My bad, that must be my White privilege talking...
I suspect the upstanding young academic was simply shopping for jogging or clock-making equipment when he was brutally harassed by the slave-driving patriarchic white supremacist store clerk.
Oh well. At least, as an enemy of social justice, the latter will fear for his life and that of his family forever.
Perhaps he could go work for Chick-fil-A and get one of those free shoe brushes?