White Collective Power/White Supremacy = When a white owned and operated business targets Black customers and works to exclude them from their premises and the police support and defend the company's "right" to do so - while the white media pretends any incidents are isolated or individualistic, not systematic. [MORE]
From [HERE] Another department store customer came forward Sunday with the fourth “shopping while black” complaint in a week — a customer who says he was surrounded by cops after a legitimate purchase at Macy’s Herald Square in New York. In an eerie echo of the three prior allegations of racial profiling last week, Art Palmer said four plainclothes cops questioned him just three blocks away from the flagship store after he bought $320 worth of Polo dress shirts and ties April 24.
Palmer, a 56-year-old exercise trainer from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, said he made the purchase without incident, using both his Macy’s platinum card and his American Express card.
He was walking to a gym on Park Ave. when police surrounded him and demanded to see his ID. The officers said they were suspicious because they had lost sight of him [probable cause for what offense?] on the store’s surveillance cameras, he said.
“The reason why we stopped you was because you were standing in an area at Macy’s where we could not see you,” one of the officers said, Palmer told reporters Sunday.
When asked if he believed he was racially (targeted) profiled, he said, “There was no other reason.”
He was allowed to continue on his way after he showed his receipt for the duds and the cards with which he purchased them.
When Palmer returned to the store the next day to complain, a Macy’s manager blamed it on the cops and said officers frequently come into the store to monitor surveillance videos without permission, according to Palmer. [white supremacy is carried out through deceit and/or violence]
The case is similar to claims made by two other black patrons at Barneys and another African-American at Macy’s — all of whom said they were targeted by cops after making pricey credit card purchases.