@Charlotte: But those baby strollers make for great hiding places. The baby may not be stealing, but all the accessories help enable the parent(s) to. It's a shame that some children are raised that it's totally ok to steal. To Megan's point. Amen, in my 25+ years working retail, it's always been stressed, to never assume based on appearance, but focus on behavior instead.Thieves tend to give themselves away. Had a Loss Prevention mgr tell us the story of how he was touring a store when they saw 2 guys walk in grab a canoe put it over their heads and walk out. Some random shopping even held the door assuming that no one would be that brazen.

I disagree. I have yet to see a new born shoving a pair of shoes inside it's romper...

@heather mack-scott It's also sad when people are raised racist too.

Lol Charlotte. I have seen a young as 2, it was out of a bulk foods bin and his mother brought him back and forced the store manager to tell him he was going to call the cops and throw him in jail. The kid just about pissed himself.

10+ years of working contract security makes me doubt that very much, actually. Race is a very poor indicator of a person's intention. Like when I ask a person if I can help them find someone... my intention is to be helpful. not, somehow, passive-aggressively tell people they don't belong. If I have some reason to believe you don't belong, I'll ask flat-out what your doing in my building. Race is never a reason to do that. Gender sometimes has been, however. (there was a lawyer that specialized in spousal abuse. Sometimes angry husbands showed up. They got to find out how I feel about spousal abuse.)

This is my experience too, at least in Germany black people ain´t shot by the police, but I see racism so often, at the stores, at authorities, downtown, everywhere, #BlackLivesMatter, and we´re all God´s children, no matter what colour of skin, religion, ethnical origin, gender or sexual direction we have!!!

Some stores are so deep in black areas they gotta suspect who they suspect they cannot wait for a Swedish tourist to walk in BUT ys still should have cause the cameras are right there.

There's also no doubt about him walking into a store wearing a jacket from said store, with the tag still on. Said jacket he got months ago. If I was stopped in an Old Navy because my jacket I got before still had a tag, I would stick up for myself, apologize for causing an event, and ask them to check the security cameras. Once the tapes confirm I came in with the jacket, I'd apologize and be on my merry way. I guess if I'm black(I'm not) I could've filmed it, posted it on facebook captioning "Racist! LOL", filed a lawsuit, got 3 minimum-wage workers probably working paycheck to paycheck fired, and be praised by the media. If only I was black.

Thus, all the clever thieves use young white girls yo do their shoplifting. At the peril of the Retailers. 2-types-of...bd0300.jpg

Most young people are profiled....whether black, white, Spanish.... it’s the age that’s profiled. Not color

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BS. Lisa

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What about the multiple white friends I've had that get watched like a hawk as soon as they enter a mall, a store, etc. I've had friends who have gone through this who were white(big surprise) but you don't see them marching up and down the streets making a big f*****g scene acting like the world owes them something. Black people aren't victims, the ones like you like having privilege and act like you had chains and shackles on 100+ years ago.

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It’s a matter of the bad blacks ruining things for the good ones, there’s a majority of prisons are filled with black guys and that really ruins things for the good black people

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15 years ago, definitely. not so much today. corporations will not tolerate it..what happened here was an anomaly, it's not the norm... and they all were destroyed. guess we're all happy now. I will sleep so much better knowing some clerks were canned.

A nice gift card for example would have helped with some huge apologies!

A simple "Oh we´re sorry, but we sell the same jackets too here" would´ve done it for James, I think, but NOPE, not a single sign of regret or any apologize!!!

That's just the subtle racism we as young black men face in this country. :-( sad-baby-5...e23479.gif

I think he didn't go apologize because he realized after the filming and calling the cashiers racist that this was a get-rich-quick-because-I'm-black and not a simple mistake and he didn't want to lose his job, be hated by the media, and get his life ruined by some piece of s**t. "Basic costumer service and human decency"? Say that to James.

add the 4 carry the one divide by pi.... 0 they stopped 0

This is anecdotal but I look white & am a young female. I have often walked into stores wearing merchandise I have purchased there & have never once been stopped & treated like this man was.

When I worked retail (2 diff companies) we weren't even allowed to confront a customer who looked suspicious unless they tried to walk out of the store with merchandise that we personally saw them steal. The scenario here is disrespectful & at least borders on illegal (it IS illegal where I live.)

Excellent question.

I don't know how many but I'd bet they were young and did not look so well to do. they profile everything and sometimes it's not done equally and most times that doesn't equal racism, just a bit of common sense. The store has to strictly define common sense stops and what is just cause. Smart shop lifters work in teams with a innocent one acting suspicious and while they are tied up with them they get the good stuff.

Even( he said with a tongue dripping with sarcasm)via GIPHY

I think you missed the point of Megans comment.

^ (STOOPID autocorrect...change "tack" to "tact" to make it right and remove the capital "A" where I was quoting Megan's comment, too. Also, add quotations at the beginning of my inclusion sentence and capitalize MY addition at the start of my suggested comment insertion. I suppose "I" should use a bit more care to be sure I don't throw rocks at folks in glass houses before I ensure MY house is in order, eh? LOL :-)

I didn't read the comment that way at all. I thought the OP was emphasizing how ignorant it was to profile the guy. I took it as a msg to Old Navy; like "Hey you dummy's, all thieves are not young, black guys." (and nor are all young, black guys thieves.)

I think you missed the point of Megans comment.

I think her point was that racial profiling is stupid because *everyone* steals. That assuming he was more likely to be a thief because he was a young black male was not only racist but flies in the face of what their experience (the manager anyway, no idea how much experience the clerks had) should have told them.