Retired Rensselaer sheriff’s employee flashes badge, tells group of Black shoppers not to steal

BRUNSWICK — Jadah Robinson, a 21-year-old junior Olympic champion boxer, went to a Dollar General in Brunswick to do some after-church shopping on Sunday with her brother, godbrother, nephew and a family friend.

Robinson’s nephew approached a manager to ask where he could find the toothpaste. While he was led to it, the rest of the group looked at candy near the front of the store. Soon after he rejoined the group, Robinson said, an older man who didn’t work there approached them, flashed what appeared to be a police badge and told them not to steal anything.

Robinson’s mother, Pastor Sheba Brown of the Triumphant Fellowship Ministry in Troy, accused the man of targeting the group because they are Black in multiple videos she posted on Facebook…

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