If a shop asked me for ID for a cash purchase they’d lose the sale.
I imagine when dems see something like this, they figure if he can afford a $350 belt, he can afford health insurance.
Was the cop named Zimmerman?
This was a royal screw-up.
Between the NYPD and Holder’s people it’s impossible to know whom to believe on this one. I’m quite sure there’s more to the story.
Wait — wait — wait....a college student buying a $350 belt working part time...uhm...I wonder if he’s getting a govt grant/load - made some type of excuse to have his college paid for...the only thing I paid $350 for when I was in college was my BOOKS!!!!!
times are changing or people’s priorities are...
I beg to differ, he has a job, he pays for things with his own money, and has valid ID. There’s no way he’s related to Obama.
0bama will jump on this one over a belt.
Murders by Trayvons, not so much.
The only time I have ever worn a whole outfit that cost $350 was either a dress military uniform or my flight gear. $350 for a belt?!
it is his right to waste his money as he sees fit.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the police confiscated it and all the money in his bank account because they thought it MIGHT have come from drug profits.
Just another day in the worker’s paradise/police state.
End the WOD, now.
Sounds like the kid has a legit grievance....
He had a receipt....case closed...
Brothas need to keep their pants up.
Hope he wins his suit.
A young black man using a belt, any belt, is an odd occurance.
Anf now he has won he lawsuit lottery and will force Barney’s to write him a big check.
I’m a white female with no arrest record. Let’s say I go into an upscale department store and use my debit card to buy a $350 bag, for which I show my I.D. to the cashier during the transaction. A block from the store I’m stopped by two police officers who have the unmitigated gall to ask me how I could afford an expensive bag like that. The officers ask to see my I.D., my debit card, and my receipt for the bag, all of which I show them (though I have no idea why they’re entitled to this!). Then, the two officers handcuff me and take me to jail.
I promise you, if these circumstances occur to me, I will sue the police department and the department store too. I don’t know why the officers stopped this kid, or what truly set off this unreasonable chain of circumstances. Assuming it happened the way this kid says it did, I can understand him thinking that his skin color must be the explanation. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. At this point, neither you nor I know.
I am not sure the store has any liability, all they did was report him as suspicious. Probably some law compels them to do so. The store did not arrest him nor was he arrested in the store.
The taxpayers will be paying for this one, as usual.
He’s Trayon, which is very similar to Trayvon. Hmmm...................
Yeah, that makes sense. $1,000 tennis sneakers, $350 belt and a clown suit. Doesn’t this boy have a father? [crickets chirping]