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I had the police called on me when I was simply trying to use the restroom.
I’m an uber driver and had just done a 3 and a half hour trip to drop someone off in Huntsville. My stomach was in shambles so i stopped by the 5900 University Dr NW location in Huntsville, Al after dropping off my passenger to use the restroom and buy a sprite afterwards. I was in there for 30 minutes before the Huntsville police barged into the restroom saying that management called the police on me claiming I’d been there for 3 hours and that they wanted me to leave. I got up to leave , still not done handling my business, and left the bathroom and the officer is immediately asking me for my name and DOB , screaming at me in front of the entire restaurant and not even trying to hear me out. He even threatened to arrest me simply bc I didn’t want to give my DOB when i’d done NOTHING wrong.
The manager walks over and , instructed by the officer, tells me i’m banned from the store forever. I told him to check those cameras as there’s no way I’ve been there for 3 hours and left the store to go outside with the officer who continued to try to get more information from me. Right when the officer tried to dig more into the life, the manager and another worker comes outside saying that they made a mistake and that i’m the wrong person. They said the person was a skinny blonde white woman. Completely different from how i look as i’m a thick black woman. The officer said “ there appears to have been a miscommunication “ , doesn’t apologize for ego tripping and not listening to me and yelling at me while the manager gives out a few whimpy apologies.
This was an extremely frustrating, HUMILIATING, and hurtful experience to have gone through at Whataburger. This situation was handled completely wrong. Even if i was in the restroom for 3 hours, why would your immediate reaction to be to call the police instead of checking to see if I was okay first or even asking me yourself to leave first before calling the trigger happy, ego tripping police in the prejudice city of Huntsville, AL . Not to mention how i look nothing like the person they claimed to have been in there for 3 hours. Something needs to be done about this. Not only will I never visit this whataburger again but i will never spend my money at ANY whataburger. Everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves. That could’ve left me in a really messed up situation. This if my life were talking about. I got in the car and couldn’t stop crying tears of frustration, confusion and humiliation.
This was Dec 23, 2024 around 8pm. This entire situation caused me emotional distress and trauma on top of not being able to finish relieving myself. Something needs to be done about this.