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| Store Worker Asked Her to Leave Over Niqab |
Sarah Safi, 32, said she went into the Family Dollar on Garfield Street Monday evening to purchase charcoal for a family grill, ABC-claimed station WLS reported. Safi was completely secured, as she says she generally is when openly.
"I might have made it 10 steps into the store and I hear the lady behind the counter say, 'Ma'am, you need to take that off your face or you need to leave my store,'" Safi told WLS.
By then, Safi said she began recording the occurrence on her cellphone.
The cellphone video, which Safi transferred and made open on her Facebook, begins with Safi, who can be heard asking, "You're letting me know I need to leave this store?"
A worker answers, "Yes, ma'am. In the event that you can't expel that from your face then you have to leave the store," the video appears.
Safi tries to clarify what she's wearing "is a religious piece of clothing."
The representative answers: "I see, yet you need to see this is a high-wrongdoing zone where we get burglarized a ton. You have to expel that from your face or expel yourself from the store."
The representative later includes, "I am the director, and I'm instructing you to leave my store," the video appears.
Safi seems to approach the representative at one point and ask her what her name is, however the worker appears to simply rehash, "Have a favored day," to Safi.
Safi then says on the video, "This is a nation where it's opportunity of religion and it's right to speak freely. I have a privilege to wear whatever I need to wear. Women come in here with swimming outfit tops on," the video says.
The worker seems to say that "the cops [are] coming" yet Safi answers, "No, I'm leaving" before seeming to leave the store.
Outside, Safi says, "May Allah help this world right now," before the video closes.
Safi told WLS that since she had four youngsters holding up in her auto outside, she simply chose to take off.
"Do I sit tight for the police to come and let my youngsters see this, or do I proceed and simply go and let Allah handle it how He sees fit?" she said. "I've never been to a foundation and been dealt with like this."
Safi included that she has been covering her face out in the open for a considerable length of time and that the main thing she needs is for the worker in the video to apologize.
"I might want to sit with her and address her about what I have faith in, in light of the fact that possibly on the off chance that she heard and truly listened to what I trust, I would open her heart," she told WLS.
Safi did not promptly react to ABC News' solicitations for input.
A representative from the Family Dollar store in the video told ABC News today the store's supervisor was declining to give remark on the occurrence.
Bryn Winburn, open and media relations director at Family Dollar's corporate base camp, told ABC News today that the store in the occurrence "while still marked Family Dollar, is claimed and worked by a different organization, Dollar Express."
Winburn alluded request to Dean Williamson, senior VP of HR and boss lawful officer at Dollar Express Stores LLC.
Williamson did not instantly react to ABC News' solicitations for input.
The Gary Police Department's open data officer likewise did not instantly return ABC News' solicitations for input.
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