New York woman sues Mets for $2 million after being barred from wearing Trump MAGA hat in Citi Field: report

A New York pistillate is seeking $2 cardinal successful damages from the New York Mets aft she claims that she was barred from entering Citi Field portion wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, the New York Post reported Saturday. 

Aura Moody filed a suit earlier this period aft she told the outlet that she had been denied introduction into Citi Field connected August 14 aft a unit subordinate had said she was not allowed successful with the chapeau which had the slogan of former President Donald Trump’s campaign. 

Francisco Lindor, #12 of the New York Mets, takes the tract during the archetypal inning against the Oakland Athletics astatine Citi Field connected August 14, 2024, successful New York City.  (Adam Hunger/Getty Images)

"This state is expected to beryllium the beacon of state for all," she told The Post. 

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Moody said she had been attending the Mets’ location crippled against the Oakland Athletics with respective members of the Queens Village Republican Club. She and different subordinate were told the caps were "too political" and could not beryllium brought into the stadium astatine all, contempt her making her First Amendment pleas. 

But Moody claimed that erstwhile she yet reached her spot aft bringing the chapeau backmost to the car, she saw that different White members of her radical were wrong wearing MAGA attire. 

Attendees question their hats during a municipality hallway lawsuit with erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump and Arkansas politician Sarah Huckabee Sanders, not pictured, astatine Dort Financial Center successful Flint, Michigan, connected Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.  (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg)

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She is accusing the shot enactment of "racial favoritism and governmental retaliation" and "reputational harm," The Post reported, citing tribunal documents. 

The Mets did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment, but a spokesperson told The Post backmost successful August that the worker had been "mistaken astir our attire policy." 

The spokesperson added that the Mets were readying to scope retired and apologize to Moody and invitation her backmost to the stadium. 

An aerial presumption of the tract during the crippled betwixt the New York Yankees and the New York Mets astatine Citi Field connected Wednesday, July 27, 2022, successful New York. (Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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Earlier this week, the Arizona Cardinals apologized to a pistillate who had been told she had to region her MAGA chapeau earlier entering State Farm Stadium to be Sunday’s crippled against the Los Angeles Rams. 

"In an isolated incidental astatine Sunday's game, a stadium information subordinate misunderstood a argumentation connected prohibited items. Like astir venues, ‘signage, posters, flags, oregon displays that are….political successful nature' are not permitted. However, that did not use successful this instance. Moving guardant we volition enactment to supply clarity to each stadium unit successful these situations. We person besides reached retired to the idiosyncratic progressive to pass that their acquisition was not accordant with our policies and practices and to apologize for that," the connection read. 

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