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Police Are Investigating An Incident At A Minnesota McDonald’s Where A Man Reportedly Pulled A Gun On A Group Of Muslim Teens

<p>Authorities in the town of &num;EdenPrairie&comma; Minnesota&comma; are looking into an incident in which a group of Somali teens were reportedly being harassed by a white man who they said then pulled a gun on them when he was confronted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The incident&comma; which took place Monday night&comma; was captured in a now viral video and has left many outraged&period; In the video&comma; when the visibly shaken teens tell the restaurant’s manager about the man with the gun&comma; she orders them to leave anyway&period; Another patron argues with the manager&comma; telling her she should be calling the police instead of kicking the teens out of the establishment&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Don’t just send them out there when the dude just pulled a f&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;g gun out on them&comma;” said the customer&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The 17-year-old girl involved&comma; Jihan Abdullahi&comma; told the &commat;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;startribune&period;com&sol;young-mcdonald-s-patrons-in-eden-prairie-allege-man-pulled-gun-after-he-was-shoved&sol;500940452&sol;">StarTribune<&sol;a> she was trying to order on the app and it wasn’t working&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Once we gave up on paying&comma; we just canceled the order&comma;” Abdullahi continued&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;and as &lbrack;we&rsqb; are walking away&comma; the man says under his breath&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;You were paying with EBT&semi; that’s why it didn’t work&period;’ ”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Abdullahi said she responded&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; &OpenCurlyQuote;Just because I’m black you think my friends and I live under EBT&quest;’ And he reportedly said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Yes&period;’ ” As other young people stepped in&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The man pulls out his gun and begins to say&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Whoa&comma; whoa&comma;’ and everyone backs up&comma; and he runs out the door&comma;” Abdullahi said&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In the video&comma; the man somewhat backs up and out of the door&comma; which is when the teens are seen quickly backing away from him and several people shouted that the man was holding a gun&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">A police report said the man allegedly pulled the firearm from his waistband&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Police have yet to say whether they know the identity of the man and whether he had a state-issued permit allowing him to carry a firearm in public&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Officers obtained video evidence and witness statements from the scene&comma; and police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident to determine if a crime was committed&comma;” according to a statement released by city officials&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ll keep you updated on the latest&comma; 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