A Subway manager was fired on Thursday after footage surfaced of the restaurant employee hurling racial slurs at a customer.
The incident occurred Tuesday night at the sandwich shop on Valley Ave in Birmingham, Alabama, upon the customer, Antuan Clark’s arrival.
According to reports, Clark said he went to the restaurant to visit his sister on her first day at work. However, the visit quickly turned into a nightmare after an unnamed manager condemned him for loitering.
The incident quickly escalated, as the manager began hurling racial slurs at Clark, which prompted him to record the entire ordeal.
The video later went viral.
Since then, the manager, who has since been identified as April Epperson, has been fired and the location has been shut down for additional training.
But now, in the wake of her dismissal, Epperson is looking to open up and apologize about her “slip up.”
“She’s in training and while she’s here she doesn’t need a distraction,” Epperson said as she explained why she asked Clark to leave the premises. “I’m going to need them to get away from the property or step off the property while she’s at work.”
“He punched me in the face. I pushed him out the door because that was the only thing I knew to do. I felt like I was in danger. I pushed him out the door. He punches me in my face and as soon as I shut the door, the only thing that came out of my mouth was, “Ni**er,” and I’m sorry,” she said. “It could have been a Mexican standing there. It popped out of my mouth that’s what that Mexican would have got called. That white person would have got called that too.”
“I said the wrong word. I’m sorry for it. I am taking my punishment and I’m walking away from it,” she added. “I get that I screwed up. I’m a big girl. I can handle it. But I can’t handle being called racist on national television over a slip up.”
Epperson was fired Thursday for the incident and has since apologized.
