Image captionMarks & Spencer says it is looking into an allegation that one of its shop workers racially harassed a customer.
The mother-of-two said it happened after a dispute inside the store about where to queue for the tills. Officers were called to Mayflower Retail Park at about 13:00 BST on Friday 7 August to deal with a report that a woman in her 30s had been harassed.Essex Police was called to the M&S branch at Mayflower Retail Park in Basildon
Mrs Hussain said:"As we were walking to our car, they were also walking with us. They were both going on and on."I moved to Essex from London less than two years ago for a quieter life to raise my children, but since I've been here I've had the most racial discrimination, and it makes me wonder if it's because I wear a headscarf."
I am truly horrified however in this country you’re innorcent until proven guilty. I hope this isn’t a one sided tale I was accused by a customer recently that I called her fat & she needed exercise🤥all because she wanted a refund of a deposit which I wasn’t prepared to refund
Follow up to M&S selling brown bras described as tobacco. Who’s next?
Any evidence?
Where does this end god you black people should know white people got whipped and clubbed too and sold as slaves too that's bad too but that's history and can't be changed and I'm billion percent right .. but is that ok for white people to get whipped and beaten too ?
I felt harassed in M&S once whilst looking for tea cakes. Oh, sorry, I think I made it up.
I understand this is terrible but it is not worthy of headline news.
Was you was you really? Or were your feelings hurt because you are over sensitive?
Can I buy a race card from m and s so that I can flash it every single bloody day, constantly without ever bloody stopping
I get the impression that the media wants some sort of civil unressed...they are always Stiring trouble!
CBA to even type a reply .......🙄
Stop being MBC
I'd be the first to complain about racism if I'd witnessed it. However a woman blatantly pushed in front of me recently - and the rest of the 40 min queue - and when I challenged her she yelled 'black lives matter!' in my face. Arseholes can come in all shades of human.
Most unlikely.
Borrrrrrrrrrrrrring i
Well, if they CAN read, why were they queuing in the wrong place?
Well it is the Brexiteer heartland - what do you expect?
More BBC bull shit...don’t fall for it and start arguing. Probably nothing like the real event and most of the truth missing to get a race bait discussion going. Ignore it
Person alleges harassment by retail staff member.... I bet there were 1000s of complaints nationwide yesterday that would be no interest to the media. This isn't national news, if it's true I hope the lady gets an apology but it's not worthy of an article
Oh here we go typical bbc
Free women!!!
She moved to Essex- nuff said!
It's BBC crap reporting
Hey, you got ratioed: 1.22 at the time of this response (250 replies, 205 likes).
Band wagon gets bigger
Why it’s almost as if the BBC are trying to push some sort of agenda 🤔🤔
Racist against a religion...?
Don't believe a word of it.
That is easier than knife crime or even bag snatching !
Was it MarkFrancois12 ?
Thus reeks of bs
But they keep telling us we all part of the one race
USA black man murders 5 year old boy and not in the news. UK coloured women gets told 'the queue's over there, can you not read?' and 'People like you can't read.' and the news are all over it. I don't understand life anymore.
So there is a story cause someone said to them 'can you not read, people like you cant read' . Being rude to someone of race is now racist. If the news want segregation from everyone which will cause major problems they are gonna get it with this garbage this is NOT NEWS.
On the radio this morning, she was upset when one asked 'Can't you read?' No mention of: 'People like you can't read.' Huge difference. Wonder why she didn't mention the latter version, which would be racist, when interviewed?
BBC? NO THANK YOU ! FUCK OFF BBC!
What a beautiful woman
Really?! Basildon M&S Store shutdown months ago......
Obviously I don't know what exactly happened here but I have seen cases of 'I didn't get my own way so I will play the race card'. BBC should get the full story before publishing.
A major problem with religious self abuse, is the addicted are always on the alert to blame others.
BBC has now desensitised us to racism. It reports ‘harrasment’ and ‘grafitti ‘, but chooses not to report black on black knife crime!
And what exactly was wrong? If they can't read? Send the back where their ancestors have been born. You wanna live here you are gonna comply to our rules not your. You wanna live here you are not allowed to be Muslim. Simple. But who has the balls to say from our politicians?
Yawn
I genuinely don't give a fuck.
That kind of behaviour is to be expected from the lower specimens who inhabit a place like Basildon.
