10 Times Walmart Karens Faced Justice

Top 10 Times Walmart Karens Faced Justice

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the infamous moments where Karens and Kens, the most entitled and rudest folks, showcased their terrible behavior at Walmart stores, only to get some delicious consequences.

Dressing Room Racism

Captured on a video released in 2018, an older Walmart employee’s terrible behavior drew the ire of the public. It all came about because a customer wearing Islamic attire approached the employee seeking an available changing room. This seemingly innocent request annoyed the employee for some reason, so the Karen informed her she could use a dirty one. Then she loudly told a coworker, “They think they own us.” The Karen then attempted to creepily look under the door. Walmart commented on the horrendous Islamophobia and stated that the employee was no longer with the company.

Threatening Social Media

Some Karens think they can film themselves making vile threats online without suffering any consequences. Well, unfortunately for Sydney Angela Holder and Emily Elizabeth Cornett, that isn’t the case. In 2022, the two filmed a short social media video in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In it, Holder showcased a firearm concealed in her boot, uttered slurs, and threatened to use the weapon on black people in Walmart, all while Cornett laughed. Shortly after uploading the content, classmates approached the police to let them know who the culprits were. Holder and Cornett were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. On top of this, Shelton State Community College expelled the duo for their terrible threat.

Racist Licenses

In 2020, shoppers leaving a Walmart in Manitowoc, Wisconsin found fake hunting licenses for attacking black people had been placed under their vehicles’ windscreens. Complete with slurs, of course. Unfortunately for Cathleen Yauch, it didn’t take long for security footage to identify her as the culprit behind the notes. She was recognized by an employee after she stole from the store previously. After Yauch was arrested, she was charged with making threats as a hate crime and bail jumping. Due to a plea deal on reduced charges, in 2023, Yauch was sentenced to 90 days in jail, three years of probation, and 50 hours of community service, and was made to write apology letters to the victims.

Trump Chant

According to Banine Al-mosawi, she and her friend went into the changing rooms at a Walmart in Dearborn, Michigan, one night in 2018. The rooms should’ve been closed as it was past 10pm, but there was no sign stating that. This sparked an argument between the shoppers and a worker. The employee allegedly chanted Donald Trump’s name repeatedly at the duo. When asked why she was doing that by Al-mosawi, the worker used anti-Arabian insults and slurs. However, Al-mosawi’s friend also threw in some racial slurs at the employee. It was a mess. After the video went onto social media, Walmart fired the worker for her behavior.

Cart Attack

In 2023, while battling cancer, Janice Lambert went to Walmart with her two grandchildren in The Colony, Texas. As she was picking up some grapes, she was struck by a shopping cart driven by Francis Clark, injuring her leg and hip. The shopping Karen told Lambert she shouldn’t be there and her grandchildren are supposedly hoarding the fruit. Lambert believes the unprovoked attack was triggered by the color of her skin. Even when Lambert tried to get away, Clark stalked the family around the store. In the end, the cops arrived, and Clark was arrested and charged with assault against an elderly or disabled person.

False Accusation

In the modern age, video evidence can be super important in settling disputes. In 2021, Anternitia O'Neal was using the self-checkout at her local Walmart in Colerain, Ohio. But then a Karen employee popped up and accused O’Neal of stealing, seemingly believing the customer wasn’t scanning every item. Well, she was, as security and management later saw on the CCTV. O’Neal, who is Black and believed she was being racially profiled managed to record part of the event on her phone and uploaded it to social media. Angry viewers formed a protest soon afterward. Walmart announced that they had fired the employee. However, it wasn't for racial profiling but for not following procedure…right.

More Walmart Profiling

In 2022, a customer who didn’t want to be identified was leaving a Walmart in Moreno Valley, California, with a shopping cart of goods. However, he was stopped by an unidentified employee who decided to do some racial profiling to check whether the customer paid. Before he could grab his receipt, the venomous worker allegedly told him, “You people always trying to steal.” Then, while uttering several slurs, the Ken worker grabbed items from the cart to take back, just assuming they were pinched due to the color of his skin! Another yikes. Once the footage of the interaction got out, Walmart justly fired the terrible worker.

Triple Threat

Usually, Kens and Karens specialize in one form of terrible behavior. But not Daniel Scanlan, who went with a trifecta of hostility at a Walmart in Boca Raton, Florida, in 2023 with theft, antisemitism, and assault. First, he struck an older Jewish man from behind, grabbed his Yarmulke, spat on it, threw it to the ground, used a slur, and then hit him again. When another woman tried to intervene, Scanlan took her phone and knocked her to the ground. He then threw the phone onto the floor before he left. Scanlan was soon arrested and charged with robbery and battery on a person over 65 years of age. However, it could be reclassified as a hate crime.

Ignorant in Walmart

In 2017, Eva Hicks needed to grab some medicine from an aisle at a Walmart in Centerton, Arkansas. However, a woman was standing in the way with her cart, so Hicks asked her nicely to move. It should’ve been easy, right? Apparently not. The red racist mist covered the Karen’s eyes. After ranting about being asked to move constantly by other customers, the Karen told Hicks to “Go back to Mexico.” When a passerby yelled she was being ignorant, Karen spat out a slur. Then, the store manager came over and told the Karen to leave for her horrid tirade. In the aftermath, Walmart publicly banned the grim woman from entering any of their stores.

Mother-Son Tag Team

In 2015, Navy veteran Rebecca Mills, who had fibromyalgia and substance use disorder, was using her scooter in a Walmart in Beech Grove, Indiana. After Mills argued with an employee over blocking the way as they stocked the shelves, Amber Stephenson confronted her, and they began fighting. Later, Stephenson claimed Mills used a slur against the worker. However, the employee disagreed. Regardless, Mills and Stephenson infamously came to blows in the aisle. Shockingly, Stephenson even encouraged her young son to attack Mills! In 2017, Stephenson was sentenced for neglect and received a year of probation and 30 hours of community service. Mills received a suspended jail sentence of 180 days and 40 hours of community service, and she later turned her life around.

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