Nordstrom Rack apologized to three black men falsely accused of stealing

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Nordstrom Rack has apologized to three black shoppers who say they were falsely accused of stealing from a suburban St. Louis store.

Police were called to a Brentwood store Thursday while 19-year-old college student Mekhi Lee and high school seniors Eric Rogers and Dirone Taylor were shopping for prom clothes.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the three left the store and police pulled into the parking lot. Officers told them that police had gotten a call about three black men shoplifting. Lee and the others showed police the items they had bought and a store receipt, and they were allowed to leave.

Nordstrom Rack apologized in a statement, saying it is enhancing its practices and training. The company said its president, Geevy Thomas, met with the three shoppers' families Tuesday to listen to their concerns and express disappointment that the situation occurred.

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Three black teenagers say they were shopping for prom clothes at a Nordstrom Rack when the cops were called.

Nineteen-year-old Mekhi Lee told KMOV that he and his friends Eric Rogers and Dirone Taylor were looking around the clothing store in Brentwood, Missouri, when they realized an employee was watching their every move. Lee is a freshman at Alabama A&M University, while Taylor and Rogers are graduating seniors at local high schools. Both Rogers and Taylor have full-ride college scholarships for football, KMOV reported.

"I was nervous the whole time," Lee told KMOV. "Every time we move, they move. When we looked up, they looked up."

Because of that, Lee said that he and his friends "moved to a farther part of the store" — but employees continued to watch them. He told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he nervously called his mom, who urged him to speak with a manager.

The teens never managed to find a manager, Lee said, and another customer came up to them and called one of the boys a "punk" before asking "are your parents proud of what you do?"

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