“I’m down for randomly killing white people, Rs,” Pace had posted. (Rs is sometimes used as an abbreviation for “real [expletive],” to mean someone is serious.) “I’ll gladly walk into a pet store or Starbucks and just start bussin,” she wrote Thursday, adding two smiley faces.
Home Depot was slammed on social media over the weekend after a Plano woman who claimed to be an employee posted on Facebook that she was “down for randomly killing white people” in response to last week’s massacre of nine black people at a Charleston, S.C., church.
But the woman, Patrice Pace, 23, who is black, says she doesn’t actually work for Home Depot and was just joking on her personal page among her friends. The national chain said it can’t find “any evidence” that Pace has ever worked there.
She said Sunday that she didn’t know why she picked Home Depot. It was just random, she said.
“Same reason it says I live in Jamaica, like, I don’t know,” she said. “I’m pretty sure Home Depot’s getting plenty of phone calls and looking through their employee list looking for Patrice Pace.”
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