Family demands Nike for discrimination after incident of Santa Monica

A black family that alleges that a manager of the Santa Monica de Nike store unjustly accused them of having stolen in stores, filed a federal civil rights demand on Friday against the sportswear company and the former employee.

Joel Stallworth y su esposa TaMiya Dickerson sostienen que fueron acusados ​​por el gerente blanca de la tienda Wendy Magee de robar el baloncesto de niños de $12 el 5 de julio en 2019de la tienda Nike en Third Street Promenade.Dickerson published a video on Facebook shortly after, showing his little son Samuel holding the ball in the store.It also shows a copy of the receipt of your ball purchase.

A message to Nike in search of comments was not responded immediately, but after the video went viral last year, Nike said in a statement that he had communicated with the couple to "express our most sincere apologies".

Magee was fired and subsequently filed a lawsuit for unjustified dismissal against the company, according to the family complaint.

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The family's demand states that Magee followed the Stallworth outside the store and accused them of stealing the ball.Although the family told the manager that they had bought the ball, she called the Santa Monica police officers to ask for help.

Stallworth and Dickerson are heard in the video insisting that they bought the ball and had a receipt.After showing the receipt to the officers, Magee is seen to move away, with Dickerson demanding a refund and apology, saying that they were being discriminated against by their race.

The couple then returned to the store and returned the ball.

"This seems to be the American form for people like us," Stallworth wrote on a Facebook post."This happened to me many times personally.I hope my son never has to experience this again ".

Demand seeks not specified by alleged federal and state civil rights violations and lawyer fees.

According to the demand, "Nike has a whole responsibility of the horrible and deeply shameful experience that this family had to pass" ".