Donald Trump supporter accuses New York Mets of 'racial discrimination' after banning her MAGA hat

A achromatic pistillate has accused the New York Mets of 'racial favoritism and governmental retaliation' after launching ineligible enactment implicit claims she was refused introduction to a crippled due to the fact that she was wearing a MAGA hat.

Aura Moody, a committee subordinate of the Queens Village Republican Club, is demanding $2million successful damages aft allegedly being stopped from entering Citi Field until she took disconnected the headdress backmost successful August.

She told DailyMail.com astatine the clip that she and a friend, Taisha, were halted by unit arsenic soon arsenic they passed done security, and were told they 'had to remove' the hats and instrumentality to the parking batch earlier they could enter.

But Moody, 64, claims that erstwhile she got wrong the stadium aft taking the chapeau backmost to her car, determination were achromatic members of her radical inactive wearing MAGA hats and different items of clothing. 

The societal worker, who is simply a parent of two, was astatine the crippled with 8 other members of the Queens Village Republican Club, situated successful deep-blue New York City, which claims to beryllium America's oldest Republican club. 

'I told them, I person First Amendment rights!' Moody said. 'They told maine it was political, I said you cannot bash that!'

According to the New York Post, Moody filed a suit earlier this period successful Brooklyn Federal Court.

She has accused the shot nine of 'racial discrimination, governmental retaliation and reputational harm'. 

Moody added that the incidental violated her close to state of code and led to 'emotional distress'.

'This state is expected to beryllium the beacon of state for all,' she said.

Court documents amusement Moody offered to region the chapeau and enactment it successful her container but information dismissed the thought due to the fact that she could person enactment it connected erstwhile she got inside.

Moody claims she 'knew she was being racially targeted and politically retaliated against for being a achromatic pistillate wearing a MAGA hat'. After demanding to talk to a information supervisor, she was told it was the club's 'policy'.

In a Facebook post relating to the incident, a person of Moody's said helium was stunned by the decision, and shared it to societal media. 

'Folks, I honestly don't springiness a s*** if you contempt Donald Trump, that is NOT what this is about!' the station read. 

'Is this the America you privation to unrecorded in?' 

Viewers reacted with outrage aft Moody's alleged expulsion from Citi Field aft it was shared by journalist Miranda Devine, with 1 questioning: 'Do they nonstop radical backmost to their car if they person connected a (Kamala) Harris shirt?'

Others branded the determination 'ridiculous' and urged Moody, who has not been backmost to Citi Field since, to research whether her rights were violated.

Moody has antecedently made a sanction for herself astir New York's governmental scene, including starring a march done the streets of Manhattan to protestation the COVID-19 vaccines. 

According to the Facebook post connected the incident, Moody was a teacher successful New York who mislaid her occupation aft she refused to get the vaccine. 

In footage shared to X, she was seen marching with a tiny radical of anti-vaccine protestors past year, arsenic she raged against the 'unconstitutional COVID vaccine mandates.' 

Moody's radical besides appeared to beryllium progressive successful rallying Trump supporters earlier successful the year erstwhile the erstwhile president held an unprecedented lawsuit successful the Bronx. 

Mets spokeswoman Nancy Elder told the Post they person nary remark connected the lawsuit.