The family says that after they left the Nike store with the basketball they had purchased, the manager followed them outside, demanding that they 'return the ball you stole.'
A black family says they were racially-profiled by a Nike manager in Santa Monica, Calif., and accused of stealing a $12 basketball they purchased for their 18-month-old son. The father involved in the incident said that the moment should have been a happy memory for the two, but instead, resulted in the police being called and the return of the purchased basketball.
"I thought to myself, I want to buy my son his first ball here at Nike because I really love the brand," Stallworth shared."Little did I know after purchasing this orange toddler size basketball that I would be followed and profiled as I leave the store." "I looked at her in disbelief. Like it was a joke but she wouldn’t stop following my family and I. She reached out saying again return the stolen ball," Stallworth wrote."I looked back at her and told her, 'I didn’t steal the ball, I paid for this' as we begin to exchange words I keep walking."Dickerson shared a video of the interaction, involving at least three police officers, on her Facebook page.
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