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Denzel Skinner, a longtime Taco Bell employee in Youngstown, Ohio was trying to make sure he was keeping himself and the store’s customers safe by donning the required mask while working.

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As reported by WKBN, while store policy required that he wear the mask the company provided, Skinner says he couldn’t breathe in that one.

But the mask had a Black Lives Matter graphic on it and Skinner was told that he’d be fired for wearing it.

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Skinner, a night manager at the store who’d been there for eight years, knew that Taco Bell didn’t have a policy about what was written on the mask, as long as he was wearing one.

While our policies at restaurants do not prohibit Team Members from wearing Black Lives Matter masks, we are working to clarify our mask policy so this doesn’t happen again.”