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Charlene White Says She Was Racially Profiled by Security Guard in High-Street Shop

She frames the episode as part of repeated profiling that has compounded recent grief.

Overview

  • Charlene White says a security guard followed her in a well-known stationery shop while she went in to buy a birthday card.
  • She describes the treatment as racial profiling and says she noticed she was the only Black shopper in the store.
  • She writes that it was the third similar encounter in a week and says it left her feeling "pretty s***" about herself.
  • In her account, she connects the experience to a difficult period after her father's death and the strain of presenting live TV while grieving.
  • The reports cite her first-person piece in the i newspaper and do not name the retailer or note any official response so far.