Minnesota couple is banned from Walmart after wearing swastika face masks as woman rants: 'If you vote for Biden, this is what we're going to have, socialism!'
A couple have been banned from shopping at Walmart for a year after video showed them wearing swastika face masks at a store in Marshall, Minnesota.
Cellphone footage posted to Facebook by vicar Raphaela Mueller shows the man and a woman wearing bandana masks adorned with giant swastikas while paying for their purchases at the cash register.
In the video, a man who is off camera can be heard telling the couple, 'You're sick. You have an illness, you can't be American and wear that mask.'
A Minnesota couple have been banned from shopping at Walmart after they went viral for wearing swastika face masks while shopping in a store Saturday afternoon
The couple argued with fellow shoppers who told them how offensive the face masks were
As the man is speaking, the woman flings her arms up into the air in a 'ta-da!' gesture, before flashing her middle fingers at the camera.
The man also raises his arms into the air, before quickly going back to putting items onto the conveyor belt.
'We literally had a war about this,' the off-camera man says, as the swastika-decked woman saunters over.
As the woman mumbles something unintelligible, a second man off-camera says, 'My grandfather killed Nazis.'
The woman then paces around, denying the fact that she's a Nazi, saying instead 'socialism is going to happen here in America' and that 'If you vote for Biden, this is what we're going to have, socialism!'
One of the off-camera men brands the mask 'so incredibly offensive' as the woman walks away.
The female half of the couple is pictured here waving at the people she would later argue with
At one point, the woman marched over to the people who were videotaping them. The woman ranted about socialism being the result if Joe Biden were to win Election 2020
The woman denied that she was a Nazi. Police issued the couple with trespass notices that day
Raphaela Mueller posted the shocking video encounter on Facebook Saturday afternoon
Mueller, vicar of a southwest Minnesota parish, wrote in her Facebook post: 'I was born and raised in Germany, and I grew up hearing about my great-grandmother who fought in the underground against the first wave of Nazis in the 1930s and 40s.
'Let me make this abundantly clear once and for all - THE SWASTIKA IS A HATE SYMBOL AND YOU DO NOT FLY THE FLAG, YOU DO NOT WEAR THE SYMBOL ANYWHERE ON YOUR BODY, YOU DO NOT USE OR DEFEND THIS SYMBOL, EVER. END OF STORY.'
Mueller wrote on Facebook that the store manager said 'he didn't have the power to keep them out, regardless of what mask they were wearing.'
She also noted that she intended to call the customer service hotline and 'work my way as far to the top of the food chain as I can.'
'They won't (shouldn't?) allow people without face masks now that their new rule is in effect, offensive masks should be in the same category as no masks,' Mueller added.
After the video clip went viral, Walmart confirmed that the incident occurred at their Marshall store.
Mueller (pictured) said she was born and raised in Germany and noted that the ' swastika is a hate symbol and you do not fly the flag' or 'defend this symbol, ever'
Police told KARE that they were called to the Walmart at about noon Saturday because the couple's masks were creating a disturbance at the location.
Marshall PD then issued the couple - identified only as a 59-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman - with a notice of trespass. The duo then left the store without incident, police said.
It's unclear who called police on the couple with the swastika masks.
On Saturday night, Walmart issued a statement about the incident.
'What happened today at our store in Marshall, MN is unacceptable. We strive to provide a safe and comfortable shopping environment for all our customers and will not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment in any aspect of our business,' Walmart said in the statement obtained by KARE.
'We are asking everyone to wear face coverings when they enter our stores for their safety and the safety of others and it’s unfortunate that some individuals have taken this pandemic as an opportunity to create a distressing situation for customers and associates in our store.'
Walmart also told the news station that the trespass notices issued to the couple ban them from going to any Walmart for at least a year.
The couple had apparently decided to wear the swastika bandannas as a way to protest the state's mandatory mask rule, which went into effect Saturday and was issued to help slow the spread of coronavirus, according to the Star Tribune.
Mueller told the newspaper that 'It’s been shown that, biologically, trauma passes down through the generations in your DNA.'
