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Hollywood Costume Designer Fired After Racist Rant at CVS

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Oct 02, 2019
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A Hollywood costume designer lost her job after a video went viral of her screaming racial epithets and about her desire to kill Black people at a Los Angeles CVS.

Heather Lynn Patton, who is white, was yelling the “N-word” and threatening to kill Black people in a short clip shared on social media. “I would kill a [N-word] but the law says I can’t kill …

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