Walmart’s $4.4 million payout for racial profiling
(KYMA, KECY/CNN) - Walmart has been ordered to pay 4-and-a-half million dollars to a man who says he was racially profiled while shopping.
The March 2020 incident happened in Portland, Oregon.
That’s where then-59-year-old Michael Mangum claims a white Walmart employee racially profiled him and tried to have law enforcement act on false charges.
On Friday, a jury awarded Mangum a total of 4.4 million dollars in damages.
Police did not act against Mangum after the incident.
They say that was due to – quote – shifting the blame on why the employee called - and because of the employee’s history of making false reports to the police.
