Giant Tiger Incident

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The newspaper article I chose is “Look for ‘tells’ not skin color, former loss prevention employee advises after Giant Tiger incident.” This is an article based on the incident that occured in Regina late November at the Giant Tiger. A young indigenous man was followed by an employee of Giant Tiger, assuming the young man was going to steal something. Ezekial Bigknife posted a video to Facebook of the employee following him around the store. This is an example of racial profiling in retail stores.

I will first explore this issue and how common racial profiling is in Saskatchewan. I will then discuss the conflict of values and how it relates to social work. I will finish off by relating it to professional ethics and values and how it affects …show more content…
I have personally seen racial profiling in the exact same sense the video of Bigknife showed. Being in Cornwall with aboriginal friends; we were always followed in stores. I’ve even seen workers contact other workers when a group of aboriginal people come into the store, why would they need to tell others a group of people are arriving unless it’s to make sure they aren’t stealing. I read the CBC article but I also watched the video on Facebook and it’s pretty obvious Bigknife is being followed for dishonorable reasons. Even a formless loss prevention employee said that racial profiling is alive and well in the industry in Saskatchewan.

Even Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Chief Bobby Cameron has experienced racial profiling in Saskatchewan; being asked if he was drinking when he hasn’t drank in seven years. Cameron was also given a ticket for not driving with due care, even though Cameron stated he did nothing wrong. This is another perfect example of racial profiling. The most common stereotype for aboriginal people is a lazy drunk, both things Cameron was accused …show more content…
I think the 1.2.3 is most applicable to social work as we as social workers need to acknowledge our own personal experiences and biases and work to overcome them. For example: if you were a social worker who has been assaulted by aboriginal men in the past, and your new client is an aboriginal man; you will need to put aside your personal experiences with aboriginal men and start with a clean state as you have no idea of this man’s life and every single person’s story is unique to them and when you do social work with prejudice, you can miss out on knowing that person’s real story

This is a conflict of values, because the value is do not discriminate against any person on the basis of their ethnic background while the employee at Giant Tiger (and potentially Giant Tiger itself depending on their loss prevention procedures) discriminated against someone based solely on the basis that they are aboriginal. Even the former loss prevention employee stated the “tells” of people stealing were those dressed in sunglasses or those hovering in certain departments. I can tell from the Facebook video, Bigknife was doing neither of
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