Meanwhile....
Welcome to the UK
Love M&S
There are too many Trump, BoJo and UKIP loving f* in the UK. We need to get these MF cleaned up and send them back to their swamp! Only way to do it is taking evidence and publish them with NamelessRacistMF and report to police.
Didn't happen.
Hope they get a sack for unprofessional behaviour.
So what proof does the BBC have that they were MS staff What proof does the BBC have that this took place At the moment this allegedly took place..shouldnt the Bbc wait until more information was available
'I'm shocked and hurt that in the 21st Century people still have this mentality' 😂😂😂mirror
Something else that didn't really happen, or if it did, it had nothing to do with race!!
BBC stirring up racial tensions again, what a surprise, nothing about a 5yo being shot in the head and the worderful BLM thinking it's funny, you have become a shameful left wing Britain hating racist organisation and the sooner you are disbanded and shut down the better!
BORING!
Disgusting. I’m so sorry to hear this
I don’t believe she was called out for no reason by the M&S staff. I witness the burka nation terrible attitude and misbehaver which is coming out of control.
Race/identity. The MSM's obsession!!!
That’s a bit rich; from a Jewish company 🙄 says it all 🤬
Vs what is not reported
It's been a bad week for M & S
My educated guess is M&S staff member will be a leave voter. MakeBritainGreatAgain
Can’t see anything racist in this report. This is getting silly.
Probably another hoax
Wait until she’s eaten the food from the Covid-19 supplier in Northampton!
Cannon Hinnant bbc, are you reporting this?
CannonHinnant
Why is this on the MSM? surely this should have been sorted out by the police, but no it has to make the MSM because you lot have an AGENDA.. DefundTheBBC
I am totally against racism but it's not even clear what happened yet!
News
To everyone who was robbed, murdered or raped today the BBC decided this was more newsworthy.
One of Boris Britain's heartlands
This is an allegation , maybe you should think about saving that headline until it's proven.
Islam is not a race, its a virus
In fairness my experience with M&S has mostly been positive, I think this is an isolated event and shouldn't really reflect on their image.
So not news yet?
Bollox
I got called white honky. And damn white people all the time. Or hear thats white person behavior all the time on social media. Is it ok if I come and get headline news about it when I do ? Stop publishing race hatred and all other crap
BBC a racist organisation and TBH a fucking disgrace. Stir stir srir
Unsubstantiated.... but that will suit the BBC narrative just nicely
All this over a queue for the till. If we were all to be that sensitive honestly some things best left ignored. On the way home I witnessed a white guy about to launch into an attack on a Muslim guy. It didn't come to anything but one day that guy will pick on the wrong person.
What an absolute load of tripe
DefundTheBBC
The number of times I've seen people like her think they can just walk to the front of the queue is ridiculous. Bet the shop worker was just telling her where she should be queuing. It must be the week for foreigners to complain about racial abuse at Marks & Spencers
What a load of pish
Glad I sacked paying the licence, same old shit.
ThatMatt72 That's not just racial harassment, that's M&S racial harassment.
Of course she was !
P*ss *ff
Stop hallucinating about rrrraaaaaacism
Slow news day?
Essex is a breeding ground of thick shit right wing tossers, Kent is the same. London is far better.
Racism is financial system NOT an emotional state of mind or to be confused with prejudice or bias or bigotry.
She is beautiful
Islam is a race?
Makes a change its usually the other way round.
So before something can be investigated by M&S and the police its already going to be trial by social media .
Holy shit
Be sure to keep us informed about how this turns out.
The case should be looked into before it is reported, no details should be mentioned until there is an outcome either... Bloody media influencing.
Wouldn't it be nice if the BBC employed actual journalists to get both sides of a story and then publish a balanced article. Instead they seem to judge their successes by the number of clicks and so publish drivel like this.
It’s not racial abuse, it’s M&S racial abuse 🤔
they probably thought it was a mannequin coming to attack them, trouble with women nowadays you can't tell them apart from plastic deformed sex dolls.
.... and the police are investigating ? Haven’t they got more important things to do? Years ago this would never have made headlines.
Unfortunately there are to many white people in the UK who have sub-intellect, these are the racists.
Really. Have the police investigated and brought charges? That's when this becomes news. Until then, INNOCENT until at least charged, even then, its still not guilt.
Another event which didn’t happen
One word: Basildon.
