The employee has been fired after a video of the encounter went viral on Facebook.
A white campground manager in Mississippi has been fired after pulling a gun on a black couple who had stopped by with their dog to have a picnic.
"This lady literally just pulled a gun because we out here and din't have reservations for a lake we didn't even know we had to have reservations for," Jessica Richardson says in a video she took of the confrontation and posted to Facebook."The only thing you had to do was tell us to leave, we would have left, you did not have to pull a gun," Richardson tells the woman.
“Time stopped. Everything stopped. I was confused as to what was going on. It’s not like we posed a threat to anybody out there walking our dog. There’s nothing harmful about that,” Richardson told WCBI.In the video, the woman can be seen putting the gun in the pocket of her shorts. KOA also clarified that reservations are not required for the site, which is privately owned. Guests are asked to register upon arrival, which the Richardsons didn't know.
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