Mark & Juanita wrote:


It's probably a bit pre-mature to assume that race was the motivating
factor here. How was the guy dressed? If he was dressed down, is it
possible this was a trigger of suspicion? If a similarly dressed-down
white person had attempted the same thing would the same paranoia have
reigned at Walmart?



I have to agree. I don't think the article gives the entire story.

As a small business owner, for an order of this size, I would have
required that everything related to the purchase was prearranged and
approved, including who the authorized person would be that would be
picking up the order. It looks like many previous orders were
transacted and in this instance the HR manager was a new face. I
suspect this had a major impact on what transpired.


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Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA

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