Black Man Files Lawsuit After Alleging He Was Falsely Detained For Shoplifting in Ohio
A Ohio man has filed a lawsuit against two police officers and convenience store after he was detained for shoplifting, while the actually person who committed the crime was a white man. Eric Lindsay, a Black man was wearing a puffy orange cost when he went to the Meijer store on his way home from work in January of last year according to Fox 19. Lindsay happened to walk into the store shortly after a shoplifting crime had took place.
The shoplifting suspect has been described as white in his 30s wearing a green or gray coat with a red hoodie underneath. Then as Lindsay, a Black man in his 60s walked in, he was stopped by police. Lindsay is now suing over his unlawful detention. The suit says he, “suffered humiliation, embarrassment, and severe emotional distress.”
“In the same being as so many national instances where African-Americans have been confronted by law enforcement for engaging in their daily lives and doing nothing illegal, this case is about the unsupportable and illegal profiling, detention, accusing, and interrogation of an African-American customer by Police Officers and the complicit actions of the retail store where it occurred,” the lawsuit said.
Body-camera footage shows police ordering Lindsay to take his hands out of his jacket pockets while accusing him of concealing items in the jacket, The Daily Beast reports. Lindsay’s attorney, Fanon Rucker, said Lindsay was the only African-American in the store and “is the last person they should have stopped.
While the store clerk and officers later apologized to Lindsay, the suit says the encounter reflected the racial profiling many people of color are subjected to on a regular basis.
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