Jury Awards $1M To Oregon Woman Who Tried To Buy Gas But Was Told: ‘I Don’t Serve Black People’

Twitter.com By Melissa Noel ·Updated January 27, 2023

A jury awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after it found that a gas station employee had discriminated against her by telling her, “I don’t serve Black people,” the Associated Press reports.

This week, the Multnomah County jury’s award to Portland resident Rose Wakefield included punitive damages of $550,000.

According to Wakefield’s lawyer, Gregory Kafoury, the 63-year-old stopped for gas

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