The employee has been fired after a video of the encounter went viral on Facebook.

A white campground manager in Mississippi has been fired after pulling a gun on a black couple who had stopped by with their dog to have a picnic. Franklin and Jessica Richardson, along with their 2-year-old dog, decided to have a lakeside picnic on Memorial Day. They went to Oktibbeha County Lake, near Starkville, Mississippi, a site run by Kampgrounds of America (KOA).

Within minutes of their arriving, a woman in a yellow KOA employee shirt appeared in a truck. When she got out she had a gun in her right hand, her finger on the trigger. The woman identified herself as the campground's manager and told the couple to leave, that they didn't belong, and that they needed reservations. "This lady literally just pulled a gun because we out here and din't have reservations for a lake we didn't even know we had to have reservations for," Jessica Richardson says in a video she took of the confrontation and posted to Facebook.

"The only thing you had to do was tell us to leave, we would have left, you did not have to pull a gun," Richardson tells the woman. “You can feel the intent behind it. I felt it. I felt the heat from it. I felt it in her eyes. I knew exactly what it was,” Richardson told local news station WCBI.

She also told the station she was shocked that the woman told them to "get, get," like what you'd say to an animal. “Time stopped. Everything stopped. I was confused as to what was going on. It’s not like we posed a threat to anybody out there walking our dog. There’s nothing harmful about that,” Richardson told WCBI.

