Oklahoma woman, 71, arrested after slapping and racially abusing teen over 'crazy bread'
ENID, OKLAHOMA: A woman was arrested and charged after she allegedly harassed a 17-year-old employee at Little Caesar’s Pizza and called him racial slurs over "crazy bread." According to the affidavit, on March 30, Rachel Scheuerman, 71, entered a Little Caesar’s Pizza at 1725 W. Garriott and went through the drive-thru to order two pizzas and one crazy bread. The teen victim told Scheuerman they were out of crazy bread and she allegedly got angry. Two weeks later, Scheuerman was charged with a “malicious harassment based upon race” misdemeanor, which is punishable by imprisonment for up to one year and/or a fine of up to $1,000.
Scheuerman shouted, "Are you serious!" She reportedly asked the victim, "Do you want a diploma?" He answered yes and the suspect reportedly said "Listen here, (n-word)" According to court documents, Scheuerman then asked the teen, “Did that hurt you?” When the teen replied, “no” she got out of her van and slapped him across the face. Just last month Colton Norsworthy, a White Florida man, was captured on tape threatening to lynch a Black Popeyes employee while using the n-word.
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On March 31 at approximately 2:30 am, the Enid Police Department interrogated Scheuerman. When asked about what happened at Little Caesar’s Pizza, the suspect said she was "joking around with the kid, you know how it is," the affidavit says. Earlier she had told the store manager after the incident: “I harassed him like I always do.” Scheuerman was then made aware that there was a recording of the incident, the victim had himself recorded it and submitted it to the police. It was then that she admitted to slapping the employee and she said she called the victim the "n-word" only one time.
The Garfield County District Attorney, Michael Fields, told Ronald Skip Kelly, the victim's attorney that the Enid police could not arrest Scheuerman, because officers did not witness the misdemeanor with their own eyes. Fields said officers had to pass the case off to the DA, so prosecutors could conduct their own interviews before getting an approved arrest warrant through the courts. “They had the video. The Police Department had it. Little Caesar’s had it,” said Kelly. “How many people do you have to talk about when you see the person, that is now the defendant, doing everything that the victim said happened to him.”
Kelly said “He’s shocked and he’s traumatized. To intimidate and traumatize a child is about as low as you can go.” “This young man did the best that he could do to control himself and wait until he got home to tell his parents what had happened to him,” said Kelly. “What was more painful to him was the fact that it took so long for anything to be addressed in reference to this,” he added.
“These types of cases would not have taken that long if the parties would have been reversed," “No one should get the privilege to violate somebody else’s space, somebody else’s body, somebody else’s rights," he added.