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TV Actor Robert Brown Accuses Macy’s of Racial Profiling
Time ^ | 10/25/13 | Colleen Long

Posted on 10/26/2013 5:30:06 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

A black actor on the HBO drama series “Treme” said in a lawsuit on Friday that he wasstopped because of his race while buying sunglasses at Macy’s — the third discrimination allegation made this week by a black shopper against a department store.

Robert Brown, who filed the lawsuit in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, said he was detained by police at the flagship Herald Square store on June 8 after employees contacted authorities about possible credit card fraud.

He said he was “paraded while handcuffed” through the store to a holding cell, where he was kept for nearly an hour while officers grilled him and searched his bag. His lawsuit said Macy’s employees suggested he couldn’t afford to make such an expensive purchase. He eventually was released without charges.

The department store was profiling Brown because of his race, said his lawsuit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discrimination; race; thugs
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To: nuconvert

If you read the article:

“he tried to show police officers his identification to prove his credit/debit card wasn’t a fake but was told it was phony. He said he also produced the ID when buying the sunglasses.”


21 posted on 10/26/2013 7:33:18 AM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: SoFloFreeper
TV Actor Robert Brown Accuses Macy’s of Racial Profiling

TV Actor Robert Brown Accuses Macy’s of Using Common Sense.

22 posted on 10/26/2013 7:48:17 AM PDT by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Does crying racism even mean anything anymore?


23 posted on 10/26/2013 8:00:00 AM PDT by gattaca ("Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: gattaca

No, ignore it. Stop paying attention to these stories and they’ll fade away like a bad fart. They jumped the shark and over played their hand. This is like the washington wives bitching about rap or rock music, which gave those bands tens of millions of dollars worth a free advertising.


24 posted on 10/26/2013 8:03:31 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: righttackle44

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The fact that this happens to so few people tells me that it wasn’t about his race.


25 posted on 10/26/2013 8:14:24 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Marie

Why are rich brown celebrities buying fake temporary debit cards in the first place?


26 posted on 10/26/2013 8:16:09 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Sadly, the real news here is that he was BUYING sunglasses.

With that being said, there are a darned good number of hard-working, honest black people in this country, and it must ABSOLUTELY SUCK to be them.


27 posted on 10/26/2013 8:22:09 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: GeronL

He didn’t. You’re referring to another case that was mentioned in the same article.

“Earlier this week, two Barneys New York customers came forward with similar stories. Trayon Christian and Kayla Phillips, who are black, said they were detained by police after making expensive purchases at the store.”

“Police said they were already in the store when Christian was taken into custody and they were contacted by the store after Phillips used a temporary debit card.”


28 posted on 10/26/2013 8:47:56 AM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: Marie

OK, I thought it said this guy had one too


29 posted on 10/26/2013 8:48:48 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Marie

I’d like to hear the clerk’s version of the story..
If his version is the truth, then he has a case.


30 posted on 10/26/2013 9:19:01 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Jonty30

Guess what: he graduated from Amherst, made his movie debut opposite Sean Connery, and has a principal role in an ongoing HBO hit series - so maybe who you have or haven’t heard of isn’t the defining factor here.


31 posted on 10/26/2013 9:20:20 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: nuconvert

Agreed.


32 posted on 10/26/2013 9:23:42 AM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: P-Marlowe

You need an attitude adjustment. They also have a right to make purchases with their own money. As a lead actor in a long-running HBO series, he probably earns more than half the members of FR. I know his income is much, much more than mine. But no employee at Macy’s would ever dream of telling me what they thought I could or could not afford, because I’m white. This was completely uncalled for, and I hope he sues that store into oblivion.


33 posted on 10/26/2013 9:27:25 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

No, it doesn’t. It sounds like creepy, envious, stupid racism. This guy is an established actor, starring in a current tv series.


34 posted on 10/26/2013 9:30:46 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo
But no employee at Macy’s would ever dream of telling me what they thought I could or could not afford, because I’m white.

I bet I could dress you up so that no department store clerk would let you within 20 feet of a jewelry counter.

The question is not what the color of his skin was, but what was he wearing, had he bathed in the last week, and how was he acting?

He is assuming it was because he was black, but I'm betting there were a lot of other factors involved.

35 posted on 10/26/2013 9:51:57 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If this man was profiled it is because he fits a profile. That profile being that most shoplifters at this Macy’s store are black. So he should blame his fellow blacks NYers for bringing suspicion down on him

Many/most of store security people are black anyway. They are doing the alleged profiling and do it well because they know how this game goes down

So some pansy-arse black actor living on cloud nine can pretend he exists apart from the criminal shoplifting actions of people who (unfortunately) look like him. But in a logical world he does not. We have our individual identities but also have our group identities and family identities


36 posted on 10/26/2013 10:06:26 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw
We have our individual identities but also have our group identities and family identities.

Do you really want to go down that road?

All kinds of things from affirmative action and quotas to reparations follow.

37 posted on 10/26/2013 10:09:00 AM PDT by x
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To: SoFloFreeper

But this is “Liberal” New York.....I thought only those southern Tea Partiers were racist.


38 posted on 10/26/2013 10:10:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: x

Just because there are group identities does not follow that group x y or z in entitled to anything.


39 posted on 10/26/2013 10:17:15 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw
Just the negative side, the disadvantages and disabilities, then?

When you get away from judging individuals as individuals to thinking of groups, I don't know if you can limit the consequences so easily.

40 posted on 10/26/2013 10:20:38 AM PDT by x
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