Another black Barneys shopper accused of credit card fraud after buying $2,500 purse: claim

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Source: New York Daily News

Another black Barneys shopper accused of credit card fraud after buying $2,500 purse: claim

BY TINA MOORE AND GINGER ADAMS OTIS / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013, 10:47 PM
UPDATED: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013, 6:02 AM

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.”

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[libdem4life]

1. I can't see where that purse is worth anywhere near $2,500, but this Barney's racist crap, wonder

how many times this has happened before. SWBW$ ... Shopping While Black With Money (and credit cards).

I hope they take them to the cleaners. Don't most stores have tags attached to things costing a lot of money? All department stores I've been in do, but we're talking Penneys and Sears in my case.

[KurtNYC]

4. the card must have cleared at the cash register and that should have been the end of it.

Btw, The purse can be had for $271

http://www.wikipurse.net/Celine-c1004.html

[PasadenaTrudy]

6. Those are replicas...n/t

[KurtNYC]

12. Besides $2,229, what is the difference?

The label. The branding and the margin.

This person bought a purse worth $271 for $2500 then got chased, detained and harassed for doing so.

[pnwmom]

16. No, it's worth ten times more because

it's hand sewn.

[KurtNYC]

20. It comes with an ego trip, unless you are black

The whole story gives a different meaning to "fashion police."

[libdem4life]

8. Well, looks like there's all kind of robbery going on here. And yes to the card. Shameful.

With those kind of profits, Barney's can surely afford to defend themselves and help make these two kids rich. Works for me.

[lunasun]

7. not Barney's pe se but alot even at not so snappy as that

[lunasun]

2. High ends used to let U know in subtle way you are being watched > Now you are being followed on the

street three blocks away for thinking you can( and did) buy that??
What did the shop clerk call into the cops I wonder???

[Blue_Tires]

3. Black folks just need to stop spending there altogether....

[libdem4life]

9. How about just folks stop shopping there..period. Who needs consumer crap that's overpriced

into the 4-digit range? ... or are fakes. Wonder if they pay health care, or just hire part-time? I'd be afraid to carry that bag in public anyway...bright orange?

[Blue_Tires]

10. I agree, but people are free to spend their $$$$ however they like

'Merica and all that....Everybody has something (shoes, wines, cars, furniture, electronics) where only the absolute BEST will do, no matter how much it costs...

I've never fully understood uber-expensive clothes (although in high school I did have some basketball shoes costing a king's ransom during the height of the craze)...

[libdem4life]

11. True. Having been more or less a Flower Child I kind of bypassed that...old VW Bug and all...but,

my son...he made up for it many times over. LOL.

[PasadenaTrudy]

18. I had a '66

Blue Bug...great car!

[libdem4life]

21. Mine was faded blue with white interior '61 and...get ready..had the hand lever for 1/4 gallon tank

of gas, if you were dumb enough to run out. And, if memory serves, gassed up for about $2 and it ran for freaking ever. Got it back in 65 so I didn't need a ride to school.

Ah, memories.

[Shampoobra]

15. White folks, too

To quote Jerry Seinfeld: "We're trying to have a civilization here!"

[kestrel91316]

5. While I happen to think that is's foolish for a student to spend that much money on

a stupid purse, regardless of its quality, it's HER money.

I'm never spending a dime at Barneys if I ever win the lottery, lol. Fuckers.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. It's getting ugly.

[noiretextatique]

14. wtf

she paid for the item, they checked her ID, and her card was charged fuck barney's...they are going to lose some money over this racist policy.

[cali]

17. Jaysus. Barney's sucks. this is racism. now about $2,500 for a purse

people in this society have been brainwashed- particularly young people. It is absolutely insane to spend that amount of money on a handbag. And it's particularly insane for a young person of any color and any income to spend that amount of money on a handbag.

[RebelOne]

19. I hope these two people that were falsely accused

have hired good lawyers. If that happened to me, I know I would have contacted one the minute I was released from custody.

[malaise]

22. Living while black is becoming waya too dangerous

I'm sick of this shit

[petronius]

23. Barneys' behavior is reprehensible, but IMO the police action requires a serious

criminal and/or civil rights probe. No one should be restrained, detained, or investigated based solely on 'race + expensive purchase'...

[Rex]

24. Sue the cops, sue Barneys...make them unemployed and unemployable.

Racism is alive and on the rise! How fucking sad.