In an incident characterized as racial profiling by her attorneys, a black Michigan woman says she was forced to expose her body to employees at a Detroit-area Target after being falsely accused of stealing a bikini from the store. Ashanae Davis, 20, said she had been walking out of a Target in Southfield on May 22 when a male security worker, who was black, grabbed her by the arm and prevented her from leaving. Davis’ lawyers called this humiliating practice the “Target Walk of Shame,” which they described as a “de facto policy” at Target stores nationwide aimed at embarrassing would-be shoplifters. “At first I was in shock, of course, and it was just very humiliating,” Davis told WXYZ-TV of the ordeal. The retailer later told NBC News that it was the black security worker who’d lost his job.

Source: Huffington Post June 06, 2018 10:52 UTC