A former Walmart employee claims she was fired because she published her confrontation with a mother who had allegedly deprived her child of any clothing besides a diaper in sub-freezing weather last week.
In the TikTok video, a young boy appears to be shivering and chattering his teeth while inside a shopping cart as several concerned shoppers ask his mother why she brought him to the store without winter clothing.
The incident allegedly took place at a Walmart Supercenter in Byram, a suburb of Jackson, Mississippi, according to the employee's Facebook page.
By then, the boy was wearing what looked like his mother's puffy coat, but witnesses in the video said that he was wearing only a diaper when they first entered the store.
At one point, the woman appears to toss a frozen package of food into the cart, which lands on the child's leg.
"Don't do that!" Felicia Nicole, the Walmart employee who filmed the encounter, could be heard saying. "Somebody call the police on her."
At another point in the video, the mother asked whether Nicole herself had a child. She responded that she was a mother, too.
In a follow-up video, she explained that her child had passed away, but that she could never imagine putting her baby in a similar situation.
"Yes, I do have a child. He's deceased," Nicole said. "But if my child was living, ain't no way in hell my child would be out there with no clothes on, just a diaper."
In another clip, a concerned shopper puts the child into a new pair of sweatpants and a sweatshirt that she'd apparently just purchased for him at the store.
Nicole claims her video quickly went viral on Facebook, receiving more than 3,000 shares in a single hour. Then her manager allegedly called and urged her to take the video down.
Nicole says she immediately deleted the video, but she was fired just days later.
She has since set up a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for her bills as she looks to find a new job. She set out to raise $5,000 for her expenses but has so far received more than $13,000 from donors.
"No I wasn't thinking about the consequences at the time, at that time my main focus was on that innocent poor child, and to get him some help," Nicole wrote on the campaign page.
"Yes I posted the video on my Facebook page because I wanted to reach out to some of her family members and case workers."
Nicole said she and other shoppers eventually called the police, who arrested the woman. The Messenger couldn't immediately verify that detail.
The Messenger has reached out to Walmart for comment.
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