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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Samira Asma-Sadeque

Oregon woman awarded $1m over racist discrimination at gas station

A gasoline pump sits in a holder at an Exxon gas station
An attendant at the Jacksons gas station in Washington county, Oregon, kept passing over Rose Wakefield to serve other customers.
Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

An Oregon woman has been awarded $1m by a jury after facing racist discrimination at a gas station where the attendant told her: “I don’t serve Black people.”

A jury in Multnomah county reached the decision after a four-day trial in a case in which Rose Wakefield from Portland claimed an attendant at the gas station had refused to serve her because of her race.

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