A Louisiana convenience store employee was fired after a video went viral of her tossing a bucket of water on a homeless woman sitting outside the shop in below-freezing temperatures.
Video shows a female worker on the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge confronting a homeless woman who was sitting in front of the shop on a brisk 26-degree day over the Christmas holiday weekend.
“Move! Not telling y’all again. Move it!” the employee might be heard exclaiming within the video. “Clear the —- out!”
Abdullah Mufahi, the shop’s owner, fired the worker featured within the video inside 24 hours of the video going viral, WAFB reported.
The worker, identified by the Day by day Mail as 44-year-old Kasey Young, posted the video online herself and defended her actions. Young claimed she tried to get the group of homeless people to go away the shop’s parking zone and called the police.
An worker of the convenience store told WAFB that Young was known for feeding homeless people in the world and that she lost her temper the morning the video was taken.
Mufahi said during a press conference, “Once I got the news, I didn’t speak to the worker an excessive amount of. All I told her was to go away the property because we don’t handle situations like that.”
The worker said the homeless people often loiter outside the shop, use drugs and harass customers. Despite this, the shop’s owner says she must have done “anything but what she did.”
The homeless woman shown within the video has since been connected with the correct services to receive assistance.
The Baton Rouge Police Department couldn’t confirm whether the worker will face any charges.
