lifestyle SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2013 Black actor: NYC Macy’s stopped me because of race black actor on the HBO drama series “Treme” said The New York Police Department is accused in the fication to prove his American Express card wasn’t a Friday he was stopped by police because of his lawsuit of violating Brown’s constitutional rights. The fake but was told it was phony. He said he had recently Arace while shopping at Macy’s - the third dis- city’s Law Department said it would review the claims obtained a new Social Security Card and had a birth cer- crimination allegation made this week by a black shop- once it received a copy of the lawsuit. Earlier this week, tificate, passport and license on him at the time. per against a department store. Robert Brown, who two Barneys New York customers, Trayon Christian and Brown said the officers eventually cleared him and sued Macy’s in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, said Kayla Phillips, who are black, said they were detained by then one drove him to his mother’s graduation. He said in his lawsuit he was detained by police at the flagship police after making expensive purchases. he was coming forward because he didn’t want others Herald Square store on June 8 after employees contact- Police said they were already in the store when to experience the same treatment. Earlier this week, Stuntman and ‘Smokey’ ed authorities about possible credit card fraud. He said Christian was taken into custody and they were contact- Christian sued Barneys, saying he was accused of fraud he was “paraded while handcuffed” through the store to ed by the store after Phillips used a temporary debit after using his debit card to buy a $349 Ferragamo belt director dies a holding cell, where he was kept for nearly an hour card. The profiling accusations prompted an outcry in April. Phillips said in a notice of claim filed with the al Needham, a top Hollywood stuntman who turned to while officers grilled him and searched his bag. He from civil rights groups, with the Rev. Al Sharpton’s city that undercover officers detained her after she directing rousing action films including “Smokey and eventually was released without charges. National Action Network threatening to picket the bought a $2,500 designer bag at Barneys in February. Hthe ” and “The Cannonball Run,” has died. He was The lawsuit, filed Thursday, said it was over sunglass- store. Sharpton said he planned to hold a Saturday Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said it’s standard 82. His business managers tell the Los Angeles Times that es, but Brown said at a news conference Friday it was news conference at which other shoppers who felt pro- practice for retailers to call police if they believe crimes Needham died Friday in Los Angeles. A former paratrooper, over a $1,300 Movado watch he had bought for his filed would come forward. have been committed. — AP Needham appeared in thousands of TV episodes and hun- dreds of movies, performing and designing stunts and new mother for her college graduation. “I believe that I was Barneys said on Thursday it had retained a civil rights equipment to execute them. Needham jumped from planes, profiled,” said Brown, 29, who appears in the movie expert to lead a review of its policies and procedures was dragged by horses and wrecked cars - breaking 56 bones “Don Jon.” Brown’s lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary and had reached out to community leaders to start a in the process. His best-known directing efforts involved damages, but his lawyer John Elefterakis said, “This is dialogue. The CEO of Barneys, Mark Lee, offered his “sin- 1970s action comedies, including “Smokey,” about justice, not money.” Macy’s didn’t comment on cere regret and deepest apologies.” In the lawsuit “Cannonball Run” and “.” He also directed Arnold the litigation but said in a statement it was investigat- against Macy’s, Brown, who also acted in “Finding Schwarzenegger in “The Villain.” In a Twitter posting, ing. Forrester,” said he tried to show police officers his identi- Schwarzenegger calls Needham an icon. Needham received an honorary Oscar last year. — AP Russian Fashion Week

Models display cre- ations by Russian designer Slava Zaitsev during the Russian Fashion Week in Moscow yesterday. — AFP photos