The Amazon.com, Inc. BHM1 fulfillment center is seen before sunrise on March 29, 2021, in Bessemer, Alabama. | Source: PATRICK T. FALLON / Getty
In the latest example of shameless corporate greed and a basic disregard for human rights, an Amazon warehouse initially denied a request for a leave of absence by an employee who was shot after being struck by the truck driven in the deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans.
Alexis Scott-Windham not only had her right foot run over by the pickup truck that plowed into a crowd on the heavily populated Bourbon Street but the 23-year-old Mobile, Alabama, resident was also subsequently shot in the same foot during the attack that killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more.
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“He was coming so fast, there wasn’t any time to move all the way out the way,” Scott-Windham told NOLA.com of the driver, identified by law enforcement as Shamsud-Din Jabbar . “I was just blessed that I only got shot in the foot and I made it back home.”