On Monday, community activists Quanell X and Dr. Candice Matthews stood with 65-year-old Betty Smith and her family, along with a local pastor on Monday afternoon.
They demanded justice after employees at Lindemann Grocery Store off of SH 159 locked Smith in the store and refused to let her leave after she found a $50 bill on the floor.Betty Smith, 65, tells FOX 26 she went to Lindemann Grocery Store in Austin County to pick up some ice cream and a honeybun for her son when she was attacked by the clerks after she found $50 off the floor.
Smith says the store manager told her she couldn't leave with the money, because it may have belonged to someone else. The fight over the money escalated, and at one point Smith was put in a choke hold, one employee snatched the money from her hand, and she claims one of the women used racial slurs.
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