Woman fired after berating man in Trump hat
.jpg)
PALO ALTO, CALIF. — A woman who berated an elderly man for wearing a MAGA (“Make America Great Again”) hat in a Starbucks recently lost her job over the incident.
Rebecca Parker Mankey, an accountant, confronted the man both inside and outside the coffee shop, and then posted photos of him on Facebook, according to CBS in San Francisco.
She said she was going to shame him, get him fired and kicked out of clubs.
“This crazy woman came over and started raving at me. She turned to the rest of Starbucks and said, ‘Hey everybody, here’s this racist over here. He hates brown people, he’s crazy, he’s a Nazi,’ and so forth,” said Trump supporter Victor F.
The 74-year-old man is Jewish and wears a yarmulke underneath his MAGA hat.
In the end, people started angrily messaging Parker Mankey’s family and her employer, Gryphone Stringed Instruments, so she was fired.
“We feel that music is what brings people together. So having someone then making comments that are so divisive is not consistent with our values,” said store owner Richard Johnston.
