Louisiana convenience store worker is FIRED after she uploaded video of herself hurling huge bucket of water over homeless woman sitting outside the shop during 26 degree weather
- A shocking video shows the moment that a convenience store worker poured cold water over a homeless woman amid frigid temperatures in Louisiana
- The woman, Kasey Young, 44, has been fired from her job
- The gas station is the same store where Alton Sterling was killed by Baton Rouge cops in 2016
- A former colleague of Young’s said that she has a good relationship with the homeless community and must have just lost her temper
A shocking video showing a Louisiana gas station clerk hurling a giant bucket of water at a homeless person in freezing 26 degree weather has resulted in the worker being fired.
The clip was uploaded by the convenience store worker in question, Kasey Young, 44. The shocking incident occurred at the Triple S Food Mart on Foster Drive in Baton Rouge on December 26.
The video begins showing Young walking around the outside of the store with a bucket in her hands. A man’s voice can be heard walking alongside her, recording the action.
After she throws the water, Young says: ‘Move! Not telling y’all again. Move it! Clean this s*** the f*** up.’ A voice can be heard replying to Young: ‘I’m doing it!’
She goes on: ‘I’m sick of this s***. Y’all got my whole f****ing floor looking like a…’ The man’s voice tells another homeless person to: ‘Get out of the parking lot.’
By December 27, the store’s owner, Abdul Muflahi, said publicly that Young had been terminated. He said in a press conference: ‘When I got the news, I didn’t speak to the employee too much. All I told her was to leave the property because we do not handle situations like that.’
In a tragic coincidence the Triple S store is the same location where Alton Sterling was controversially shot-and-killed by Baton Rouge police officers after he was accused of waving a gun around while illegally selling CDs on the premises.
In February 2021, the city of East Baton Rouge agreed to pay Sterling’s family $4.5 million after settling a wrongful death suit.
As of December 27, Young has been fired from her job at the Triple S Food Mart
Prior to her firing, Young regularly posted photos and videos showing her working behind the counter at Triple S
The moment when Kasey Young flung cold water on a homeless person amid 26 degree weather
The video begins showing Young walking around the outside of the store with a bucket in her hands. A man’s voice can be heard walking alongside her, recording the action
A separate statement from local activists said that the homeless woman ‘will not be sleeping on the streets tonight. The white store employee, Kasey Young, has been fired and charges filed for simple battery that she will receive a summons for’
After she throws the water, Young says: ‘Move! Not telling y’all again. Move it! Clean this s*** the f*** up.’ A voice can be heard replying to Young: ‘I’m doing it!
Young regularly posts videos to her Facebook showing her at work. Just hours before the controversial video, Young posted a video in which she spoke about her love of gummy bear candy.
Speaking at the same press conference, activist, Larry McGriffin said: ‘For someone to get ice cold water thrown on them in these below-freezing temperatures is just disrespectful. It also could’ve hurt this person physically.’
An employee of the Triple S Food Mart told WAFB that Young was known for feeding homeless people in the area and that she just lost her temper on the morning in question.
Ron Ceaser speaks at a prayer vigil in the parking lot of the Triple S Market on the one year anniversary of killing of Alton Sterling in 2017
In a statement on the incident, Mayor Sharon Weston Broome said that the homeless person in question had been located by officials brought to a shelter
In a statement on the incident, Mayor Sharon Weston Broome said that the homeless person in question had been located by officials brought to a shelter.
A separate statement from local activists said that the homeless woman ‘will not be sleeping on the streets tonight. The white store employee, Kasey Young, has been fired and charges filed for simple battery that she will receive a summons for.’
On Christmas Day, a 57-year-old homeless man named Charles Wilson Ligon Jr. was found dead in the Baton Rouge area.
Blinding blizzards, freezing rain and frigid cold that stretched from Maine to Seattle over the holiday weekend is blamed for at least 64 deaths across the country.
The National Weather Service says about 60 percent of the U.S. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning during the widespread Arctic Blast.
Additionally, in the Deep South cold weather has upended water systems after days of freezing temperatures. As temperatures plummeted in the days leading up to Christmas Day, homeless shelters in Baton Rouge announced that they had expanded hours and bed capacity.