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"I felt I was racially profiled"

A Calgary woman says she felt racially profiled after being accused of shoplifting while shopping at a southeast optometry store on Mother's Day.

Much of the incident was caught on video by the woman's teenage daughter. The video shows the sales associate at Southcentre's Pearle Vision store suggesting Linda Nothing, who is Indigenous, stole two pairs of glasses.

In the video, security is called to the store and, at the request of the sales associate, Nothing is asked to empty her bags and remove a shawl.

"I said you were looking at them and I wondered if you knew where they were," the sales associate says in the video.

"I told you I didn't know and you chose not to believe me," Nothing replies while repacking her purse and putting her shawl back on.

"You called security and implied that she stole," says Nothing's daughter.

"I know what I filled up. I don't know if she's hiding it somewhere," responds the associate.