Louis Gray says he was racially profiled after trying to buy spray paint to make over his son’s bicycle helmet

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    8 months ago

    He looks like he’s probably at least 25 but if I could get in trouble for being wrong, I think I would card him.

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      8 months ago

      And would you additionally say that "We can’t serve you, you could be doing graffiti with this” as was claimed in the article?

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        8 months ago

        Maybe, if he asked me why I wouldn’t sell him the spray paint without seeing his id. In that case, it would be an explanation of why the id-check policy exists, not an expression of my belief that he looked like a vandal. (Although by that point, I would suspect that he might be up to no good specifically because he was refusing to show me his ID.)

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          8 months ago

          But you would sell it to an ID-less older white guy no problem, as they did? This guy does not look like he’s 25 or under.

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            8 months ago

            I had a noticably receding hairline before I was 25. I’d sell to someone who looked old enough to be his dad without needing id, but if I could get in trouble for not carding someone I should have carded, I wouldn’t bet my job on the fact that he isn’t an older-looking 24.