Family Dollar says the store is owned by Dollar Express. Dollar Express hasn't responded to a request for comment.
Sarah SafiSarah Safi, 32, started recording the incident on her cell phone after she entered a Family Dollar store in Gary, Indiana and was almost immediately asked to leave. In the video, one can hear Safi ask the store's manager, "You're telling me I have to leave this store?"
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The manager, who said her name was Jaime, is then heard replying, "Yes ma'am, if you can't remove that from your face I need you to leave the store." When Safi tried to reason with her, the manager threatened to "have police remove her."
Jaime, the store manager, asked Sarah Safi to leave if she did not remove her veil."I'm the manager, and I'm telling you to leave my store," she continued. Safi reminded her that it was a free country which not only believed in but upheld the principle of religious freedom. However, the woman was unmoved.
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Safi later told ABC 7 News in an interview she was "really saddened" by the incident. "I was born here, raised here all my life and I've never been to an establishment and been treated like this," she said. "I would like to sit with her and speak to her about what I believe in, because maybe if she heard and really listened to what I believe in it would open her heart," the woman said.
Family Dollar store in Gary, Indiana where the incident occured.This article originally appeared on Daily Mail.
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