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Christian-owned craft store chain Michaels came under fire when reporter Shaun King tweeted an image of a racial slur in a display.
The racist display was apparently the work of an employee.
Racist profiling in the news
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Christian-owned craft store chain Michaels came under fire when reporter Shaun King tweeted an image of a racial slur in a display.
The racist display was apparently the work of an employee.
Legion Troll
A fine upstanding poster
The crime of "shopping while Black" isn't just a myth—at least not at CVS.
On Tuesday, former CVS security guard Sheldon Thomas filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company in Brooklyn Federal Court. Thomas, whose primary role was to catch shoplifters, alleged that he was given explicit instructions to target Black and Hispanic shoppers.
A supervisor told him, “When you catch the black people, lock them up,” and, “when you catch the Spanish people, lock them up.”
Thomas alleged that his supervisor referred to Black customers as "niggers", and habitually let white shoplifters go without arresting them.
Thomas's lawsuit came only a day after two other CVS employees filed a discrimination suit.
The chain also faced a federal discrimination suit from four former employees in 2015 for the same reason.
“While there have been many high-profile shop-and-frisk cases filed by customers of large retailers in recent years,” David E. Gottlieb, the plaintiffs' lawyer, told the New York Times, “this is the first time a group of employees has banded together to provide an inside account and expose the blatant racial profiling policy at one of the largest retailers in the world.”
http://www.attn.com/stories/6934/former-cvs-employee-confirms-racial-profiling-customers
On Tuesday, former CVS security guard Sheldon Thomas filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company in Brooklyn Federal Court. Thomas, whose primary role was to catch shoplifters, alleged that he was given explicit instructions to target Black and Hispanic shoppers.
A supervisor told him, “When you catch the black people, lock them up,” and, “when you catch the Spanish people, lock them up.”
Thomas alleged that his supervisor referred to Black customers as "niggers", and habitually let white shoplifters go without arresting them.
Thomas's lawsuit came only a day after two other CVS employees filed a discrimination suit.
The chain also faced a federal discrimination suit from four former employees in 2015 for the same reason.
“While there have been many high-profile shop-and-frisk cases filed by customers of large retailers in recent years,” David E. Gottlieb, the plaintiffs' lawyer, told the New York Times, “this is the first time a group of employees has banded together to provide an inside account and expose the blatant racial profiling policy at one of the largest retailers in the world.”
http://www.attn.com/stories/6934/former-cvs-employee-confirms-racial-profiling-customers