Ciara Miller
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Ciara Miller
Ciara Miller is a resident of the Creekside Condominiums in Newark, Delaware which is located 10 miles from Delaware City, Delaware. [1]
Personal Life
Video of the incident
Ciara Miller is the married mother of a young child.
Ciara has said that her husband's father served in the United States Military.
Abuse of a Disabled Veteran
In September, 2017 Ciara Miller yelled at and verbally abusing retired US Air National Guard Force Master Sgt. Bill Austin and his wife for bringing Bill's PTSD service dog into a restaurant. A video of the incident posted on Facebook went viral on social media receiving more than a million views.
The video begins in the middle of the argument, ** showing Delaware resident Ciara Miller standing in the middle of Kathy's Crab House and Family Restaurant in Delaware City, Delaware arguing with a small group of people, which included a man holding the leash of a Great Dane wearing a vest indicating it's a "PTSD service dog."
Ciara screams that "I'm not going to keep my opinions to myself.
I'm going to voice it just like I did.
There's nothing you can do about it," Miller says in the video.
She also repeatedly says that "its nasty" when referring to the dog.
Before the end of the video Ciara also states that "It's disgusting to have an animal inside of a public restaurant."
She also states that if a restaurant allows dogs they should be put in a private section.
Aftermath
Ciara Miller has said that she's the subject of a smear campaign because the video turns on only halfway through the confrontation, by which point Miller said she'd been yelled at and called racial slurs.
"I am frightened to send my daughter to school with the level of verbal content is being said to and about me, my family and I based on these fake articles," Miller said in an email.
But the veteran in the video, retired U.S.
Army Master Sgt. Bill Austin, said no one ever said anything racial to Miller; that she started the argument; and that his dog, JP, behaved appropriately.
"I really am hoping something positive comes out of this," Austin said.
"This is about bad behavior."
"I can't eat looking at a dog's butt," she said Wednesday.
As she and her family went to leave, she said another woman confronted her about the comments she'd overheard.
Miller said the woman quickly grew insulting and others came up to join in.
Asked about her cussing and shouting, Miller said, "It didn't come from nowhere."
Austin said his dog never had his face or rear end near her table and was, in fact, lying on the floor.
"You're not allowed to do that," Austin said about her claim the dog's butt was near her.
"I know my rights and the ADA guidelines."
Austin said his wife went over to Miller's table to try and explain the role and legal place of service animals, but that Miller blew up.
"This girl verbally attacked my wife, and it just escalated," Austin said.
TMZ Interview
On September 22, 2017 in a video interview with TMZ Ciara Miller explained her side of the story. She claimed that while she did not want to eat because the dog's butt was pointing at her, she simply told her husband and started leaving. The confrontation only started according to Ciara when a woman called her a "nigger" for leaving because of the dog.
Ciara also told TMZ that she has family members who served in the military with PTSD, so she understands the need for service dogs... but she still doesn't like them in restaurants personally.