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 Macys 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 Macys employees suggested he couldnt 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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And women are beaten and raped, and children are kidnapped and sold into slavery. That has nothing to do with an ordinary day in New York when a man going into a departament store to buy a watch...sunglasses...whatever...gets arrested. There is something very twisted in your way of thinking to say that he deserves it because white people are being persecuted in Africa. Because that is what you are saying. That he doesn’t have the right to buy things with his own money due to other injustices in the world.
You really are like the rage-possessed bigot straw man that the liberals paint all of us as.
In short black people get profiled.
This should be our response to the racist charge.
Thanks for your unimpressive stream of consciousnesses response. Maybe you can get up there and lay down your (phony baloney) rap with Obama or JayZee.
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