A restaurant in Canada had to pay up for racial profiling.
R acial profiling doesn’t pay in Toronto, Canada and Hong Shing Chinese Restaurant learned the hard way.
On May 3,2014, Emile Wickham and three of his friends ate at the restaurant for his birthday. Reportedly, they were told to prepay their food because it was the restaurant’s “policy.” Wickham were the only Black customers at the restaurant and according to The Washington Post, “Wickham began going around to other tables in the restaurant and asking whether they, too, had been asked to pay for their meals ahead of time. No one else had had the same experience.”
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According to court documents, the waiter admitted they were the only ones asked to prepay, “Rather than offer any explanation for the prepayment he simply asked them whether they wanted their money back.
