Diamond Shamrock and Kwik Stop Boycott

[2] The protest was organized after an incident in which the Korean owner of the convenience store, Thomas Pak, refused to waive a $5 minimum charge for debit card transactions for the African-American leader of the local Nation of Islam chapter, Jeffrey Muhammad, which was allegedly followed by an exchange of racial epithets between the two men.

[2] In 2010, a Korean employee of the store shot and killed Marcus Phillips, a 26-year-old African-American who appeared to be attempting to steal the cash register.

[3] Dallas has one of the largest Korean American communities in the United States, and many of them have established businesses which are central to the local black population.

[9] Anthony Bond, the founder of the Irving chapter of the NAACP, has called for the protest to end and has contacted the United States Department of Justice to request assistance from a Community Relations Service representative.

[10] The Diamond Shamrock petrol station and Kwik Stop convenience store was demolished in autumn 2018 and it is currently an empty lot.