A Massachusetts farm apologized after falsely accusing a Black couple of stealing 6 apples [View all]

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A Massachusetts farm apologized after falsely accusing a Black couple of stealing 6 apples and calling the police on them

Connors Farm employees accused Manikka Bowman and Jeff Myers, a Black couple, of stealing apples.
They called the police over the incident, and an officer said they were "playing the race card."
Connors Farm reportedly apologized to the couple after they made a blog post about the incident.

A Massachusetts farm reportedly apologized to a couple that said it racially profiled them over Labor Day weekend.

Manikka Bowman and Jeff Myers went to Connors Farm in Danvers, Massachusetts, with their two children, aged 18 months and 7-years-old, on Monday, as they shared in a blog post. The farm features fall-themed activities, like corn mazes and apple picking.

In the blog post, Bowman and Myers, who are both Black, wrote that they paid "more than $100 on all-day admission," bought food and beverages, and donated to a scholarship fund the farm advertised throughout the day.

But as they were heading to the farm store, the family was stopped by a security guard, they wrote in the post. He and another security guard took the family to the farm store, where a third employee joined them, and reportedly searched Bowman's bag for "concealed" fruit.

Bowman and Myers asked to speak to a manager, who the third employee identified himself as. They then asked the manager for the owner's contact information, according to their blog post. The self-identified manager called the police after they pushed for the information.

The couple said the police officer who arrived did not listen to them, instead taking the manager's word. He eventually accused Bowman and Myers of "playing the race card," as they wrote in the blog post.

https://www.insider.com/farm-apologized-after-falsely-accusing-black-couple-stealing-6-apples-2021-9