It started as a mix-up at a Speedway gas pump. But by the time it was over, a white cashier falsely accused a Black customer of trying to pull one over on her and take his money back.

The tense exchange, captured on video and now viral on Instagram, unfolded against the backdrop of an anti-diversity movement that was being stoked by the highest levels of government, and in a country where Black people have increasingly turned to filming such encounters as protection against being lied about later.

The footage picks up with the argument already in progress. The customer asked the woman to “call your manager,” while she insisted, “I cannot do anything about it.”

“I just told you, I paid for that gas. My son forgot …” the man began to explain, but before he could finish, the cashier cut hi

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