A black Oregon lawmaker says her daughter was the victim of racial profiling when a mall security guard asked her and her friends to leave a parking lot because they were 'loitering.'
A black Oregon lawmaker said her daughter was the victim of racial profiling when a mall security guard asked her and her friends to leave a parking lot because they were"loitering."
"They didn’t even know what the word meant. But they knew they had been profiled. And for what???" Bynum wrote. Chrissy and her friends were in the parking lot looking up alternative Saturday night plans on their phones because one of the girls had forgotten her license, and the group was turned away from an R-rated movie, Bynum added., is calling for a"loiter-in" at the mall this week.
Bynum said she reviewed Clackamas Town Center rules and did not find any specifying a time limit for sitting in the parking lot.
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