Macy’s Imprisons Minority Customers and Extorts Them for Bogus Fines: Suit
(DNAINFO) Maya Rajamani | December 3, 2015 —Cynthia Carolina Reyes Orellana had just finished trying on a set of shirts at Macy’s in Herald Square one evening last summer, when she carried the two she planned to buy out of the dressing room and down the escalator to the floor below to continue shopping.
But as soon as the 29-year-old stepped off the escalator, a Macy’s security guard grabbed her, seized her purse, accused her of planning to steal the shirts and forcibly escorted her to a holding cell on a lower floor, according to a lawsuit.
Over the next three hours, she was searched, questioned, denied access to her phone to contact a lawyer or her family and ordered to admit her guilt by signing legal papers and forced to pay a $100 fine in cash before the security staff turned her over to the NYPD, according to the suit.