Man pulls gun on group of Muslims, gets arrested

Law enforcement arrested a man Wednesday afternoon after a Monday night incident where he allegedly pulled a gun on four Muslim teenagers – three of whom are black - at McDonald's in southwest Minneapolis.
Despite Lloyd Edward Johnson, 55, allegedly brandishing a weapon before a Twitter video shows him stepping outside, the store manager can be seen shouting for the youngsters to leave before a bystander demands she calls law enforcement.



Farida Osman, 16, Jihan Abdullahi, Amal Mohammed, 17, and Zainab Hassan stopped at the fast food restaurant for something to eat when the gun-wielding suspect allegedly initiated trouble by making derogatory comments aimed at a black girl in the group.
The girl in the group had been having trouble using a new method of payment at the restaurant so stepped out of line when a staff member asked to serve the next customer.



But when the group - some of whom covered their hair with hijabs - stepped back in line to use another person's payment, Johnson made a snide remark assuming she was transferring benefits to the retailer that were given to her by the government.



'Jihan heard the man say, 'You're probably using EBT,' Farida Osman told Muslim Girl. 'And she immediately turned to him and said, 'Just because I'm black, doesn't mean I use EBT.'
Osman – who is of Somali heritage - claims that the Minnesota group confronted him about his view they deemed to be coming from stereotypes after he had been complaining in the lead-up to his comment.
The man was arrested Wednesday for 2nd degree assault