She noted that: 'My immediate physical reaction was nausea and wanting to cry, so I can’t imagine what that must feel like for other people who lost family members in the Holocaust.'
Although authorities haven't named the couple, Facebook users claim to know the couple.
They 'have been known bigot [sic] in the town for awhile now,' one Facebook user wrote. 'They spray painted "build the wall" on their garage one year. I had to drive to the middleschooleach [sic] day and pass it.'
While the swastika-wearing couple are not facing charges stemming from this incident, they could be arrested if they step food inside a Walmart in the next 365 days.
The billions of "Made In China" tags in Walmarts around the country should been what offends people.
ReplyDeletehere we see a blatant display of sheeple ignorance by the fools who have history completely wrong. the sheeple fail to understand freedom of speech also. as for banning, how can they tell who the couple was? if they wear jesus face diapers tomorrow will anyone know/ of course not. more stupidity.
ReplyDeleteGo to Wall Mart to buy all China made crap and then claim to be a good America..you cant help these people.
ReplyDeleteWow! I don't know where to begin. Number one when Walmart banned them they decided to act like the fascists the swastika represents. Number two: The swastika was a symbol for good luck before Hitler adopted it as his symbol. The swastika has been around for hundreds of years. Number 3: we would probable be better off if the nazi's did win. Look at what we have today. We have left wing retards rioting all over and local governments joining in. We have the most expensive healthcare, we have a ton of corruption in the corporations and gov't. We have a revolving door in most of the government agencies like the FDA, FCC, CDC, USDA, and others where employees change between gov't agencies and the corporations they are suppose to regulate. That is how the Gulf oil spill happened. All of our problems can be traced to the private central bankers. Hitler threw them out and Germany flourished and then Churchill decided he had to crush Germany because it was a threat to the private central bankers and England's economy. If Hitler had won there is a good chance private central banks would no longer exist, at least not have the power they have now. In my research I have come to find out the allies lied a lot about Hitler. He was given credit for evil actions that never happened and no one mentions the fact he tried several times to have peace treaties signed and Churchill wanted no peace. Neither did Roosevelt. Watch a doc called 'The Greatest Story Never Told'. I do not know what side was the bad side but I do know the allies lied a lot about what was happening during that time and if the British and American people knew about the lies and deceit back then I don't think there would have been a push for war after Pearl Harbor. In fact PH may not have even happened as that was created by insulting and barricading the Japanese. Hitler had every righgt to invade Poland. They stole a big chunk of Germany after WWI but did not replace the German citizens that lived there. The Poles started to kill, rape, steal, and destroy their property. Hitler tried several times to arrange a treaty to get that piece of Germany back and the Poles rejected him and kept killing the Germans. Hitler had no choice. Hitler was by no means was the worst of WWII. Stalin was by far the worst POS leader in that war and Hitler wanted to get rid of the communists because he saw the threat they posed. The private central bankers wanted to get rid of Hitler because he was the biggest threat they had ever faced. I don't know how different things would be today if Hitler had won. They may be better in some ways and worse in others. But if he had won I am sure there would have been a lot of changes in the last 70 years or so and Nazi Germany today would look a lot different than it did in WWII, just like the allies look a lot different. Who would have seen the jews, fags, queers, and niggers taking over society. I doubt the nazi's would have allowed that to happen. Being the allies won they have written the history and there are a lot of lies in that re-write. If a country went to war for good reasons and won that war then why would it have to lie about the losing side to it's people?? They would if they were the bad guys and they lied for that war.
ReplyDeleteThey should have used the hammer and sickle...not the swastika....as the swastika is NOT a symbol of socialism.... but the hammer and sickle is the symbol of COMMUNISM and that's what's being pushed with Biden and the Democommies. They chose wrong....
ReplyDeleteThere is no such thing as "sense" anymore senselessnessism is the the new norm. when you call any communistic company THEY ALL SAY "All CALLS ARE MONITORED AND RECORDED FOR EVALUATION AND TRAINING. The faceless mask behind the faceless company.
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