The Rev. Al Sharpton will meet with Macy’s CEO Monday to discuss allegations of racial profiling at the retailer’s flagship store in Herald Square.
“We’re trying to get everyone on record on what their security policies are and evaluate their procedures,” Sharpton told the Daily News on Saturday. “I think we are going to see the validity of these claims, which will lead to a major policy shift in stores and some real discussions of racial profiling in this city.”
“Treme” star Rob Brown is suing Macy’s after cops “paraded” him through the Herald Square store in handcuffs and detained him for an hour after he bought a watch for his mother.
Macy’s emphatically denies that it racially profiled Brown.
“Macy’s personnel were not involved in Mr. Brown’s detention or questioning,” spokeswoman Elina Kazan said. “This was an operation of the New York City Police Department.”
Sharpton told National Action Network members Saturday that Monday’s sit-down will be similar to the one he had last week with Barneys CEO Mark Lee.
Yet that get-together left him thinking that Barneys may be full of blarney.
“The story that they’re telling us at Barneys we question because there are things that do not make sense,” Sharpton said at the action network’s weekly meeting in Harlem. “The CEO told us that they didn’t call the police. But if they didn’t call the police, then how in two incidents were two different shoppers stopped after they left the store?”
“Somewhere between the store and the police there’s some profiling going on, and somebody’s got to be held accountable,” said Sharpton.
