{"id":34705,"date":"2017-01-10T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=34705"},"modified":"2017-01-10T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T18:23:09","slug":"dairy-queen-shuts-down-restaurant-after-owner-proudly-admitted-using-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/dairy-queen-shuts-down-restaurant-after-owner-proudly-admitted-using-racial-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"Dairy Queen Shuts Down Restaurant After Owner \u2018Proudly Admitted\u2019 Using Racial Slur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dairy Queen shut down a restaurant in Illinois after police said its owner\u00a0\u201cproudly admitted\u201d to using a racial slur against a customer last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Deianeira Ford said DQ in Zion, Illinois, mixed up her order at the drive-through window, the Washington Post reported. When owner Jim Crichton wouldn\u2019t fix the order, she asked for a refund. Instead, he hurled racist epithets at her.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt was really just upsetting especially with having my children in the car,\u201d Ford told The Associated Press. \u201cI mean, no one deserves to be treated like that<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, she called the police.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the Washington Post, the officer wrote that \u201cCrichton boastfully told me he would be happy to go to jail over the issue,\u201d and \u201cproudly admitted<\/a>\u201d to using the racist slur. Crichton also told the officer he was \u201cfed up with black people\u201d and continued to freely use the slur in the conversation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crichton stated that the accusations towards him are 99% lies, but he did offer an apology.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I said was not appropriate and is something I cannot take back. I have no excuse. I can only ask for forgiveness and try to make it up to all involved.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dairy Queen initially said Crichton would undergo sensitivity training, AP noted. However, amid protests at the restaurant,\u00a0Dairy Queen closed the location and said it would not reopen unless a new owner took control.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  Dairy Queen shut down a restaurant in Illinois after police said its owner\u00a0\u201cproudly admitted\u201d to using a racial slur against a customer last week. Deianeira Ford said DQ in Zion, Illinois, mixed up her order at the drive-through window, the Washington Post reported. When owner Jim Crichton wouldn\u2019t fix the order, she asked for a refund. Instead, he hurled racist epithets at her. \u201cIt was really just upsetting especially with having my children in the car,\u201d Ford told The Associated Press. \u201cI mean, no one deserves to be treated like that.\u201d So, she called the police. According to the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5843,619],"tags":[6060,4080],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34709,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705\/revisions\/34709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34705"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}