MARSHALL, Minn. (AP) — A couple in Minnesota wore red face masks emblazoned with swastikas to a Walmart in a video posted on social media.
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Police were called Saturday to the Walmart in Marshall, in the southwest part of the state, on a report that two shoppers were wearing the mask with the symbol used by the Nazi Party. Another shopper, Raphaela Mueller, who is a vicar of a southwest Minnesota parish, posted video on Facebook of the man and woman being confronted by others in the store, the Star Tribune reported.
“If you vote for (Democratic presidential candidate Joe) Biden, you’re going to be living in Nazi Germany, that’s what it’s going to be like,” the woman with the swastika mask said in the video as her husband loaded bags of groceries into a shopping cart.
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Mueller said when she first saw the couple, she felt “nauseated and I wanted to cry, which I ended up doing.”
“I was speechless and shocked. I have heard of (things like this) happening in other places but I never thought I would see something like that,” she told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Marshall police gave the couple no-trespass notices but did not cite or arrest them, police Capt. Jeff Wenker told the AP on Sunday. Police did not identify the couple.
Saturday was the first day that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s executive order took effect requiring masks in businesses and indoor public spaces to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Walmart already requires customers to wear masks at its namesake and Sam’s Club stores.
In a statement, Walmart said the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer “will not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment in any aspect of our business.”
“Store management offered the individuals disposable face masks as an alternative, which they refused. The individuals became belligerent and were asked to leave the store by store management,” Walmart said.
The couple’s trespass ban is for at least a year and applies to all Walmart stores, the company said.
Note the trump shirt as well, that is no coincidence, that is what all your frumskies are voting for
These are true patriots. Trump 2020!
BLM and NAZIS are the same, the former is sponsored by Soros
I so happy to see that the man has a Trump shirt. We need all the supporters that we can get.
It is VERY easy to put on a mask, hood etc (hide your identity) and be a racist or nazi while pretending to be trump supporters in order to give trump supporters a a bad name.
Oldest leftist tactic there is.
Nothing new. Neo-Nazis in america voted for Trump. The very fine people are his voters.
Um, did all you people commenting that this couple voted for Trump even bother reading the article? Because if you did, you’d see they are NOT Nazis, they are worried that’s what the US is going to turn into if Joe Biden gets voted in. People, read the article, not just the misleading headline!
What does it have to do with Joe Biden? The totalitarian laws are already in place requiring mask wearing. They are sending a message that America is inviting a medically run totalitarian regime which will make the Nazi doctors envious.
Go to a trump rally. Look at all the nazi tattoos. Denying what os in front of your eyes? Convince yourself he isn’t loved by nazis and fascists? You’re not fooling anyone, only yourselves. 1933 is his gift for your loyalty.
I miss Walmart! Go Walmart go! When are you opening in EY?
the Nazis were about big government and identity politics – sounds like the democrats to me – they are right – if you vote for Biden, you are voting for Nazis