LI Target Shopper Confronts Worker For BLM Mask: Video

SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY — A store employee at a Long Island Target said she was recently confronted by a customer who disapproved of her wearing a "Black Lives Matter" face mask — and made a point to let her know it.

"She started by saying, 'You know all lives matter right?' I then agreed and said, 'All lives can’t matter till Black lives matter,'" the store employee, identified only as Tana, said in a social media post about the encounter, which she said happened Thursday.

According to the employee, who works at the Selden store in Suffolk County, the customer went on to say that the mask offended her and that she needed to remove it.

"I told her 'No, that I am allowed to wear my mask, and it's my freedom of speech,'" Tana said.

Other staff noticed the confrontation and stepped in to diffuse the situation, the employee said. Her managers then separated her from the customer and security stepped in to tell the customer to leave.

Tana recently posted video of the encounter with the customer on her Instagram page. The video, which was shot by her boyfriend, has since been viewed more than 44,500 times. In the video, the customer is asked by Target staff to leave the store for "disturbing business." The customer, however, denies causing any trouble.

"No one’s disturbing business," the customer told Target staff. "I'm talking, and she was yapping at me, and it's okay. It was tit for tat ... I'm telling you that I'm Jewish, and my ancestors were also slaves, and in the concentration camps. So it's not black lives, it's everybody's. What about the Chinese? What about the Mexicans? What about everybody else in the world?"

In the video, management listens as the customer films the confrontation outside the store.

"You know there is a lot of black people that are f------ disgusting and everything else, but you know what, there are a lot of whites that are gross," the customer is heard saying on camera. "You sat there and called me a bigot. If you knew me, you know that I do not lie. I am brutally honest."

The woman is then told to leave the premises before law enforcement is called.

"I'm going to ask you to leave one more time, and if I have to ask again, I have to call the police,” management is heard saying in the video.

Target told NBC News it "wants everyone who shops and works at Target to feel welcomed and respected."

A spokesperson for the Suffolk Police Department told the network that it was aware of the video.

"The incident was reported to police on June 29 and is under investigation," the spokesperson said.

Warning: graphic language below