Woman gets settlement because of security
Dec 18, 2003 12:00 PM
A New York jury has ordered Lord & Taylor Inc. to pay $350,000 in damages after finding that the department store's security guards used excessive force against an African American woman when they suspected her or her sister of shoplifting.
Lord & Taylor claimed that the alleged conduct -- captured on video -- warranted its use of force against the plaintiff. Lord & Taylor's former employees also testified that the parking lot where the plaintiff was attacked was also videotaped. Lord & Taylor failed to disclose the videotapes despite being ordered to do so by two different Supreme Court justices. At trial, Lord & Taylor claimed that the videotapes had been lost.
The jury was directed that it could assume that the videotapes would have shown what the plaintiff stated: She did not shoplift anything and she was needlessly and viciously beaten.
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