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Shopper goes to Victoria's Secret to get sensor removed from bra, and gets handcuffed
By DAVID BOROFF
JUN 08, 2018 | 1:45 PM
Jovita Jones Cage says she was racially profiled and handcuffed while shopping at a Victoria's Secret. (WREG Memphis)
A Victoria's Secret shopper in Tennessee who was cuffed after getting a sensor removed from a bra says she was racially profiled.
Jovita Jones Cage was shopping in the Collierville store on Monday when she was stopped by a police officer. She was only in the store because an employee had previously made a mistake by leaving the sensor on the bra.
Jones Cage was heading to the dressing rooms when the officer treated her like a criminal, she said.
"He could have asked, 'Ma'am, can I search your bag?’ He didn't do any of that," she told the Journal-Constitution. "He just came in and (slapped) handcuffs on me. He made up in his mind I was guilty."
Jones Cage says that the manager of the store called police without even speaking with her beforehand.
"I think it was for the simple fact that I was black," she told WREG.
Victoria's Secret apologized to Jones Cage and said that the associate involved in the incident is no longer employed by the company.
"We are committed to delivering an excellent shopping experience to every customer, every time ... we have work to do – and we are dedicated to this mission," the statement read.
The company offered Jones Cage a $100 gift card, but she turned it down.
"I told her a $100 gift card is not going to take back the discrimination, humiliation, defamation that I faced in that store that day," she told the Journal-Constitution.
David Boroff
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Breaking news reporter David Boroff has worked for the Daily News since 2006. A native New Yorker, Boroff loves everything about the city, especially the great restaurants, the theater and Central Park. And he is endlessly (and hopelessly) rooting for the Mets, Jets and Knicks to return to glory.
By DAVID BOROFF
JUN 08, 2018 | 1:45 PM
Jovita Jones Cage says she was racially profiled and handcuffed while shopping at a Victoria's Secret. (WREG Memphis)
A Victoria's Secret shopper in Tennessee who was cuffed after getting a sensor removed from a bra says she was racially profiled.
Jovita Jones Cage was shopping in the Collierville store on Monday when she was stopped by a police officer. She was only in the store because an employee had previously made a mistake by leaving the sensor on the bra.
Jones Cage was heading to the dressing rooms when the officer treated her like a criminal, she said.
"He could have asked, 'Ma'am, can I search your bag?’ He didn't do any of that," she told the Journal-Constitution. "He just came in and (slapped) handcuffs on me. He made up in his mind I was guilty."
Jones Cage says that the manager of the store called police without even speaking with her beforehand.
"I think it was for the simple fact that I was black," she told WREG.
Victoria's Secret apologized to Jones Cage and said that the associate involved in the incident is no longer employed by the company.
"We are committed to delivering an excellent shopping experience to every customer, every time ... we have work to do – and we are dedicated to this mission," the statement read.
The company offered Jones Cage a $100 gift card, but she turned it down.
"I told her a $100 gift card is not going to take back the discrimination, humiliation, defamation that I faced in that store that day," she told the Journal-Constitution.
David Boroff
CONTACT
Breaking news reporter David Boroff has worked for the Daily News since 2006. A native New Yorker, Boroff loves everything about the city, especially the great restaurants, the theater and Central Park. And he is endlessly (and hopelessly) rooting for the Mets, Jets and Knicks to return to glory.