Woman fired after MAGA-hat conflict with Starbucks customer

An incident at a California Starbucks involving a Make America Great Again hat has reportedly led to one person losing her job.

A woman was fired from her job at Gryphon Stringed Instruments after she confronted a man wearing a MAGA hat at a Starbucks, according to KTVU.

Local news outlets are identifying the woman as Rebecca Mankey and she reportedly “yelled at him about how it was not okay to hate brown people” and threatened “to publicly shame him in town and try to get him fired.”

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The woman called the 74-year-old Jewish man quote, “Nazi scum” and posted his picture to Twitter, Palo Alto Weekly reported.

The owner of Gryphon, Richard Johnson told USA Today, “everyone at Gryphon just wants to move on and get back to what we do best, which is musical instruments and playing music.”

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