PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — DDA Multnomah County grand jury has ordered Walmart to pay $4.4 million in damages to a man who sued the store, saying he was racially profiled & harassed by a Walmart employee at a Portland, Oregon, area store in 2020.
According to the lawsuit the employee “spied” on Michael Mangum while shopping, ordered him to leave and called police when he refused.
Mangum, who was 59 at the time, visited the Walmart to buy a light bulb for his refrigerator. After Mangum arrived, he noticed store employee Joe Williams watching him as he shopped.
Williams told Mangum to leave the store, but Mangum refused, saying he’d done nothing wrong. Williams told Mangum he was going to call the police & tell them Mangum had threatened to “smash him in the face.”
Williams called the non-emergency police dispatch line & told the operator he “had a person refusing to leave.”
Deputies from the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office responded & “refused to take action against Mangum.” Deputies made that decision based on Williams’ “shifting explanations” for the reason he called & because of his “reputation for making false reports to police.”
The next day, Sheriff’s Sergeant Bryan White & another deputy met with the director of the Walmart & explained that deputies had noticed a “pattern of behavior” in which Williams would call police to report “dangerous active situations, such as customers physically assaulting him or other employees,” that were not happening.
Walmart corporate officials kept him on the job for several more months & fired him in July 2020 for “mishandling $35 of Walmart property.”
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