Last month, five young Black men were targeted and brutally assaulted by security while shopping at an Alabama mall. The young men, their families and their attorneys are demanding justice.
According to NewsOne, the five young men, ranging from 15 years old to 20 years old, were stopped by private security before entering the building. The group was walking into The Shoppes at Bel Air in Mobile, Alabama to buy clothes for the Fourth of July when they were met with hostile and excessive force.
Video footage of the incident shows mall security pinning one of the young men to the ground. One of the boys, Cameron Robinson, was attacked and bitten several times by a security dog.
“He told me I could have got worse than what the dog did. He was saying he could have shot me,” said victim Cameron Robinson.
Attorneys L. Chris Stewart and Justin Miller have announced that a $25 million lawsuit will be filed this week against the company that owns the mall and its primary security company. The attorneys are also demanding that the canine handler be fired.
These four young men are launching a multimillion dollar lawsuit after allegedly being racially profiled and illegally detained at a Mobile mall. One of their friends was also slammed on his head and attacked by K-9 unit. Follow @aldotcom for more. pic.twitter.com/2FUEANF3s2
— Christopher Harress (@Charress) July 1, 2019
“Just to see him sitting on the curb, bleeding, looking up at me, crying, saying ‘mama they put the dog on me. I didn’t do anything.’ It just broke my heart," said Calandra Smith, mother of Robinson.
