CHICAGO, Illinois -- A Chicago CVS manager is under fire after a video of him allegedly calling the police over a wrong coupon was posted to social media.Camilla Hudson says Morry Matson, the CVS manager, claimed he didn't recognize the coupon she wanted to use.She posted the interaction with Matson on Facebook as he called police. "So, THIS just happened: I had the police called on me for attempting to use a coupon at the CVS Pharmacy located at 6150 N. Broadway in Chicago! I stopped in to make a purchase using a coupon mailed to me by the product manufacturer, as replacement for problematic/defective product," Hudson shared on Facebook . "The manager on duty said that he'd never seen a coupon like the one I had and said that he thought it was fraudulent. When I asked for his name and his title/role within the store, he became agitated and rude. "Matson described Hudson as African-American."Black. No, I'm not African-American. I'm black. Black isn't a bad word," she said.The video ends with Matson speaking into the phone and saying, "No, thank you. "He then hangs up the phone.In a statement to ABC News, CVS apologized for Hudson's experience inside the store.<doc-sep>CHICAGO, Illinois -- A Chicago CVS manager is under fire after a video of him allegedly calling the police over a wrong coupon was posted to social media.Camilla Hudson says Morry Matson, the CVS manager, claimed he didn't recognize the coupon she wanted to use.She posted the interaction with Matson on Facebook as he called police. "So, THIS just happened: I had the police called on me for attempting to use a coupon at the CVS Pharmacy located at 6150 N. Broadway in Chicago! I stopped in to make a purchase using a coupon mailed to me by the product manufacturer, as replacement for problematic/defective product," Hudson shared on Facebook . "The manager on duty said that he'd never seen a coupon like the one I had and said that he thought it was fraudulent. When I asked for his name and his title/role within the store, he became agitated and rude. "Matson, visibly shaken in the video, described Hudson as African-American."Black. No, I'm not African-American. I'm black. Black isn't a bad word," she said.The video ends with Matson speaking into the phone and saying, "No, thank you. "He then hangs up the phone.In a statement to ABC News, CVS apologized for Hudson's experience inside the store.<doc-sep>Coupon Carl aka Morry Matson calling the police on Camilla Hudson at a Chicago CVS, July 14, 2018. Screenshot : StanceGrounded Twitter Yes, this is yet another story of a sorry white person calling the police on a black person for something trivial —his moniker? “Coupon Carl”—but it’s also a cautionary tale of the blowback of such actions; or, as my mama says, “When you point a finger, there are three pointing back at you.” Advertisement Morry Matson, a white Chicago CVS manager who called the police on a black woman who tried to use a manufacturer’s coupon at the pharmacy (yes, you read that correctly), was captured on video in the absurd interaction. The woman, Camilla Hudson, told Block Club Chicago that she initially tried to use the self-checkout, but it lacked a mechanism for taking coupons. It reports: The store’s manager, Matson, offered to assist her on a register, but the situation escalated when he called for another manager, she said. That manager, whose name was not known, told Hudson they couldn’t accept the voucher because he’d never seen one like it before and accused her of possibly handwriting it, she said. The situation escalated as Hudson was rightfully offended at being called a liar and a thief. She was asked to leave but stood her ground as Matson then called police . A screenshot of the Facebook post telling of her side of the story (taken down by the social media platform) is below: Advertisement Here is the copy of the coupon: Screenshot : Block Club Chicago ( Camilla Hudson ) Advertisement The scalding hot tea, though, is that Matson himself has a history of deceit —ironically for transgressions similar to bringing a bogus coupon into a CVS. In 2016, DNA Info Chicago (now in archives), reported that “A vote on extending the lakefront path from Edgewater to Rogers Park was yanked from the November ballot after city officials ruled that five pages of signatures on the petitions calling for the vote were forged.” Advertisement Guess who the forger was? Yep, old Coupon Carl (aka Morry Matson). Raw Story reports that Morry was leading an effort to build an expensive waterfront bike path to a beach near his own home, saying that improving the beachfront would not mean that there would be an influx of “people from the South Side” (and we know who he means). Advertisement Yet apparently, an opponent of the bike path discovered that in at least five of the 13 pages of his ballot measure contained signatures written by Matson himself. Advertisement “I laughed out loud on the bus,” said Anne Sullivan, who actually read the signatures