Louis Gray says he was racially profiled after trying to buy spray paint to make over his son’s bicycle helmet

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      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.

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        8 months ago

        Its different in different states in terms of how much accountability the clerk has. In most places they can say the customer appears to be over 21, sometimes they have to say over 40.

        In ohio, minimum wage clerks can and do get prosecuted when they accidentally sell alcohol (and I assume spray paint) to a minor.