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General gave them until friday to turnover policy information on stopping and questioned people. two african americans were stopped after buying at barneys. new york. they said no employees were involved and a macys flag ship store is investigated after two african americans claimed they were declined by police after making purchases. one is rob brown an actor. he says he was accused of buying an expensive watch with a fraud credit card. hes suing the store and the police department. macys said ...

Who said he went into barneys, bought a $349 belt and was detained when -- by security when they thought that he had used a fraudulent credit card. then we started hearing other cases come about. four claims in all, two from macys, two from barneys. another when a woman went in and bought a handbag for $2,500. we have the one at macys with the actor rob brown who went in and bought a $1,300 movado watch for his mother. the fourth one was a man named art brown who filed a complaint who said he wa...

Water reclaimation plants. how they discovered this is unclear. you go back to february of this year, shep, another body was found in a water tower of a hotel in downtown los angeles. that was drinking water. turn out to be a canadian. who were investigating this, soon we get more information, well get back to you. >> two new york city department stores are facing lawsuits after shoppers claimed the scores discriminated against them on the basis of race. customers at barneys, a very high-end dep...

Its being dubbed shop and frisk. some shoppers say they are wrongly accused of shoplifting because of their race. the latest accusation involves actor rob brown who said he was racially profiled and accused of using a fake credit card while purchasing an expensive watch at the flagship store in manhattan. brown was detained and handcuffed for an hour at macys. the company released a statement claiming its store personnel were not involved. >> star ledger new jersey governor chris christie is get...

Its not a fake card. i just bought this watch. they werent hearing it. all i kept hearing was its a fake card. youre going to jail. >> okay. hes an actor on hbos "tremea" his name is rob brown and he said he was racially profiled in macys in herald square, and undercover police officers arrested him and accused him of credit card fraud. brown is suing both macys and the nypd and macys said its investigating the allegations which comes on the heels of two african-american shoppers who recently bo...

Regret and deep apologies. be want to reinforce that barneys new york has zero tolerance for any form of discrimination. the new york police department says its investigating the incident. jay-zs representatives have not commented but kayla phillips hopes they do. >> when he hears about it hell get involved and make the right choice. >> reporter: and jay-z isnt the only star in the middle of the controversy, robert brown filed a lawsuit this week against macys. brown says he, too, was the victim...