A Gas Station Clerk Who Told Latina Women “They Need To Go Back To Their Country” Has Been Fired (Buzzfeed, more at the link, with video from Facebook):
An Illinois gas station clerk who threatened a group of Latina customers that “ICE will come,” was fired two days after video of the altercation went viral, the store’s owner said Thursday.
In the video posted on Facebook, a clerk standing behind the payment counter is heard apparently complaining to two women about what he suspected were undocumented people.
The video exchange occurred two days after Trump sent out his Tweet at the four female Democratic congresswomen he’s been attacking.
“Let me be abundantly clear: hate has no home here in Naperville,” Mayor Steve Chirico said in a statement posted on Facebook Wednesday. “Quite frankly, this type of behavior has no place in society at large.”
Naperville Police told BuzzFeed News the department was also aware of the video and was looking into the incident. The police department has been in contact with the city attorney, Commander Mike Son said, but no charges had been filed.
The clerk in the video was identified as Joseph Phillip Daniel, a Trump supporter who describes himself on social media as a “prophet,” and has repeatedly posted videos of himself reciting prayers in the middle of natural landscapes.
When they left the store, he told them “God bless you.”
No mainline Protestant church nor the Catholic Church has yet to condemn Trump’s repeated racist remarks, nor even a more milquetoast general condemnation of such statements. None. Individuals have, but not their officials or their churches.