“Other than the fact that we were shopping while Black and that we had a lot of items in our cart, that’s really the only thing we could think of that they use as a really terrible excuse to call the cops on us.”
Two Black men in Ohio said they never before encountered the humiliation they experienced when they were targeted by armed cops for purchasing “high-ticket items” during a shopping trip to Bed, Bath & Beyond last week.
“So, apparently someone called and said they thought maybe we were shoplifting or something?” Richards asked the manager, explaining that he just spent $600 at the store.Still, Richards replied he didn’t understand why the cops were called specifically on the Black customers.The manager called over an employee who admitted to calling“It’s my right to call [the police],” the employee told Richards and Geer before moving behind a police officer.
“Two Black males,” one officer responded, explaining they let the situation go once they realized neither Richards nor Geer had anything “concealed.” “I was, quite honestly, scared and frightened because people that look like Austin and I have been arrested for much less,” Richards said. “When [the police] asked if we paid, and they did it in an authoritative way, that if that cashier—even for a minute—was hesitant, I felt like that could have ended very badly for us.
“That they have to address this bigoted behavior exhibited by their employees, their highest level of employees at that store,” he said.
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