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Demovictory9

(32,457 posts)
Thu Aug 9, 2018, 11:54 PM Aug 2018

clerk - "I want him out of the store right now", "Because he's being arrogant, because he's black."

Clerk Calls Cops on New Mexico Student for Being ‘Arrogant and Black’


https://www.thedailybeast.com/clerk-calls-cops-on-new-mexico-student-for-being-arrogant-and-black

A convenience-store clerk in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reportedly called the police on a 22-year-old college student because he was “arrogant” and “black.” The female employee was caught on cellphone video by pre-med student Jordan McDowell, who told local station KRQE that he was racially profiled when he went into the store to buy Sour Patch Kids candy. “And I want him out of the store right now,” the clerk can he heard saying on video talking on the phone. After a pause, the clerk says: “Because he’s being arrogant, because he’s black.” McDowell, who attends Xavier University, said the store clerk accused him of being “sketchy” before she called the cops. “There’s nothing right about this, there’s nothing right to call the police on someone just because of their skin tone,” McDowell told KRQE. “I just want everyone to know you still have a voice, you can speak up, you still can do your part and that’s what I’m going to continue to do.” The store employee didn’t comment to the station, but a manager told the news outlet that the clerk’s behavior was “unacceptable.”



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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmx3p/store-cops-candy-black-arrogant-jordan-mcdowell-vgtrn

Friday night started off pretty unremarkably for Jordan McDowell. The 22-year-old college student was on a quest to buy some Sour Patch Kids, so he made a stop at a local convenience store. But after perusing some of the aisles, he started to get the feeling that someone was watching him.

"She had been in the corner the whole time watching," McDowell told KRQE.

What by all accounts should have been a routine trip to the store suddenly took a scary turn: Out of nowhere, the clerk of the store called him “sketchy.” Then she picked up a phone and dialed 911.


“The first thing that popped in my mind absolutely was just discrimination,” McDowell said.

McDowell pulled out his phone and started recording. While he filmed the clerk, he watched her tell the cops, “I want him out of the store right now. Because he’s arrogant, because he’s black.”

“Oh, so I’m arrogant because I’m black?” McDowell shot back.

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clerk - "I want him out of the store right now", "Because he's being arrogant, because he's black." (Original Post) Demovictory9 Aug 2018 OP
Disgusting . Again a fine, citation -something to try to stop it from happening again lunasun Aug 2018 #1
She should be fired. Solly Mack Aug 2018 #2
She Should Have Already Been Fired LandOfHopeAndDreams Aug 2018 #3
I agree. Should have already happened. Solly Mack Aug 2018 #5
So he's uppity. You mine as well use the old language woman. We know what you really mean. rusty quoin Aug 2018 #4
WATCH: New Mexico store clerk calls 911 on customer for being 'arrogant and black' Gothmog Aug 2018 #6

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
1. Disgusting . Again a fine, citation -something to try to stop it from happening again
Fri Aug 10, 2018, 12:06 AM
Aug 2018

Maybe a corporate fine if a corp is involved then they will hire better people
Sketchy? Crime?

 
3. She Should Have Already Been Fired
Fri Aug 10, 2018, 12:10 AM
Aug 2018

Why in the hell does she apparently still have a job? Related to the owner?

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