A Black customer was awarded $4.4 million in damages in racial profiling lawsuit against Walmart

 

(CNN)A jury in Oregon awarded a Black man $4.4 million in damages after he claimed in a lawsuit that a White Walmart employee racially profiled him while shopping and tried to have law enforcement act on false charges, according to court documents.

Michael Mangum was awarded $400,000 in non-economic damages and $4 million in punitive damages Friday, according to a news release issued by his attorney Sunday.

Walmart told CNN in a written statement that it does not tolerate discrimination and that the verdict is "excessive" and not supported by evidence. (...)