Officials in San Diego County are condemning a man who was pictured wearing a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) hood while shopping at a supermarket, one day after the city implemented a new coronavirus health order requiring everyone to cover their faces when entering a business, according to
the Los Angeles Times.
Pictures of the man wearing the white hood while shopping inside a Vons store in the San Diego County city of Santee began circulating on social media over the weekend. At least one photo also shows the man, who appears to be white and middle-aged, standing behind a cart without a hood.
A corporate spokeswoman for the grocery store told the Los Angeles Times that employees repeatedly asked the shopper to remove the hood or leave the store.
When a supervisor asked the man once he was in a checkout line to take off the hood or leave, the man removed the hood, purchased his items and left the store.
“This was a disturbing incident for our associates and customers, and we are reviewing with our team how to best handle such inappropriate situations in the future,” Melissa Hill, a spokeswoman for Vons, told the LA Times.
The incident has prompted outrage from the mayor, the head of the Anti-Defamation League in San Diego and others.
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