Getting arrested for shopping while black

With the recent event at Barney’s, New York, it would appear that blacks should add S.W.B. or “Shopping While Black” to the list of supposed crimes for which we are racially profiled. Trayon Christian, a 19-year-old college student purchased a $350 Salvatore Ferragamo belt at Barney’s, Christian alleges that he was stopped by undercover officers, questioned, hand-cuffed and taken to a local precinct.

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