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Brittney Payton, Daughter of Bears Icon Walter, Details Racist Encounter

FOX32 anchor Brittney Payton, the daughter of Hall of Fame NFL running back Walter Payton, said she encountered a racist white man at a Chicago Walgreens on Tuesday.

Payton posted her experience on Twitter, saying the man in the car behind her got out of his vehicle, held up a watermelon and made monkey noises in her direction in the Walgreens pharmacy drive-thru:

"It's not the first racist thing that's ever happened to me. I'm 35 years old. There's been many times in my life that I've had to deal with racism," Payton said through tears.