Target fires employee after black customer says she was racially profiled
Target fired an employee at a Michigan store on Monday, two weeks after a black customer was falsely accused of stealing a bikini and then forced to remove her clothing to prove her innocence, according to her attorney.
The development was the latest in a string of discriminatory practices that have dogged the retailer.
Ashanae Davis, 20, was exiting the Southfield, Michigan, store on May 22 when a Target security guard confronted her and claimed that she was wearing a stolen bikini bottom underneath her clothes, Davis' attorney, Jasmine Rand, said Monday.
A second guard then handcuffed her and dragged her through the store, yelling that she had stolen the bikini, Rand said.
The officers took her to a room. Once inside, a female manager was called in, and Davis was instructed to lift up her shirt and pull down her pants in front of the manager and the two male officers.
Davis said she felt "humiliated and forced" by the Target employees.
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