Authorities are looking for an unidentified, middle-aged man wearing a red MAGA cap after he pulled a gun at employees of RJ’s Bob-Be-Que Shack restaurant in Mission, Kansas because he was asked to wear a mask, something required by June 29 executive order issued by the state’s Democratic Governor Laura Kelly, the Kansas City Star reports.
When a 17-year-old employee named Arlo Kinsey told the man that the customer needed to wear a mask, the man said he had an exemption to the governor’s order, lifted up his shirt and revealed a gun in the holster upon his hip, according to the Kansas City Star.
Kinsey interpreted the man’s gesture as a threat and wondered if the man was actually going to shoot him.
“All we’re asking is that you wear a mask for a couple of minutes,” Kinsey told the publication. “We could have taken your order outside if you didn’t want to. But you go into an air-conditioned area without a mask on, and if I tell you to wear one, you’re going to shoot me? Wow. I make $8.50 an hour, plus tips—for this?”
Kinsey went into the back kitchen area and told the restaurant owner, Bob Palmgren, what had transpired. Palmgren then walked to the front counter to confront the man.
Palmgren, who said he likes Trump, claimed that he got into an escalating back-and-forth with the man, eventually telling him, “Everybody’s got problems. But it doesn’t make a difference. You don’t have a mask on…. Your gun’s not going to kill coronavirus, now get the hell out of here.”
The man left before he could be identified. But surveillance cameras captured the man’s image on video. Police are investigating the incident, according to the report.
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