😱😱😱😱😱
M&S employ how many people across the country...
bbcalleges
Now.... let’s watch all the racists defending the M&S staff and giving opposite examples to justify their hate of minorities
An argument in a supermarket and you report this as news?
well 2 women i think they were women wearing full head to toe covering pushed me out of the queue in Sainsbury and when i said something staff told me to leave it as they always do it and nothing can not be done ,sickening one sided and BBC makes it worse
Two sides to every story . But one thing's for sure .the police obviously have got f-all better to do . I thought employees wore name badges
Yeah....so it didn't happen
Moved to Essex for a quiet life not a good move
essexlive will you be reporting this?
Teach her to go to basildon won’t it
More bullsht
BBC at it again. DefundTheBBC
What a surprise - a BBC story highlighting how racist Britain is.
Why is this remotely important, and why is it national news?
Is there another side to this story BBCNews? Thank goodness Richard Baker cannot see what you've turned into.
its a manakin
Biased Bait Channel.
Phew. Thought the BAME channel was stimied for a racist of the day feature....
Defund the bbc
Yeah yeah whatever, compo claim incoming.........
If the country brought back capital punishment, would the BBC employ an executioner? It’s a wonder how this one time great institution has become so grotesquely biased.
U.K. is one of the most racist countries in the world . Their police ask questions about Ethnic background. On all their online forms, there is a section of “Ethic Background “: White British, White-Other,,,The invented racist term “BAME “is the most notable example .
I mean it’s Basildon, not the most progressive area of Essex, I would expect that kind of behaviour 🙄
Used an offensive term and said people like you can't read. That is very vague. It says someone used racial abuse but doesn't put it anywhere in the little set of events afterwards. This is a shite article.
Fake news
Guess what you heard it first on the B.B.C I wonder you told them.
Do you scour the country for the slightest racist thing to report on? Are you aware you are making it look like we are a racist nation, when in fact we are almost certainly the least racist nation on earth. This is why we are so diverse and why people risk their lives to be here.
I would highly doubt this 😂
Don’t think M&S staff lack in etiquettes generally! Don’t forget EVERY story has two sides. Instead of sensationalizing EVERYTHING let the police do their job. You are ‘creating stories’ here. Shame as you are paid for by license fee and NOT by shareholders for goodness sakes.
Where do the BBC find all these race stories.
Racially?... What's her race? Journalists [ops! 'The Media'] keep fomenting this tension between the 'races' and that will only put 'whites' in jeopardy. Despicable them. The journalists... 🤮🤢😡
Of course she was. Just because someone says they were racially abused doesn't necessarily mean that they WERE racially abused. Both sides of the story need reporting, not just one.
Fake
There are people that have lived here for 60 years that still can't speak or read English...
Here we go....... Fart in the wrong direction and they are looking for compensation.
Stop lying.
🤣
Sounds like handbags
This is not just ordinary racism, this is M&S racism.
And you’ve substantiated these allegations before broadcasting have you?
'It is hard to remember that short months ago we were free, living in Democratic countries. We have been locked in our houses and muzzled over a Virus with a morbidity rate less than the flu. Lets take a look at how we got here.'
I don't think its racist about saying to someone about not being able to read and staff are also wrong saying things like that to customers what ever race they are,
Disgusting
One sided media story again from the experts at one sided stories at the black bullshit committee 🙄
Basildon is the most racist area. i used to live there , two weeks and moved out
Hay BBC. Have you ever wondered why the majority no longer want the BBC to continue? You and Ofcom’s days are numbered.
I'm shocked that in the 21st century women still walk round the UK dressed like that ! Racism my backside !
Better follow rules then..
This is horrible.
Promote them
This is unacceptable
BBC bang at it again
Been to Rochdale etc previously or recently.
The Black Broadcasting Company strikes again.
The staff do have a point though
Ban the staff member from FPL
Yet another BBC “news” click bait headline. Why not report on the news, rather than trying to create the news. Shameful
BBC hates white people
Women who doesn’t want to stand in a queue like everyone else was given some verbal
I don't think she had read the sign as to where the queue should start...?
False news, BBC.
How is this racial discrimination? the staff member was just being a dickhead.
Oh stop it now.
Oh fuck of bbc
This narrative is getting fucking boring now.
BBC there to stir racial hatred once again. Absolutley toxic.
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