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A 19-year-old college student from Queens says he was handcuffed and locked in a jail cell after buying a $350 designer belt at Barneys on New York's Madison Avenue because he is "a young black man."

Trayon Christian told NBC 4 New York on Wednesday that he saved up from a part-time job for weeks to buy a Salvatore Ferragamo belt at Barneys.

When he went to the store to buy it in April, he says the checkout clerk asked to see his identification. After the sale went through and he left the store, he was approached by police about a block away, and asked "how a young black man such as himself could afford to purchase such an expensive belt," according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Officers hauled Christian to the local precinct, where he showed police his identification, as well as his debit card and the receipt for the belt, the lawsuit says.

Police still believed Christian's identification was fake, and eventually called his bank, which verified it was his, according to the complaint. Christian, who has no prior arrests, was released.

He told NBC 4 New York that questions were racing through his mind while he went through the painful experience of being handcuffed and taken to a cell.

"Why me? I guess because I'm a young black man, and you know, people do a credit card scam so they probably thought that I was one of them," Christian said. "They probably think that black people don't have money like that."

He later returned the belt to Barneys because he says he "didn't want to have nothing to do with it."

He is suing the city and the luxury department store for unspecified damages as a result of "great physical and mental distress and humiliation."

Christian's attorney, Michael Palillo, told the Post, "His only crime was being a young black man."

Barneys said in a statement Wednesday that none of its employees was involved in any action with Christian other than the sale, and added that the store "has zero tolerance for any form of discrimination."


of course the facebook liberal crowd is making this story all about race, but personally i am happy that the police are finally focusing their attention on one of the greatest crimes in america: conspicuous consumption. i think if we start arresting people and prosecuting them for buying ludicrously expensive luxury items, they might think twice before doing so in the future

of course, it also highlights the overly litigious nature of american society, but as a lawyer i think thats way overstated
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TG posted:

Trayon Christian told NBC 4 New York on Wednesday that he saved up from a part-time job for weeks to buy a Salvatore Ferragamo belt at Barneys.

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He later returned the belt to Barneys because he says he "didn't want to have nothing to do with it."

Sounds like he grew from the experience.

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why didn't he listen to macklemore's advice and go to the thrift shop
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Mike Nelson here.
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pop some tags, ninja!
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ilmdge posted:

TG posted:

Trayon Christian told NBC 4 New York on Wednesday that he saved up from a part-time job for weeks to buy a Salvatore Ferragamo belt at Barneys.

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He later returned the belt to Barneys because he says he "didn't want to have nothing to do with it."

Sounds like he grew from the experience.



obviously the police think hes still capable of salvation, unlike the decadent bourgeois women who regularly perform such wasteful acts of commerce

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Justice for Trayon
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Mike Nelson here.
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if obama had a son he would buy expensive belts
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meet me in st louis
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ilmdge posted:

TG posted:

Trayon Christian told NBC 4 New York on Wednesday that he saved up from a part-time job for weeks to buy a Salvatore Ferragamo belt at Barneys.

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He later returned the belt to Barneys because he says he "didn't want to have nothing to do with it."

Sounds like he grew from the experience.



yeah he should thanking the police

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in other news

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/blonde-girl-roma-parents-returned-dna

Irish police return blonde girl to Roma family

Embarrassing U-turn comes after DNA tests prove that girl put into care, 7, is biological daughter of Dublin couple
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someone forgot to tell this guy that if you wear poor peoples clothes cops wont bug ya
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TG posted:

of course, it also highlights the overly litigious nature of american society, but as a lawyer i think thats way overstated



someone make a Rhizzone Attorney Crew gang tag, tia

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VoxNihili posted:

TG posted:

of course, it also highlights the overly litigious nature of american society, but as a lawyer i think thats way overstated

someone make a Rhizzone Attorney Crew gang tag, tia

Law offices of Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Stalin and Fringus

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Law Offices of Fringus Mingus Dingus & Goldstein-Shapiro
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N S D &P
Attorneys at Law
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VoxNihili posted:

TG posted:

of course, it also highlights the overly litigious nature of american society, but as a lawyer i think thats way overstated

someone make a Rhizzone Attorney Crew gang tag, tia



i don't want to belong to any crew that will accept people like lykourgos as a member

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a second black shopper has hit the barneys tower:

http://nypost.com/2013/10/23/another-black-shopper-accuses-barneys-of-racism/
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it's liberalism's fault for creating the stereotype of the poor starving minority
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we've got a code 88, young colored individual with inappropriate status symbol. please advise, over
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TG posted:

VoxNihili posted:

TG posted:

of course, it also highlights the overly litigious nature of american society, but as a lawyer i think thats way overstated

someone make a Rhizzone Attorney Crew gang tag, tia

i don't want to belong to any crew that will accept people like lykourgos as a member



you should have considered that before becoming a lawyer

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if i knew about grumblefish before i applied to law school, it certainly would have made me take pause and reevaluate my life choices
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VoxNihili posted:

we've got a code 88, young colored individual with inappropriate status symbol. please advise, over



a gangsta rap belt is a status symbol? how far has the jewish media gone

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ae4g5g6hsdfgh posted:

VoxNihili posted:

we've got a code 88, young colored individual with inappropriate status symbol. please advise, over

a gangsta rap belt is a status symbol? how far has the jewish media gone



Stop posting

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VoxNihili posted:

you should have considered that before becoming a lawyer



No it's good, I keep hearing from defendants that a PD isn't a lawyer

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and that's a joke; I rank a lot of the PDs I work with (and get along with well and interact with every day) above your average private counsel.
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that post was unfair to you lykorgos, if anything its the majority of people i met in law school and practicing law that wouldve made me take pause first
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so SUE ME! hahahaha