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Chili's removes Cedar Hill manager who took away man's free Veterans Day meal
Dallas News ^ | November 14, 2016 | By Julieta Chiquillo

Posted on 11/14/2016 9:41:12 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

For his free meal on Veterans Day, Ernest Walker picked the Chili's Grill & Bar in Cedar Hill. The 47-year-old sat at a table and ordered a burger while his service dog, Barack, waited by his side.

Chili's is apologizing for what happened next.

As Walker tells it, an elderly white man wearing a Donald Trump shirt approached him and said that he was in Germany and that blacks weren't allowed to serve there. Walker, who is black, says he was wearing his old Army uniform.

The man walked to the back of the restaurant, Walker says, and a waitress came to pack his leftovers. Then a manager showed up.

In a widely shared Facebook post, Walker wrote that the manager claimed another guest said Walker was not "a real soldier" because he was wearing his hat indoors. Walker said he provided a military ID at the manager's request, along with his discharge papers. . .The manager couldn't be reached for comment Sunday. He has been put on leave, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reports.

One of Walker's attorneys, Kim Cole, said in an email that officials with Chili's and its parent company, Brinker International, apologized to Walker via phone Monday. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


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To: miss marmelstein
The writing in this totally confuses me.

You're not alone there. Illiterate writer, incompetent editor.
21 posted on 11/14/2016 10:38:53 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: ping jockey

I don’t care if a guy is black brown white or purple, if they served, of if they are simply a customer, you treat them with respect.

I get downright angry when customers are abused.

Customers can get out of line too though, and that angers me too, when it’s with a good worker or manager.

Liberals are cruising for a real bruising these days.

Good for you.


22 posted on 11/14/2016 11:02:34 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The morning and the evening were the election day. People voted. The Lord saw, and it was good.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This story has a bad smell about it. Blacks have been serving in Germany since WW2. My wife spent 11 years living there in the 50’s and early 60’s, and saw many black servicemen esp. in Heidelberg and West Berlin.

At age 47, this “veteran” is either crazy, has Dementia, or is a liar re what he claimed the Trump supporter reportedly said.


23 posted on 11/14/2016 11:29:15 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: mass55th

LOL!!!


24 posted on 11/14/2016 11:39:48 PM PST by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Ernest Walker was a retired chaplin:


25 posted on 11/14/2016 11:43:14 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: InvisibleChurch
"Why didnt the guy in the trump shirt just mind his own business?"

There was no "guy in a Trump shirt". It's a lie.

26 posted on 11/14/2016 11:43:57 PM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Godebert

Ok, no trump shirt, that’s fine. Still, why make your way into someone else’s business!


27 posted on 11/14/2016 11:45:50 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
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To: mass55th

The dog’s name was Barack, so it was either out playing golf, or on vacation. <<<<<<<<<

LOL, glad I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read this!!!


28 posted on 11/14/2016 11:48:45 PM PST by Mjaye
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To: InvisibleChurch

Don’t believe any of this story. More agit-prop from the far left.


29 posted on 11/14/2016 11:50:53 PM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: ping jockey

Good for you. I can imagine the jerk complaining about your treatment of him around his girlfriend. I can imagine her telling him to get lost too.


30 posted on 11/14/2016 11:51:09 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: ASOC

Considering Truman integrated the military, that would have to be a pretty old guy...


31 posted on 11/14/2016 11:51:38 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I think this black thug is lying.


32 posted on 11/14/2016 11:54:29 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Justice and common sense seem to be coming back into the cheeks of the American people now that they see that the WH virus, BHO, is about to be booted out the door. It's about time...

Good move, Chili's

33 posted on 11/15/2016 1:59:45 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: ping jockey

Its’ a good thing you didn’t take him to the parking lot. He might have spit on you and contaminated you with the HIV / AIDs virus and you might have ended up in jail after he cried and whined to police. Just depends on where you’re at. Some police would just walk knowing the punk deserved it and not even taken a report on it; especially if they ran the guy’s background and found quite a bit of history which those types of places attract as employees.


34 posted on 11/15/2016 2:05:07 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Godebert

Well the way the story is written it’s hard to understand. The left are definitely putting a lot of BS stories out there lately pretending to come from sources on the right. Typically they’ve done it from the left’s perspective but I have noticed they are starting to write the BS stories from the right pretending to be from what appears to be legitimate source when they’re not (i.e. as in Trump said this or that and said nothing of the kind, or an alleged Trump supporter showing up at one of the protests to “kick some a**”...yeah sure, or some other thing a Trump supporter would never do)


35 posted on 11/15/2016 2:12:08 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: InvisibleChurch

It sounds like the other vet found something odd in the uniform. There have been many cases of “stolen valor” ticking off real vets. Anybody can put on a uniform, but fakers don’t get them quite right. I can see some overzealous real vet in a bar getting ticked about what he thinks is a faker on Veteran’s Day and convincing a manager.


36 posted on 11/15/2016 2:22:44 AM PST by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
an elderly white man wearing a Donald Trump shirt approached him and said . . . that blacks . . .

What are the chances that this one is fake like all the other "hate crimes" reported by #BlackThugsMatter? My guess - 100%.

37 posted on 11/15/2016 2:23:22 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ping jockey

Good for you!


38 posted on 11/15/2016 2:42:09 AM PST by MomwithHope (Missing you /johnny (JRandomFreeper). THE LIBERAL BUBBLE HAS BURST!!!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Don’t like the “free stuff” on Veterans Day and have never taken advantage of it (24-year Navy vet). It should all go away. Service to the country was, and is, its own reward. Active duty in uniform are a different story — they should be comped any day at any time, at proprietors’ discretion.


39 posted on 11/15/2016 2:45:12 AM PST by nickedknack
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This story has some holes. Most of the outrage is based on what Walker said happened, and a video of about 1 minute near the end of the incident.

1. Where is the guy with the Trump Shirt?
2. Did this guy really say no Blacks serve in Germany? We are only hearing on side here.
3. Did this guy really sign up at 16 in the late 80s, during peacetime?
4. He served 2 years and got out when he was 18? Who serves only two years?
5. Why is he wearing BDUs like they are a pair of pajamas? He is a civilian and he is not subjected to military regulations, but I know of no Vet that does this.
6. Wearing a cover in a place wear people eat? I guess some vets do this.
7. What was said before between the manager and before he turned on his camera?

I actually still wonder if this man was really a vet. He claims and yells that he showed his papers, but do we even know what they say?

The manager showed very poor judgement, and should learn to pick his fights a little better. Once you give someone something you shouldn’t rip it out of their hands.


40 posted on 11/15/2016 2:53:02 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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