Dallas TX. March 24 2008
by: Rick McCann
Children out on a shopping trip at a local mall got more than they had planned and some North Texas parents are up in arms after their teenagers were wrongfully detained at an upscale shopping mall.
The parents say that their children were going through the mall one moment and the next they were surrounded by mall security officers who roughed them up and humiliated, handcuffed, and needlessly put on public display because of a supposed shoplifting incident that police now say never happened.
The four 17 year old friends had come to Northpark Center to help one of the teens shop for sunglasses. When they didn't get any service, they say that they left and was walking into the mall when uniformed guards appeared.
Mia Castillo, the teen who had been shopping for the glasses, said that "We had been walking all of four or five minutes when 4-5 security guards approached us , accused us of stealing and handcuffed us all and said, 'Where are the glasses? Give me the glasses.'
The four 17 year old friends had come to Northpark Center to help one of the teens shop for sunglasses. When they didn't get any service, they say that they left and was walking into the mall when uniformed guards appeared.
Mia Castillo, the teen who had been shopping for the glasses, said that "We had been walking all of four or five minutes when 4-5 security guards approached us , accused us of stealing and handcuffed us all and said, 'Where are the glasses? Give me the glasses.'
All of us were speechless."
All four said that other shoppers were passing by looking at these four teens handcuffed standing like they had just robbed someone or something and the public display that they put us through was the most embarrassing. They spent over half an hour in cuffs, to the snickers of passing shoppers. Standing out there in the busy mall.
Juan Villa, another one of the teens, said "We were embarrassed, you know, they handcuffed us for nothing we didn't do. I mean, they didn't even bother to take us into a room or anything."
Dallas Police were called to the mall and when an officer finally arrived to take charge it was quickly decided there had been no theft and ordered the guards to free the teens.
Mia and her friends say mall security told them "Sorry for the inconvenience."
But it was much more than inconvenience.
All four said that other shoppers were passing by looking at these four teens handcuffed standing like they had just robbed someone or something and the public display that they put us through was the most embarrassing. They spent over half an hour in cuffs, to the snickers of passing shoppers. Standing out there in the busy mall.
Juan Villa, another one of the teens, said "We were embarrassed, you know, they handcuffed us for nothing we didn't do. I mean, they didn't even bother to take us into a room or anything."
Dallas Police were called to the mall and when an officer finally arrived to take charge it was quickly decided there had been no theft and ordered the guards to free the teens.
Mia and her friends say mall security told them "Sorry for the inconvenience."
But it was much more than inconvenience.
It just wasn't right the teens say and they now believe that they were singled out because they are young Hispanics.
On Saturday the teens and their parents demanded a meeting with the mall security team.
The families will have another meeting with the Mall on Monday.
Mall management would not comment on the incident and the security department referred calls to the mall management office.
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