Black teens wrongfully detained in Target, company apologizes - TheGrio
Three Black teens were wrongly detained at a Target in Westlake Village, California during a grand theft investigation according to police.
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Three Black teens were wrongly detained at a Target in Westlake Village, California during a grand theft investigation according to police.
Black Teens Wrongly Accused, Detained At Westlake Village Target - CBS Local News _____________________________________
Target apologizes after three Black teens wrongfully detained at California store KATE FELDMAN Three Black teenagers were handcuffed and detained at a California Target, wrongfully accused of shoplifting. Now, the security guard has been fired and Target has apologized. Malik Aaron, Aaron Frederickson and Greg Kim, all 16 or 17, were buying snacks at the Westlake Village Target after their weekly high school ministry at Calvary Community Church last weekend when they were stopped by a store employee who had seen a group of Black men shoplifting iPhones. The teens tried to leav...
A group of Black teenagers were detained by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies inside a Westlake Village Target store after they were wrongfully accused of shoplifting.
*Cell phone video of three Black teenagers — ages 16 and 17 — being detained by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies inside of a target in Southern California has gone viral and prompted an apology from the retail giant. The incident happened at the Target in Westlake Village. Video shows deputies holding the teens’ arms behind their backs and pushing them up against a checkout counter. “I was thinking I was going to die that night,” 17-year-old Malik Aaron told KCAL-9. “I already had that mindset that they were either going to kill me or one of my friends.” Aaron said he an...