An Everett mother says she is filing suit against a Danvers farm and their employee after she was racially profiled during an apple picking visit.
Nicole Pepin said she visited Connor’s Farm with her sister, her friend and their children.
As the group left with apple bags, they claimed a female employee asked to check their strollers, covered in their own coats.
Pippin said no white families had their strollers checked. When her sister refused to have her stroller checked, the female employee allegedly called a male employee at the farm.
Pepijn explained: ‘He said, ‘I have to check your stroller. You’re stealing apples.’”
When the group again denied the allegations, Pippin claimed the male employee tried to stop them from leaving.
“He put his foot in front of the stroller and tried to block us,” she added. “[He] Pulled my stroller, pulled my arm and my sister yelled at him and said, ‘Don’t touch my baby.’
Pepijn said she blocked the employee from the rest of the group who were putting the children in the car.
A Danvers police report claims that the two were “chest to chest” during this altercation and were filming each other.
Pippin explained: “Once I said you’re racist, he grabbed the phone out of my hand, slammed the phone down and pushed me… I started hitting him back.”
The report claims the two were separated by a second Connor’s Farm employee. The police were able to receive statements from both sides.
Pepin told Boston on 25 Saturday that she will appear in court on November 8, filing charges against the employee, and filing discrimination charges against the farm.
She ended with, “We spent a lot of money there to be treated the way we were treated.”
Boston 25 has been contacting Connor’s farm all week and has not heard back.
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