Friday, March 29, 2024

Amanda Seales Nearly Came to Blows with Woman At Target Over Social Distancing

Amanda Seales

*For her latest Small Doses podcast, Amanda Seales caught up with friend and “Insecure” creator Issa Rae to dish about how they are coping during the coronavirus pandemic.

During the conversation, Seales recalled a recent shipping moment at Target in her hometown of Orlando, and how she nearly came to blows with a woman for not social-distancing, MadameNoire reports. 

“There’s no polite way to create distance and I think that’s what I get frustrated with,” Amanda said. “I don’t want to have to do that, but then I was at a Target and this woman was like standing so close to me. I was like, ‘Ma’am, can you please give me some space?’ She was like, ‘You got a ruler? You got a ruler?’ I was like, ‘I have a mask and gloves. As you can see, I’m not about this life.’ She was like, ‘I should spit on you!’ It escalated so quickly. My homegirl was on FaceTime like, ‘Yooooooo!’”

Amanda then noted that the woman would fit in the “high risk” category because she was equipped with a chest tube. 

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“She had a chest tube in and literally was like, ‘You could give it to me! You could give it to me!’ I was like, ‘Yo! Why are you playing with your life?’”

Amanda said her observation only made the woman more upset.

“Then she leveled up. You know me. I have a point,” she said. “I definitely was like, ‘B—h, I wish you would spit on me!’ Then she said, ‘I should shank you.’ We’re in an aisle and that’s when I yelled, ‘So you’re going to shank me in the Target!?’ Her husband is standing there, I was like, ‘Yo, get your wife! Get your wife!’ Then they came over and escorted her out. She was trying to fight me. She was the size of — to my shoulder. She was really trying to fight me. I’m like, ‘Ma’am.’ She’s like, ‘Oh you scared now?’ I was like, ‘I was scared before! I didn’t want you close to me before.’”

Target employees intervened so the incident wasn’t allowed to escalate .

“What was trippy was how well they responded, the people at Target, because this keeps happening,” she said. “Because of the anxiety.”

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