The white people of Portland need to ignore these incidents and just feel guilty about being white. Do they realize that before the Civil War, free black people were not allowed to settle in Oregon? What have they personally done to atone for that?
“Is he saying that the security personnel give the employees a hard time but don’t care if the customers are stealing things?”
Statistically, most retail store loss is due to employee theft rather than customore shoplifting. So, yeah, the security types would be scrutinizing them harder. Besides, they’re probably forbidden to interfere with a shoplifter due to liability. It’s not Just, but it is legally and fiscally expedient.