Students accuse Apple of racial profiling after being told to leave

November 12, 2015 14:31

Six black students have accused tech giant Apple of racial profiling after being told they could not come into a store because staff thought they might steal something.

On Tuesday afternoon, the year 10 students from Maribyrnong College in Melbourne's west visited an Apple store at the nearby Highpoint Shopping Centre in their uniforms.

"We were going to Highpoint Apple store [to] check out the new iPhone 6," one of the students, Mohamed Semar, told Hack.

"We walk in, no problem, just got to the nearest table we see and everyone is using the iPhones.

"Then we see two security guards, one standing right next to us and the other circling our table."

Mohamed said he and his friends then left the store, but later returned.

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