N-word costs $150
One man who decided to use a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2326 learned a costly lesson.
The man called a Passaic Public Works employee the N-word, and that’s when the worker got even.
Department of Public Works employee Aregawi Kishen says he took his complaint to a judge to make a point.
“The N-word is a word that comes with a negative affect,” he said.
He hopes the Clifton man who called him by the racial slur back in September got more than the $150 fine. He hopes he also learned a permanent lesson.
Kishen says he doesn’t know how the encounter digressed in the first place. He said he had his truck parked on the corner of Washington and Hoover streets. He doesn’t even think the truck was blocking the man’s car.But he says the man jumped out and hit him with a barrage of racial slurs.
“He got angry and he called me a million names, and finally the N-word,” Kishen said.
Passaic joined that surging nationwide effort last year to ban the N-word. But to be fined for using it? Passaic mayor Sammy Rivera, who appointed the judge who leveled the fine, agreed with the action.
“At least fined,” he said. “It’s everybody’s city, everybody’s country.”
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