on the way home from the Chicago Board of Elections, to DNA Info. “I said are you kidding me? You just submitted this without even thinking anybody would look at it?” DNA Info reports: The City of Chicago’s Board of Election Commissioners and its handwriting expert agreed with several of Sullivan’s complaints after reviewing the pages — primarily that five of at least 13 sheets of signatures, save for two names, were written in Matson’s own handwriting and listed addresses for some of those signatures that weren’t homes. Matson admitted he had signed some of the signatures himself. For example, Matson said friends and co-workers at the Ridge and Broadway Walgreen’s where he works allowed him to sign the petition on their behalf, and he listed the address of Walgreens as the addresses of their homes. Sullivan said other signatures and places of residents included Clark Street restaurants, urgent care centers and firefighters who worked, but didn’t live, in the neighborhood. Petitioners are allowed 90 days to collect signatures, but Matson told DNAinfo he had been gathering names for more than a year and three months. By law, that’s not allowed. The board of elections found that “there was a pattern of fraud, false swearing and total disregard of the requirements of the election code” and threw out the measure. Advertisement But when a black woman brings a manufacturer’s coupon into his store, she has the cops called on her. “You’re calling me a liar, you’re calling me a thief, you’re calling me a forger,” said Hudson of the incident. “It’s not that they didn’t take the coupon or refused to take the coupon, it’s how he did it. He was nasty, he was unprofessional, he was dismissive, he was accusatory—his entire tone and demeanor was offensive and problematic.” Advertisement The “forger” part is the most ironic. Hudson said in her post that there were three officers who showed up in response to Matson’s call and she spoke with them before leaving the store. Advertisement The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Matson is now running for 48th Ward alderman and one of his campaign promises is “increased police presence throughout Alderman Matson’s 48th Ward.” According to his website, he was a state delegate for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election and is president of the Log Cabin Republicans of Illinois, a group advocating for LGBTQ conservatives. Advertisement For their part, CVS has apologized for the incident, according to Block Club Chicago: We sincerely apologize to Ms. Hudson for her experience in one of our stores,” CVS said in a statement issued to Block Club Chicago. “Our Region Director in Chicago contacted Ms. Hudson as soon as we were made aware of this incident. CVS has begun an investigation and we will take any corrective action that is warranted to prevent it from happening again. CVS Pharmacy does not tolerate any practices that discriminate against any customer and we are committed to maintaining a welcoming and diverse environment in our stores,” the statement continued. “We have firm non-discrimination policies in place to help ensure that all customers are treated with respect and dignity. Profiling or any other type of discriminatory behavior is strictly prohibited. Advertisement I think Coupon Carl needs a job where he doesn’t interact with the public, don’t you?<doc-sep>
Photo : Justin Sullivan ( Getty Images ) The backlash continues after “Coupon Carl” called the police on a black woman who was trying to use a manufacturer’s coupon in store, accusing the woman of forgery. The retail and healthcare giant announced on Monday that it had fired two employees at a Chicago-area store, mere days after the woman in question — Camilla Hudson, posted a video showing a white man calling the cops on her. “We have completed our investigation, and as a result the two colleagues who were involved are no longer employed by CVS Health,” the tweeted-out statement by the company read. “CVS Health does not tolerate any practices that discriminate against any customer and we are committed to maintaining a welcome and diverse environment in our stores.” Presumably, Coupon Carl, legally known as Morry Matson, was a part of the pair dismissed, however, CVS declined to identify the pair only specifying that “they were both employed as shift supervisors at the store,” the New York Times reports. Matson, interestingly enough, is presumably running for 48th Ward alderman, promising “increased police present throughout Alderman Matson’s 48th Ward,” however the campaign site that was cited by the Chicago Sun-Times is no longer active. Matson also is listed as the president of the Illinois chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, which advocates for LGBTQ conservatives, but the chapter’s website page was also offline on Monday, and the group confirmed to the NYT that they had terminated the chapter’s provisional charter after hearing about Matson’s conduct.