Store clerk called 911 on man for being 'arrogant' and 'black'

[left-of-center2012]

A college student visiting New Mexico says he was racially profiled by a store clerk who was captured on camera calling the police, saying she wanted the student to leave the store because he was being “arrogant” and “black.”

Jordan McDowell, a 22-year-old Xavier University student who was visiting Santa Fe ,recorded part of the exchange between him and the Allsup clerk on his cell phone. In footage captured of the incident, the employee can be heard saying while on the phone with what is presumed to be a 911 dispatcher: “And I want him out of the store right now.” The employee can then be heard saying after pausing momentarily, “because he's being arrogant, because he's black."

“In that moment, the only thing I felt at that small moment was rage," McDowell told KRQE of the incident, which occurred last Friday. “But at the same time, too, I understood that racism in America never truly died.”

McDowell said the employee called the police on him after he purchased some Sour Patch Kids and proceeded to look around for other items to buy. “They said I was sketchy because I picked stuff up, put stuff back,” McDowell told the local station.

McDowell said after the police arrived he and the clerk spoke with an officer who determined he hadn’t done anything wrong. The store clerk repeatedly denied speaking of the student’s race when talking to the local station, even after being showed the clip of the incident.

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[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Add that to the list of "___ while black" crimes.

BEING ARROGANT while black.

[More_Cowbell]

2. "clerk repeatedly denied speaking of the student's race, even after being showed the clip"

People don't even hear themselves saying it. They deny it when it's on tape. Some people will *never* see their own bias.

[brer cat]

3. Well, the store manager did say it was "unacceptable."

Does that mitigate anything? No, I didn't think so. Corporate ducking reporters and manager not apologizing as well as firing the employee doesn't speak well of the culture there.

We are not going to solve the problem, but at a minimum, there should be a very stiff fine for these ridiculous calls to 911.

[heaven05]

4. just getting

out of hand. Why do white people hold so much hate for AA? especially. Cause we want the same rights they have and they just can't have it threatened, it being their white privilege and entitlement to feel they are better than any black person up to and including a very competent and loved POTUS and FLOTUS? Geez these people like this and those arriving in D.C. are dumptrump's footsoldiers, brownshirts as it were, with Hitler. I am not fooled. When this goddamn POS called potus is finally run out of office, shit will hit the fan racially, on the class level and culturally. This country is headed for bad bad times

[heaven05]

5. just getting

out of hand. Why do white people hold so much hate for AA? especially. Cause we want the same rights they have and they just can't have it threatened, it being their white privilege and entitlement to feel they are better than any black person up to and including a very competent and loved POTUS and FLOTUS? Geez these people like this and those arriving in D.C. are dumptrump's footsoldiers, brownshirts as it were, with Hitler. I am not fooled. When this goddamn POS called potus is finally run out of office, shit will hit the fan racially, on the class level and culturally. This country is headed for bad, bad times