Don Lemon was racially profiled at Tower Records here, said lawsuit.
Don Lemon is now the popular CNN news program host. In 2001, he was with WCAU in Philadelphia. He filed a lawsuit against Tower Records Video Books over an alleged case of racial profiling on 2/3/01. See https://www.newspapers.com/image/212925056/?terms=%22don+lemon%22+wcau+arrest+philadelphia. The article says that he bought a CD player and was later accused of stealing it, and the employee of Tower involved apologized for the incident. Tower was replaced by f.y.e., which closed last year, http://www.phillyvoice.com/fye-broad-street-close/.
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