SEPARATE, HIDDEN, LOCKED ELEVATORS ARE DANGEROUS AND DISCRIMINATORY
This is my wife, waiting 20+ minutes to simply enter the Marshalls at 255 E. Flagler in downtown Miami.
The elevator must be summoned by
ringing a bell, but no one responds. We phoned twice & got hung up on.
The downtown Miami Marshalls store
discriminates against people with disabilities by segregating its elevator far
from the main entrance.
Wheelchair users routinely wait a half
hour for a response to unlock it.
For more than 2 decades, the Marshalls in downtown Miami segregates people with disabilities to an unmarked locked elevator far from its main entrance.
Its parent company earns $32 billion
in one year.
It can afford an all-access elevator
at its main entrance.
If I said you had to wait 30 minutes to enter my store if you are Black/Jewish/LGBTQ, I would expect boycotts/protests/lawsuits.
So why does downtown Miami Marshalls make
people with disabilities wait half hour for staff to unlock elevator?
Discrimination strips dignity.
We have contacted a regional manager
and told him the only thing that will change this is a new elevator for all
without controlled access.
