We can HOPE!!
how low we have fallen to pay any heed to this racist punks blackmail
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Posted on 12/10/2013 7:14:21 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Civil rights leaders such as the Rev. Al Sharpton and retail executives have hammered out a list of rules that will be tacked up inside stores to ensure that black shoppers will not be racially profiled and targeted just for buying a pricey item.
Six weeks after the Daily News reported on a series of racial-profiling allegations from black shoppers, a coalition of high-end retailers and civil rights leaders came up with a “bill of rights” to protect customers from “shop-and-frisk” practices.
The list was released to the media after getting final approval Monday morning at a meeting that included the Rev. Al Sharpton and executives from Barneys, Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord & Taylor and other department stores.
Sharpton hailed the “best practices” agreement — the first of its kind between community leaders and the retail industry — as a step in the right direction.
But the issue won’t be fully resolved until the coalition gets the NYPD to participate, he said. “We cannot have an agreement with the NYPD without the incoming commissioner saying, ‘We agree to that,’ ” said Sharpton, who has reached out to newly appointed Police Commissioner Bill Bratton for a sitdown.
Bratton didn’t respond to calls for comment Monday, but a spokeswoma.n for Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio said the commissioner-designate would be happy to meet with the group.
“Mayor-elect de Blasio has said repeatedly that his administration will have zero tolerance for racial profiling of any kind,” said spokeswoman Lis Smith, adding that de Blasio “deeply appreciates” the retailers’ willingness to adopt the new policies.
The bill of rights says that store employees who racially profile customers can be disciplined and possibly even fired.
Vulgar language or excessive force while detaining suspects are prohibited. Employees are required to “respect the basic civil and legal rights of any person suspected” of a crime, the list says.
Stores will be subject to internal tests to make sure they are in compliance — and the regulations must be applied nationwide, not just in department stores in New York City. Rules must be “highly visible,” said Kirsten John Foy, head of Brooklyn’s National Action Network chapter.
“We left it to each store to figure out their specifics for posting, but it must be posted in common areas, available upon request and clearly placed on store websites,” he said.
Retailers have a week to get the information online and in stores — and some have even pledged to run ads publicizing the bill of rights to customers, said Foy. “The message I think is very simple,” said Ed Goldberg, Macy’s vice president. “We understand the gravity of the situation. . . . We subscribe to the document that’s going to be released by the retail council.”
Monday’s “shop-and-frisk” forum grew out of racial profiling allegations that surfaced in October at Barneys and Macy’s.
As first reported by The News, four black shoppers alleged they were wrongfully stopped by NYPD detectives after buying pricey items at the stores. The initial allegations were made by Trayon Christian, 19, and Kayla Phillips, 21, in October against Barneys. Both shoppers claimed they were wrongfully accused of debit card fraud by undercover NYPD detectives after buying pricey items in the upscale store. After The Daily News broke their stories, two more black shoppers stepped forward with similar claims against Macy's. Actor Rob Brown, 29, and Art Palmer, 56, a personal trainer, both said they were stopped by cops after shopping at the department store. Both Barneys and Macy’s denied any racial profiling and pinned the blame on cops. NYPD spokesman John McCarthy has said detectives reacted to information given to them by store employees in each instance.
By barry’s admission (of course without his having realized it) +60% of blacks in this country are bums.
Beware the flash mobs!
How about a law to protect white people form black thugs in the knockout game and voter intimidation.
How about this - upright, honest black people of good character need to “clean house” on their culture to remove the reason that black people get profiled as “more likely to steal something”.
I wonder if the stores have any recourse if their ‘newly consecrated’ special customers default on their purchase payments?
It’s a sad thing to have all of these special categories here in the U.S. of A., Gays, Blacks, Hispanics, etc. But the good ol’ white people... Well it’s just fine to discriminate against them all you want, it’s even the law, (or so it seems).
Yeah right. How are they going to “clean house”?
Haven’t heard many of them speaking out against “the culture” to date.
Well why would they need that, Big head Al?
There must be some question as to their morality and ethics if such is required, and gee, I wonder why that is ?_?
Why aren’t Japanese or Finnish or Argentinian people complaining about racial profiling?
They’re outnumbered by about 10 to 1.
If they say anything, they will be called Uncle Toms, house blacks, etc..
Corrected.
Live not by lies...
Seems that is how the US insist on living.
I didn’t hear a lot of white Southerners speaking against Jim Crow back in the day either.
Successful blacks vote with their feet. Once you are out of that culture, you tend to stay out of it.
My wife grew up in that poor Appalachia atmosphere and she beat feet ASAP. It’s a welfare state.
I remember the rather pretentious music video put out by the group En Vogue, entitled “Free Your Mind”.
It was mostly whining about how black women are mistreated when shopping for high end stuff. One of the big complaints was that store employees stare at them.
Yet at the same time, their costumes and hairstyles were so bizarre they looked like space aliens.
“Quit staring at me because I’m black!”
“Lady, does everyone on the Klingon home world speak English?”
“Shopliff we much!”
Problem solved. Just have their own stores. No need for inventory controllers.
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