Walmart ordered to pay $4.4 million in ‘shopping while Black’ discrimination lawsuit

The verdict is the largest monetary award by a jury in a racial discrimination case in Oregon history.

Walmart has been ordered to pay an Oregon man $4.4 million in punitive damages after a former theft-prevention employee racially profiled him as he was “shopping while Black.”

Michael Mangum, 61, is also set to receive $400,000 in non-economic damages, making the verdict the largest monetary award by a jury in a racial discrimination case in Oregon history, today!

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