A shocking cellphone video shows a gas station employee hurling racial slurs at a longtime customer, who is now working on filing a lawsuit.
John Wong said he was shopping at a Circle K in Houston on Sept. 5 to get food for his pregnant girlfriend when he was verbally attacked by an employee.
Wong said he was completely shocked and added that he had never experienced racism in the 10 years he had been shopping at that Circle K.
In the video Wong recorded, the employee can be heard saying: “Hey, Chinese, Asian motherfucker. Put it in your country, not America. Get out of here.”
Wong said the employee refused to sell him food and instead continued to assault him. FOX 26 Houston reported.
Wong, left, stood outside the Circle K where she was racially harassed to share her shock at what happened. She recorded a video of the employee, right, yelling insults and profanity at her.
“This is a total shock to me. I have no idea why this person started insulting me and saying what he was saying,” Wong said.
At a news conference outside the gas station where Wong was confronted, civil rights attorney Randall Kallinen shared his outrage at the instance of racism.
“Circle K needs to come together and create a program on racial sensitivity,” Kallinen said.
Wong said he is working on a lawsuit unless Circle K can respond appropriately.
Circle K said in a statement that it immediately fired the employee who approached Wong after learning what happened.
Circle K said it is continuing to investigate the incident and wants to speak with Wong and his attorneys “to fully understand this experience from his perspective.”
“After learning of a confrontation between an employee and two customers two weeks ago at a Houston location, we made the decision to immediately terminate this employee for violating company policies,” the statement read.
He continued: ‘We were provided with a short 45-second video of this encounter recorded on a smartphone by the customer which included audio of the exchange. Although the video does not capture the entirety of the incident, what it shows clearly goes against our values and our code of conduct.’
Circle K said it is continuing to investigate the incident and wants to speak with Wong and his attorneys “to fully understand this experience from his perspective.”
DailyMail.com has contacted Circle K for comment.
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