Tyrese has filed a $1 million lawsuit against Home Depot after he says he was racially profiled during a visit to one of their stores.
Tyrese says he and two other men who “regularly provide construction services to him “experienced outrageous discriminatory mistreatment and consumer racial profiling” during a visit to the company’s West Hills, Calif. store back in February.
“The cashier gave no reasonable explanation other than repeating ‘store policy’ and demanded to see a form of identification,” the lawsuit reads. “The manager refused to speak with Gibson in person. It was only after significant heated discussion with the cashier that Gibson was finally able to complete the transaction.”
He added that workers in the store “purposely interfered with and refused to process the transaction based on their groundless suspicion of Gibson, Mora and Hernandez arising from their skin color, and in the case of Mora and Hernandez, their national origin.”
The actor and the other two plaintiffs, Eric Mora and Manuel Hernandez, are seeking over $1 million in damages. He says the amount not only affects the amount he claims he’s spent in the store over the years, but also for punitive damages and “a declaratory judgment declaring that” Home Depot’s actions violated California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.
