Shopkeeper Arrested After Forcibly Imprisoning Black Boy, Holding Gun To His Face

Story out of Atlanta, Georgia:

An Atlanta grocery clerk was arrested after he locked an 11-year-old black boy he suspected of being a shoplifter inside the store and held him at gunpoint, police said.

Family of the boy, Dylan Curate, called the incident a frightening case of racial profiling.

"Would my son be the next black boy killed because of racial profiling?" Dylan's mother, DeAngela Terriquez, wondered in a Facebook post describing the incident.

Dylan went with his siblings to the southwest Atlanta convenience store around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday when 27-year-old store clerk Abhishek Dubey singled the boy out as a suspected shoplifter, pulled him inside the store and kept him from leaving, police and family say.

Dubey allegedly used a remote lock to keep Dylan inside the store and held a .22 caliber revolver in his face, according to a police report cited by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

The boy went home after the incident and described the scary encounter to his mother, who reported it to police.

Surveillance footage revealed that Dylan didn’t take anything and wasn’t armed, police said in the report.

Dubey was arrested and charged with aggravated assault for threatening the boy with a gun, which he told police was broken and unloaded. Cont. (Video)

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