re: White Macy’s employee viciously beaten by black customer (NSFW language)

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The Macy’s employee brutally beaten inside a Michigan mall is requesting leniency for his attacker — who testified this week that his brother falsely claimed the store manager called him a racial slur.

Damire Palmer, 18, pleaded guilty Wednesday to the caught-on-video June 15 attack at the Flint store, local outlet WJRT-TV reported.

But Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said the Macy’s employee, who is still dealing with the trauma of the assault, declined to take the stand.

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The teen explained that just before the attack, he had asked the Macy’s employee a question “about the jacket type that I was about to get.”

After the manager replied, the teen’s brother told him the worker called him the n-word, he claimed. He has since learned that his brother made up that account.

Palmer said he “wouldn’t know” why his brother would do such a thing, according to the report.

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