Two Black men accused Walmart of racial discrimination file lawsuit
Two men in their 50s have filed a lawsuit against Walmart saying that the store falsely accused them of stealing when they were returning a TV.
The plaintiffs Dennis Stewart, a former police officer, and Terence Richardson, a pastor, were handcuff at a Walmart in the Houston suburb of Conroe, Texas by police. The men were handcuffed after trying to return a $300 TV last September the lawsuit says. Stewart purchased the TV earlier in the day, but says it wasn’t working, there he wanted to return it. The two men claim that when they went to return the TV, a white employee at the customer-service counter accused them of stealing it. Then refused to acknowledge their receipt as proof of purchase according to Insider Edition. The men said employee called the police. The lawsuit says the police arrived, handcuffed them, and took them to the loss-prevention office, where Stewart was alleged to have broken down in tears. The lawsuit was filed last week in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Courthouse News reported.
The police later released Stewart and Richardson, however, the lawsuit claims the store manager asked the pair to sign a paper confirming they would be arrested if they returned to the store. The men claim a Walmart associate yelled at them “Take this f—ing receipt, take that f—ing TV, get the f— out of this store, and never f—ing come back.”
The suit said the two men were “regularly tormented and awakened from their sleep with nightmares about what they experienced at the Walmart.”
“Such treatment hurts so deeply it is impossible to describe,” it said. “It is like a cancer that eats at them every moment of the day — causing them to try to avoid people they think might be inclined to act the same way toward them.”
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