Louis Gray says he was racially profiled after trying to buy spray paint to make over his son’s bicycle helmet
What’s the point in burying the fact that he didn’t have ID. You could argue they carded you because you were black but not refused service.
You need Id to buy spray? What kind of stupid shit is that? How would they know it was you even if they have your id? It seems like they’d just go after all the black people who bought spray when something gets vandalized.
What a stupid country you live in, I can’t imagine getting carded for buying art supplies. If you’re worried it’s gonna be used for crime, don’t sell it.
Its been like that for a while. Anything that you can huff basically.
I’ve bought plenty of these type of products (paints, glues, varnishes) and I don’t recall ever being carded. Maybe once for spray paint?
The only time I can actually think of being carded (outside of alcohol) was for real pseudoephedrine.
Spray-paint tends to be solvent-based, and spraying it onto a helmet can fundamentally compromise its structure/strength.
Please don’t ever use solvent-based stuff on multi-layer plastic helmets, for sake of your brain, who needs that helmet to work properly, when one gets slammed into the asphalt/concrete.
Please.
This is the UK if yall were wondering. Still super strange, youd think theyd have had a black customer before.
