The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has been accused of racism after being confronted by a woman during a shopping trip to an Apple store in Washington DC. “How does it feel to work for a fascist?” asked Shree Chauhan, a 33-year-old woman who works at a non-profit in DC, while using Periscope to record the encounter. Shree ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸 (@shreec) Asking @PressSec questions in Apple Store since he doesn't like the press. “That is racism and it is an implied threat,” wrote Chauhan in a Medium post about the incident. It is not known whether Spicer’s comment was a response to the woman’s racial background or a comment on free speech and her ability to ask a government official questions in a public space.

Source: The Guardian March 13, 2017 15:33 UTC