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A Virginia food bank has fired a white employee who was captured on video calling a Black neighbor the n-word and telling her that she was "not the right color" last week.
Chesterfield Food Bank said that the encounter was not related to the employee's work but fired her for conduct that went "directly against our values and beliefs" on Friday. Videos posted to Facebook by Quetta Good last week documented her encounter with the worker, who can be seen wearing a name tag reading "Hilary" in one image. The worker can be heard calling Good the n-word and telling her that she is "not the right color, honey" in the videos, according to The New York Daily News.
"We want to thank everyone for reaching out to us in regards to the video and story that was posted this morning regarding a confrontation between an individual and one of our employees in their neighborhood ," Chesterfield Food Bank CEO Kim Hill said in a statement. "We, here at the CFB, are broken-hearted to view this conduct as it goes directly against our values and beliefs. We are honored to serve everyone in need with dignity & integrity."
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"In response to this situation, we have terminated this employee," Hill added. "We remain committed to creating and providing a positive, uplifting, and encouraging environment for our staff, volunteers, and clients."
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The food bank's former employee can be seen standing in front of Good's house and holding a cell phone to her ear in the videos. Good said that her neighbor was using the phone to call the police. Other posts by Good describe a series of alleged confrontations with her neighbor, which she said began with the police being called to search Good's house for drugs.
Good said that her neighbor called police to search her house. She told police "I couldn't afford my house, I never leave the house so I had to sell drugs because I'm black and had a Porsche," Good added. The house was later searched by police in response to the call but no drugs were found.
The recent incident apparently started after a dispute between the children of the two women. Police responded to the incident. Good said that the responding officer would only say that her neighbor "wasn't on my property," despite watching all of the videos, at least one of which appeared to show the woman on Good's property.
After posting the videos, Good's Facebook account was suspended for three days, with the company telling the woman who was called the racial slur that she "didn't follow our Community Standards on hate speech."
Newsweek reached out to Facebook for comment.
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