Illinois Dairy Queen Shuttered After Owner Directs Racial Slur At Customer
LatestA Dairy Queen in Zion, Illinois has been closed after its owner used a racial slur while quarreling with a customer.
The AP reports that franchise owner Jim Crichton called 21-year-old customer Deianeira Ford and her children—a two-year-old girl and five-month-old boy—a racial slur. He moreover proclaimed that he was “fed up with black people” and professed willingness to go to jail over the matter. According to a Zion police report, Crichton used the slur after Ford told him her order hadn’t been filled correctly, and that she would like a refund.