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In an interview Saturday, Moses said that racially discriminatory "profiles" of likely shoplifters were common in stores throughout the Square.
Moses then told the manager that the guards had stopped her because she is Black, she said. When Moses asked the manager why she had been suspected, he replied that she had probably intended to steal the CD, but later decided against it, according to her account.
"There's this profile that people have. You see that young Black people are in the store, you think they're there to steal. It's not just a Coop problem, it's a societal problem," Moses said.
But at the December 14 meeting, the Coop officials denied that they used a profile to search out shoplifters, Moses said.
Moses said that she had still not received a written letter of apology from the store, as she had requested during the meeting. Argeros said at the meeting that the Coop's lawyers had advised him against issuing such a letter, she said.