A video that went viral shows a woman at a Costco in Hillsboro, Oregon, being denied service after she refused to wear a face mask and said she had “constitutional rights.”
In the clip, shared on Twitter, an employee tells the woman she needs to wear a mask in the store and reminds her that it is private property. The woman says she is not a Costco member. The employee offers to help her sort that out, but says she still has to put a mask on. The woman answers that she will not.
After asking to speak with a manager, the woman sits on the floor in protest. The employee, who stays calm throughout, asks her to wait outside. She says she is not leaving and asks if they plan to carry her out.
The woman has not been publicly identified in the reports we reviewed, and we did not find a response from her or from Costco. Masks were a hot topic at the time, with the Daily Mail reporting more than 9,200 coronavirus cases and over 200 deaths in Oregon as of July 2.
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