Subway Manager Fired After Racial Slur

BIRMINGHAM, AL - A manager at a Birmingham Subway restaurant was fired this week after a video was posted online of her uttering racial slurs at a fellow employee's family. The incident happened at the Subway on Valley Avenue.

A report by Alabama Media Group said customer Antuan Pace uploaded the video to his Facebook page about 10 p.m. Wednesday and 11 hours later the video already had been viewed about 165,000 times.

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The video shows the manager repeatedly screaming at Pace and others, telling them to get out of her store."I'm fixin to slap the (expletive) phone out of your hand," she says. The video then goes dark though the confrontation can still be heard. She repeatedly asks the family members to leave the store, and Pace tells her that she was the one who invited them in.

She and a man in the video repeatedly tell Pace to leave and, at some point, they do. As they were leaving, she said, "Get out of my (expletive) store" and then called him a racial slur.

Pace reported the incident to Birmingham activist Carlos Chaverst Jr. "It has been brought to our attention of a video at the Subway on Valley Avenue in Birmingham and the alleged misconduct and racist behavior that has been exhibited,'' Chaverst said in an earlier press release. "As a community we are planning to gather outside the Subway at 10 a.m. to protest peacefully the injustices we saw via video."

"We are very upset that this happened and it does not reflect our core value to respect every individual," said a Subway spokesperson in a statement. "We welcome all guests to our restaurant and given the unacceptable behavior of the manager, she no longer works for us. We take this very seriously and have suspended operations until the staff has completed retraining in proper guest interaction."

Then incident comes on the heels of similar incidents wherein black customers have been harassed and asked to leave places of business, some involving calls to law enforcement.

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