SO WHAT?!?! The close down the business and open up one with ZERO risk of robbery! Again, this is no excuse to profile! We should give them a pass because of the myth of the big black scary man?!?! That's RACIST! That's the definition of racial discrimination?! Why do you all keep suggesting past robberies ARE A LEGIT…

So you are saying it’s fine that she racially profiled him on a Monday because she had already done it the Friday before....

yeah it’s more like refusing to even let Oprah in the store because she’s black.

But you were let in and you didn't have to speak with police did you

Except that the person who robbed the store previously was White.

Kinja also has a gatekeeping process which clearly has failed us all.

Robberies? I’m seeing ONE robbery over the past two years. At any rate this does NOT warrant the bullshit reaction to the bigoted ass clerks in the store.

and yet you were able to enter and didn’t have the cops called on you. even though you possessed equally as much chance of being a thief as henson.

If this person was too scared due to the previous incident to allow any customers in, why didn’t they close? Because it seems as though they probably were allowing customers in, just not black customers. (This is worse than offering Oprah the cheaper purse and potentially a lot more dangerous for Henson. Black men get…

So two years ago they were robbed, they MUST be in the right by denying every black man entrance to their store.

It was intentionally locked by their purposeful and deliberate attempt to keep him out of the store. They are supposed to be buzzing people in, but they let the lock stand, effectively locking him out of the store.

I have a reaaaaaal hard time believing the robbers beared any resemblance to John Henson whatsoever, other than the fact that they may have also been black. The man is seven feet tall. Getting robbed sucks, but don’t try to sugarcoat this...

How exactly did they “bear a resemblance” to Henson? You realize he’s 7 feet tall right? I know people aren’t great at guessing height, but when you see a 7 foot tall person it’s pretty obvious they don’t look like a 6 foot tall person.