Ajaco Towing Recovery, a towing company in New Jersey, lost its government contract with the town of Parsippany-Troy Hills because an employee of the company was found to call another man n-word in the video, which is a racist slander.
In the video, post to Instagram A user named mr_str8money, the police told a white Ajaco employee to enter his office building while he yelled at the man who was recording the video.
“Get out of my property!” the employee shouted. “Let him leave here. Let him leave here,” he told the police repeatedly.
“Take a picture of you. Post it on your butt,” the employee yelled to the person who recorded the video. “I will put down that bastard,” the employee told the police while pointing to the video recorder. “Come on. Come on, pull the race card,” he told the tape recorder.
The man who recorded the video said, “You threatened me in front of the police.”
The employee replied: “I threatened you. Sucking my ass. How does this sound? I can say anything I want. Do you know why I can? Free speech.”
When employees began to re-enter the building, he said: “Fuck [n-word].”
The recorder said, “Wow! He called me [n-word]. He called me one [n-word]…. Now it starts. What I saw on the camera… If this is not racial profiling, what is it? “
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According to WNBC, the man who recorded the video was towed away after the accident. Jason Cleffi, the owner of Ajaco, said that when the man came to Ajaco to pick up the car, he allegedly spent an hour nearby and started arguing with employees after being unable to pay the towing fee.
The man who recorded the video then left and returned with the police. At this moment, the controversy escalated. Clefy said that the man who recorded the video subsequently threatened the employee.
The person posting the video on Instagram included paperwork, which seemed to indicate that he paid to get his car back. Ajaco employees have been suspended because the company is investigating the incident. Morris County Log Report.
“The two people got into a heated argument that shouldn’t have happened,” Clive told the aforementioned news media. “I take this very seriously. I must apologize for the actions of my employees, and I must apologize to anyone who has to be affected. I cannot tolerate this situation.”
After watching the video, Parsippany-Troy Mountain Town and Parsippany police The department decided not to use Ajaco Towing, effective immediately, the town government wrote on it Facebook Page.
The town’s Facebook post said: “The use of racist language by anyone working for or with the town is unforgivable and will never be allowed.” The town immediately removed the company from the list of trailer companies used for municipal purposes delete.
The Parsippany police is also conducting an internal review to ensure that its officers respond appropriately in the incident.
According to the US Census, the town of Parsippany-Troy Hills is 58.3% white and 3.7% black.
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