Chili’s Bar and Grill, every year, offers free meals to veterans on Veteran’s day. However, this year 47-year-old retired veteran Ernest Walker of the U.S. Army’s 25th Division was denied his to-go order due to racism.

Walker walked in with his service dog, Barack, and his Discharge papers and Military ID (to show proof of his status as a veteran) when “An old white guy wearing a Trump flag shirt”  approached him and asked if he served in the 24th Division.  When Walker replied the 25th, the elderly man stated that he served in the 25th in WWII Germany and that “We did not see people like you over there. They would not allow Blacks.” Walker (who is Black) then walked away.

After receiving a hamburger to-go, he was stopped by the manager who informed him that another customer told him he was not a veteran, while taking the box from him. Incredulous, Walker attempted to show his military ID but the manager refused to take it. Walker proclaimed, “I looked around and I’m embarrassed at this point. People are looking. I’m a soldier. I’m a person and everybody’s looking like I stole food.”

Later on Facebook, he argued that the manager should have apologized and then he would have left. Instead, the manager claimed the other customer said that he lied about Barack being a real service dog.

The president of the food chain apologized and stated that the manager has been removed from his position. Walker’s attorney made the following statement: “Mr. Walker was not interested in seeing the young man fired, he felt that he had made a mistake to the extent that he could own up to it. … The end result doesn’t have to be hostility. If it could be a benefit to the Dallas community, that would be an end goal for us.”