Empire Toyota of Huntington in New York fired two workers Thursday after they had been recorded harassing a household on the Lengthy Island Rail Highway in a video posted on social media websites.

The 2 workers had been recorded Monday evening on the way in which again to Lengthy Island after a New York Knicks basketball sport yelling xenophobic slurs at what the posts described as an immigrant household.

The video was posted on Fb and tweeted out by Osman Canales, president of Lengthy Island Immigrant Scholar Advocates, figuring out the 2 and calling for Empire Toyota to fireplace them.

Within the video, one of many workers will be heard saying, “These f—ing foreigners ain’t taking up my f—ing nation.” The publish additionally stated that the staff threw beer on the household.

There was an “outcry on social media,” Joseph Gentile, basic counsel for Empire Automotive Group, instructed Automotive Information. Empire Toyota of Huntington additionally acquired a number of telephone calls from people asking for the staff to be fired, he stated.

Empire Toyota carried out an inner investigation and fired the staff in below 24 hours, Gentile stated.

“The guts and soul of our labor drive is extraordinarily various and we worth our workers past description,” a Fb publish by the dealership stated. “We are able to say with out hesitation that no matter occurred on that LIRR practice is by no means reflective of our firm, its possession, its administration staff, nor its workers.”