Sarah Safi went to the Family Dollar store on Garfield Street Monday afternoon.
AB Wire
A Muslim woman from Gary, Indiana, said she felt discriminated against after she claims a worker at a Family Dollar store told her to remove her head covering or leave a store in Indiana.
Sarah Safi, 32, said she went to the Family Dollar store on Garfield Street Monday afternoon to buy charcoal for a family barbecue, ABC owned station WSL reported.
“I might have made it 10 steps into the store and I hear the lady behind the counter say, ‘Ma’am, you need to take that off your face or you need to leave my store,” Safi said.
Safi, who was fully covered, as she says she always is when in public, then started recording the incident on her cellphone.
She told the woman behind the counter who said she was the manager, that she dresses this way for her religion. The manager told her to leave.
“I understand, but you have to understand too this is a high-crime area and we get robbed a lot. You need to remove that from your face or remove yourself from the store,” the manager can been saying on the video.
Safi uploaded the cellphone video on her Facebook and she says she decided to leave because she had four children waiting in her car outside.
ABC News also reports that the employee from the Family Dollar store declined to provide comment on the incident.
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