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Black Women Wrongfully Accused Of Shoplifting In Hershey Were Detained For Hours: Report Black Women Wrongfully Accused Of Shoplifting In Hershey Were Detained For Hours: Report
Black Women Wrongfully Accused Of Shoplifting In Hershey Were Detained For Hours: Report A pair of sisters and their cousin have filed a civil suit saying they were racially profiled and wrongly accused of stealing while shopping at an outlet mall in Hershey, then held for hours by police, PennLive reports. Sisters Quashae and Quanae Brown, and their cousin Trinity Reid, had just left The Gap and Old Navy at the mall in when a pair of Derry Township officers stopped them and accused them of stealing a $6 onesie on Dec. 22, 2020, the outlet says.  Police found no stolen items but held the women — who were never charged — for hours, according to PennLive. The sisters f…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Lehigh Valley Goodwill Stores Temporarily Halt Donations Citing ‘Overwhelming Support’ Lehigh Valley Goodwill Stores Temporarily Halt Donations Citing ‘Overwhelming Support’
Lehigh Valley Goodwill Stores Temporarily Halt Donations Citing ‘Overwhelming Support’ Goodwill stores in the Lehigh Valley region will temporarily stop accepting donated items starting Wednesday. While customers can still shop at its retail centers, the Goodwill Keystone Area covering 22 PA counties is ceasing donations through the end of February due to “overwhelming support.” “We need to temporarily stop collecting donations until the end of February in order to get your items sorted and out to our stores,” reads a Monday post on the nonprofit’s Facebook page. “You have been so generous! In the past few months, the community has gone above and beyond in bringing us donati…

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by Valerie Musson