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Ma’Kiya Congious showed up for her shift Tuesday morning at the Brentwood Stair Whataburger wearing a Black Lives Matter mask. It was the same one she had worn on Friday with no issues, she said. But after a customer complained, according to Congious, management condemned her wearing of the mask, leading her to ask about resigning and management to call the police on her.

Congious, 19, was working curbside pickup Tuesday. She had bought the Black Lives Matter mask last week at a shop in Meadowbrook and received compliments from customers on Friday and Tuesday. Even before she started wearing the mask a customer who came nearly every day would tell her, Congious said, “‘You remember Black lives matter and you stay safe.’”

But in the early afternoon Tuesday she said she took an order to a white woman who then asked for the customer service phone number.

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