#DiningWhileBlack: Student waiting to order forced away by food truck co-owner
Sadly, Kevin Raysor’s racist experience joins the ranks of many other incidents that have seen Black people defending themselves from cops while doing everyday tasks.
A Portland eatery is getting slammed after a Black customer said he was discriminated against by the co-owner of Chicken & Guns food truck as he waited for restaurant to open so he could grab a bite to eat before taking a final exam, Eater.com reports.
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Kevin Raysor, claimed food truck co-owner Dustin Knox, a white man, summoned for a cop to remove him from the premises and said that Raysor was “loitering” and homeless. Raysor’s friend Jason Keebler shared the story on social media, saying it was racist and it went viral.
“I was asked to leave the food court on the corner of Hawthorne for no reason… He said I was homeless and loitering… What I was doing was waiting for [Chicken & Guns] to open so I could eat before my final [exam]s,” Raysor said.
Sadly, Raysor’s racist experience joins the ranks of many other incidents that have seen Black people defending themselves for doing everyday tasks after having the cops called on them by a white person.
Raysor said Knox did in fact wave an officer over his way and asked that he remove him from the front of his property. Raysor said the cop was “polite.”
Others came forward on a NextDoor thread to confirm Raysor’s story.
A witness, Gina Carlton said she saw Knox harassing “a man of color” within the pod.
“Dustin started yelling at him, ‘if you don’t get out of here, I will snap your dog’s neck’,” she wrote.
Another person who commented said Knox has a history is discriminating against people of color and shared an incident where his Asian girlfriend was harassed by Knox.
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“My girlfriend, who is Asian, was hanging out there one night this past winter,” said user user Alex Williams. “She was approached by the owner, who immediately asked if she was homeless, then told her to leave.”
Keebler has since removed the post after the tremendous response.
“Earlier I had a post up about a food cart that hassled my friend Kevin Raysor. He’s asked me to take it down so I have privated the post,” he writes.
“I know this will disappoint some people.. but (sic) The same friend that I put it up to support asked me to take it down.”
But people in support of Raysor have taken the issue directly to cart’s Facebook page.
Temporary public information officer Sergeant Peter Simpson said they don’t have a record of the reported call and admitted it’s hard to trace such a call without a direct cell number.
Chicken & Guns have yet to address the incident publicly.
