve Black people,” the Associated Press reports.

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