A 24-year-old Haitian woman who claims she was traumatized by JCPenney security guards after being wrongly accused of shoplifting has filed a class-action suit accusing the store of racial profiling. Claudie Pierre claims a security guard called her a "black bitch" while she was held for three hours in a Queens store's "detention area," along with a number of other nonwhite customers, on suspicion of shoplifting a year ago today.
Posted by Editor at September 22, 2003 01:51 PM