Walmart Beats Suit by Worker Fired After Alleged Race Profiling

A White former asset protection employee at an Ohio Walmart lacks a race discrimination lawsuit over his firing three days after a Black customer accused him of racial profiling for wrongly suspecting her of theft, a federal judge ruled.

Gary Waldron failed to allege that Walmart Inc. is the rare employer that discriminates against White employees, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said. That additional showing is needed to establish a “reverse race discrimination” claim under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act or Ohio anti-bias law, the court said.

The July 2, 2020, incident ...