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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helen Pidd

Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’

Louis Gray and his son Parker, 4.
Louis Gray and his son Parker. Hobbycraft said he was asked for ID for buying an age-restricted product. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/The Guardian

A black man shopping for paint with his four-year-old son says he was racially profiled and refused service at Hobbycraft after staff said he may use the paint for “doing graffiti”.

Louis Gray, who works for Sport Wales as equality, diversity and inclusion manager, said he wanted to buy spray paint in order to make over his son’s bicycle helmet in the colours of his favourite mountain bike rider.

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