Jeff Bezos rejects complaint about Amazon Black Lives Matter banner: ‘I don’t worry my son will be choked to death’
AMAZON boss Jeff Bezos publicly shut down a customer who complained about the company's support for Black Lives Matter.
The CEO expressed his support for the protests which have swept across the US after a cop of
"I am for everyone voicing their opinions and standing up for what you believe in, but for your company to blast this on your website is very offensive to me," the customer wrote. "ALL LIVES MATTER!"
Although Amazon has backed the BLM movement, they came under fire during the pandemic as employees protested the , claiming they were
Some workers – like Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham – alleged that they were against Amazon, a claim the company has repeatedly denied.
"We support every employee’s right to criticize their , but that does not come with blanket immunity against any and all internal policies," an Amazon spokesperson previously told The Sun.
"We terminated these employees not for talking publicly about working conditions or safety, but rather, for repeatedly violating internal policies.”