![]() "I don’t know them personally and they also offended me," she said. Weatherspoon-McKinney, who had been working at the business only a few weeks before the incident, described the footage as a brief glimpse of a situation that escalated. Koudier, she claims, used offensive language toward her as well as "pointing fingers and going off" when entering. The 29-year-old contends the heated exchange erupted after the couple began acting rudely. Telisha Weatherspoon-McKinney told The Detroit News on Friday that she was the worker recorded in the video, adding she was "wrong for saying that" but had been upset. "The team member involved in this incident has been terminated by the franchise as Tim Hortons does not tolerate any type of harassment in the workplace." "We always want team members and guests to have a positive, welcoming and rewarding experience at our restaurants," the statement reads. Reached late Friday, company representatives said in an email to The Detroit News that the worker has since been let go. ![]() More: Using Trump’s ‘go back’ comment at work might be illegalĪ store manager declined comment Friday and told a reporter to go to the company website to get a corporate phone number. I've never been treated like that in my life." "I don't expect any minority to treat another minority (that way) so it hurts a little more," Koudier said during a news conference at the CAIR Michigan office in Farmington Hills. ![]() Koudier said it was even more "shocking" that the words came from the mouth of another minority. Koudier said the female employee told her during the tirade captured on cellphone video: "This isn't your country. Kouider, a native of Lansing, said the clerk for the drive-through got their coffee order wrong and when she and her husband went inside to get a replacement order, an African-American clerk became belligerent with them and hurled "hostile" insults at them, eventually telling them to "go back to your country" and cursing at Kouider. Watch Video: Tim Hortons employee: 'Go back to your country'Īmeur Dhaimini, 31, and his wife, Alaa Kouider, 27, who are Muslims and live in the Ann Arbor area, say they went to a Tim Hortons on Hewitt and Michigan Avenue in Ypsilanti June 28 on their way to northern Michigan for a family vacation.
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