Civil Litigation
Jul. 10, 2020
Black couple sue Nike after being accused of basketball theft
A Black couple has sued Nike Inc. for racial profiling stemming from a July 2019 incident in which a store employee accused them of stealing a $12 basketball and subsequently alerted law enforcement.
A Black couple falsely accused of stealing a basketball from the Nike store in Santa Monica sued the company, alleging employees racially profiled and called the police on them.
"We want accountability. We want Nike to stop using a hypocritical ad campaign while at the same time, allowing its store employees to profile individuals," attorney Dan Stormer of Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai LLP told a press conference Thursday. "This has ...
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