KETTERING — UPDATE AT 3:45:
United Dairy Farmer’s CEO released a statement Wednesday about the racial incident that took place at the Kettering location on Monday.
INITIAL REPORT
Kettering Police are investigating after video filmed by a customer at a gas station Monday appears to show a woman yelling a racial slur at a black employee.
The incident happened Monday afternoon at United Dairy Farmers on Dorothy Lane.
According to witnesses and a non-emergency call to Kettering Police obtained by WHIO, the clerk asked a woman to move to a different line, at which point the customer became angry.
Mark, who lives in Kettering and did not want to share his last name publicly, said the woman began making personal, racial remarks, at which point she was asked to leave by store employees. Video reviewed by News Center 7 shows the woman yelling the racial slur as she left the store.
Mark confronted her outside, where video appears to show the woman’s car hitting him. He was not seriously injured, but said he was angered by what happened.
“As a father of three children who are of mixed heritage,” he said, “I felt like I needed to stand up for them, Mark said.”
“To use such disgusting verbiage to attack another person, to try to diminish them because you’re mad you had to stand at the back of the line to get ice cream is horrible,” he said.
Kettering Police told News Center 7 they took a report down, but have not made any arrests. Prosecutors will review the case.
WHIO did not identify the woman in the video because to date, we have not been able to reach her for comment.
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