world. and watching it happen from this desk every day with jim cramer is a it s a gift every day. tomorrow at this time, carl tells me about his experience covering hurricane katrina and gives us his take on the financial health of some top tech companies. the fascinating story behind how barney s security decided to follow and stop a paying customer out the door. now there s a demand for answers regarding alleged racial profiling. to pay, and we give you a range of coverages to choose from. who is she? that s flobot. she s this new robot we re trying out, mostly for, like, small stuff. wow! look at her go! she s pretty good. she s pretty good. hey, flobot, great job. oops. [ powers down ] uh-oh, flobot is broken. the name your price tool, only from progressive. call or click today. who works from the coffee shop and uses the free wi-fi. marie works from there too.
undercover police officers who thought he couldn t afford it. why? what prompted them to detain these guys? what was it? that is what we still don t know and what everyone is trying to find out. all we know at this point, the nypd said they were on the premises in the security room of barney s for an unrelated issue. the nypd says his purchase was flagged while they were in the barney s security room by somebody in barney s. barney s said their preliminary investigation indicates their people had nothing to do with it. what seems to have happened is he did get outside. he was stopped by police officers. he said that they questioned his ability to afford such a pricey item. they asked him how he got the money and asked him for i.d. he gave it to them. he says in his lawsuit he was cuffed and taken to the nearby precinct house and held for about two hours. the nypd says about 45 minutes. now, it used to be that stores monitored a customer had he deemed suspicious till an
and secondly, how widespread do you think it is that if you are african-american and you buy something expensive in macy s or barney s you have to chance of being taken to the side and handcuff snd. well, we found the story, i can t take all the credit. it was a veteran reporter of ours that found the lawsuit when it was filed about ten days ago here in manhattan supreme court. she earmarked it as this is an important issue and we need to get it to the office. it came to us in the office. we got on it right away. we got the the lawyer, his house, parents, talked to the nypd and barney s. what did you find? what he was saying is he was shopping for a belt. it was one he knew specifically he wanted worn by one of his favorite rappers. he went in to the belt he
she had a temporary bank of america debit card without her name but she got in the mail, the actual card. she had not called to activate it. she went and bought the $2,500 bag, knew what she wanted, orange suedes beautiful purse. present to herself. with a tax refund. she does say she remembers the clerk getting a phone call during her transaction. the clerk just saying things like mm-hmm, yes, no. we have been dealing with racial profiling cases for years. when we saw this being national network, we immediately contacted the lawyer for one. we called for a meeting with the president of barney s who did come up to our headquarters in harlem. we had other civil rights leaders. he says they did not make the complaint to police. i said if you didn t make the
the cops are saying it s you. what are they saying to you? we are caught in the middle. if you have a receipt, a debit card and shopping bag, how can they take them down? it s mind boggling. my other question is why is this coming out now? it s not like they woke up one day saying let s do this. itis been going on a long time. it has been going on a long time. a lot of people have been dismissed. we have been bringing it up. i think, to the credit of the daily news when they went on the front page, people started saying this is crazy. people that come forward, it s brave. right. what do we expect from the attorney general s office today? they are following up on this. they are meeting, supposed to be getting data from barney s and macy s. macy s was the other two incidents that came forward. they are going to meet with two