Michael Mangum said he was followed by a store security worker while shopping for a refrigerator light bulb.
A Black man in Oregon has been awarded a $4.4 million settlement after a jury decided he had been racially profiled while shopping at Walmart. last year against the retail giant and one of its employees, alleging that in March of 2020 he was followed around a store in Wood Village, Oregon, by a security worker and then asked to leave once he confronted the employee. Mangum had gone to the store to buy a light bulb for his refrigerator, according to the complaint.
"His jobs would have been at great risk had he been charged with a crime, but he refused to be intimidated by Williams' lies and bullying," Mangum's attorney, Gregory Kafoury of Portland, Oregon, said in a statement on Monday. "Mr. Mangum was never stopped by Walmart's Asset Protection," Hargrove said."He interfered with our associates as they were surveilling and then stopped confirmed shoplifters, and then refused to leave despite being asked to repeatedly by our staff and Multnomah County deputies."Known in the Black community as"Shopping While Black," retail racism occurs when a store employee assumes a person of color may shoplift and then trails or harasses the shopper.
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