LA Fitness apologizes for racial profiling incident at New Jersey club
LA Fitness issued an apology after two black patrons were wrongly accused of not paying at a New Jersey club and were asked to leave, CNN reported. >> Read more trending news. Tshyrad Oates posted videos of the encounter, which occurred Sunday inĀ ...
Starbucks, LA Fitness and the long, racist history of America's loitering laws
About US is a new initiative by The Washington Post to cover issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. In January 1959, Sam Thompson entered the Liberty End Cafe in Louisville. While he waited to catch a bus nearby, he ...
LA Fitness employees called 911 on two black men they said didn't pay. They had.
Two black men were wrongly accused of not paying to use a gym in New Jersey and subsequently had the police called on them, days after a similar incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks catapulted the problem of racial profiling in commercial spaces into ...