*A hospital employee captured on video calling a black woman the N-word has been fired after his name and place of employment were tracked via black Twitter.
The man in the viral video was revealed as Kyle Thomas, a radiology tech at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. Dressed in his work scrubs, he was shown screaming at Donut Palace employee Keaundrea Wardlaw Saturday in the store’s Flowood location.
“I hope you don’t deal with children,” says Wardlow in the footage shared Sunday by activist Shaun King.
“Shut your f***ing mouth,” responds Thomas. “Who are you talking to?” Wardlaw responds.
After Thomas tells her to “Shut up,” Wardlaw calls him a “Son of a b****.”
Thomas then says, “You’re a ‘N****” several times as he leaves the store. Wardlaw follows him to his car and snaps a photo of his license plate.
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Once the footage went viral, Twitter went to work, eventually finding out his name and place of employment. Hours later, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center spokesman Ayoka Pond released the following statement:
We are aware of the confrontation captured on video involving one of our off-duty employees at a local doughnut shop. We take this situation very seriously. This employee’s language and behavior does not represent our organization’s values and his employment has been terminated.
We want our patients, employees, physicians and our community to know that we find the language used in the video to be completely unacceptable and inconsistent with what we expect from employees or anyone associated with our organization. We are committed to a work environment that is inclusive and where everyone is respected and valued.
UPDATE: Kyle Thomas, a radiology tech at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center has been fired.
Listen to me racist white people.
Your President may get away with saying whatever he wants but those rules don’t extend to you. We will track you down and hold you accountable. https://t.co/bTD7BOFW94
— Shaun King (@shaunking) August 12, 2018
Thomas, a 35-year-old Brandon, Miss. resident, deleted his Facebook account, but not before posting an apology: “I am so sorry, there is nothing I can say that will change what I said. I drove back up there and tried to apologize and she had gone. I regret every word that I said there is no excuse to ever say these horrible things. I only hope that by me sharing a public apology in this incident you could show me some grace. I was upset about another issue and it spilled over into this and I can’t apologize enough.”
Wardlaw, meanwhile, told Jackson, Miss., news station WJTV that Thomas did return to the shop to apologize to her boss for “causing a disruption,” but did not address her. If he were to apologize to her, she says, she would accept it. Wardlaw also said she did not want Thomas to be fired from his job.
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