A Mississippi Walmart employee says she was fired in retaliation for posting a video of an interaction with a customer who rolled around a cart with her baby boy who ain’t have no clothes on but a diaper.
If you’re ever shopping in peace and suddenly hear someone shout, “Why them people got that baby outside with no clothes on?!” it was most certainly me or my mother appalled at a child being half-dressed in public. It seems Byram Walmart employee worker Felicia Nicole had the same reaction after noticing a woman strolling around the freezer section with a toddler in the car wearing nothing but a diaper. According to the Hindustan Times, the temperatures in the region were as low as 19 degrees this past weekend.
In a TikTok video, the woman is seen dressed appropriately for the weather in a sweater, jeans and boots but her child… well, just look.
Another employee is seen pulling a sweater over the child and one person off-camera says, “He can’t be here without that jacket on.” The woman, appearing unbothered, continues to throw food in the cart on the boy’s exposed legs when an older male customer confronts her.
“She’s throwing cold food on this child. What’s wrong with you? You’re crazy” he says. The two then get into a verbal confrontation and the woman behind the camera, presumably Nicole, says someone ought to call the police on the woman.
“Go ahead, somebody already called the police two times and I keep passing - we got hot water, fire extinguisher…” the woman said followed by a series of unintelligible words.
Nicole confirmed to the Hindustan Times that the police were called but it’s unclear what action was taken when they responded. However, she said she was ordered by her manager to take the videos of the incident down and when she refused, she was fired. In her Facebook post about the situation, she said she wasn’t worried about violating any policies in the moment. She was more concerned as to why that baby was in the store with no clothes on.
“I took it upon myself to record it for the child’s sake. No, I wasn’t thinking about the consequences at the time. At that time my main focus was on that innocent poor child, and to get him some help. Now, I’m jobless because I was only trying to help and save that baby life,” she told the outlet.