Franklin Richardson, a National Guard sergeant who just returned from a 9-month deployment to the Middle East, and his wife Jessica decided to take their dog and have a picnic at Oktibbeha County Lake in Mississippi, a site run by Kampgrounds of America. No sooner had they gotten lakeside than a truck pulled up and a white woman emerged from the vehicle with a gun in her hand - finger on the trigger, according to Jessica Richardson. She started yelling at them that she was a campground employee, repeatedly saying that they "didn't belong" and needed to "git!", and that reservations were required to use the lake. Jessica took out her phone and the video has gone viral.
Franklin Richardson at the time was incensed at being threatened with the gun, saying that he had been unaware that reservations were required and the employee would've only had to say as much to move them along, but that preemptively pulling a gun on them - particularly over such a trifle - was utterly out of line.
But it turns out that the employee wasn't even right; as the Richardsons were leaving the campground they came across another employee - the first employee's husband it turned out (the pair manage the campground as a husband-and-wife team) - who immediately told them that they didn't need any reservations to use the lake at all, a fact later confirmed by a statement from KOA proper saying that visitors are merely encouraged to register upon arrival.
The employee who pulled a gun on the Richardsons has been fired by KOA.
Franklin Richardson at the time was incensed at being threatened with the gun, saying that he had been unaware that reservations were required and the employee would've only had to say as much to move them along, but that preemptively pulling a gun on them - particularly over such a trifle - was utterly out of line.
But it turns out that the employee wasn't even right; as the Richardsons were leaving the campground they came across another employee - the first employee's husband it turned out (the pair manage the campground as a husband-and-wife team) - who immediately told them that they didn't need any reservations to use the lake at all, a fact later confirmed by a statement from KOA proper saying that visitors are merely encouraged to register upon arrival.
The employee who pulled a gun on the Richardsons has been fired by KOA.
via International Skeptics Forum http://bit.ly/2I5BR7p
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