Reports the NewYork Daily News:
Four plainclothes cops accused a black woman of credit card fraud after the Brooklyn mom bought a $2,500 designer bag from Barneys — stoking a fresh round of outrage against the high-end store.
Kayla Phillips, 21, a nursing student from Canarsie, told the Daily News she had long coveted the orange suede Céline bag. Armed with a cash infusion from a tax return, she took her Bank of America debit card and headed to the Madison Ave. flagship store on Feb. 28. Phillips made the purchase without incident but says she was surrounded by cops just three blocks away, at the Lexington Ave. and 59th St. subway station.
“There were three men and a woman,” she recalled. “Two of them attacked me and pushed me against a wall, and the other two appeared in front of me, blocking the turnstile.” Phillips' story is similar to Trayon Christian, the teen who was stopped by police after making purchase a $349 Ferragamo belt.
Despite NYPD fishing for some type of fraud, both Phillips and Christian's purchases were made legitimately with their own money.
” Phillips' new Celine bag cost her $2500 and questioning from officers demanding to know what the Queens native was doing in Manhattan. She is preparing a Civil Rights lawsuit against the NYPD and Barneys.
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