NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A software company fired a woman after she was accused of telling a Black couple to “stay in [their] hood” during an altercation at a Brooklyn dog park.
Frederick Joseph, who is Black, filmed a video at McCarren Park in Williamsburg on Saturday in which he claimed a woman told him and his fiancé to “stay in our hood.”
“At the dog park in Brooklyn with my fiancé and this white woman was threatening to call police and told us to ‘stay in our hood’ because she had our dog confused with another dog who had been barking loudly,” Joseph tweeted. “So, I started recording and she tried to slap the phone out my hand.”
In the video he filmed, Joseph can be heard asking the woman about what she allegedly said.
“You just left the dog park to tell us to stay in our hood?” he asks.
“Oh my God, did you just say that to me? S--t,” the woman responds.
“I’m sorry, you were right here and watched this whole thing. Did she not just stand here and tell us to stay in our hood?” Joseph asks a bystander.
“She did,” the bystander responds.
The woman was an employee at software company Bevy, the New York Post reported. On Sunday, Bevy’s co-founder and CEO, Derek Andersen, tweeted that she had been fired.
“.@BevyHQ has zero tolerance for discriminatory behavior of any kind. Yesterday an employee engaged in behavior contrary to our values and has been terminated. We apologize deeply to all involved,” Andersen wrote.
“I personally hope some type of resolution can happen between the two parties beyond this and will help if I can,” he added.