Apple apologises after African students ejected from Australian store


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 12 Nov 2015

Blatant racism: Employees of an Apple Store in Sydney made headlines after evicting six teenagers of African descent from the store for no other reason than that they might steal something.

SYDNEY, Australia: An Apple manager has apologised to six teenagers of African descent after staff kicked them out of an Australian store citing concerns they “might steal something”, with a video of the incident going viral on Facebook. 

The video, recorded by one of the students from Maribyrnong College in the southern city of Melbourne, has been viewed almost 60,000 times after it was posted on Facebook on Nov 10 with the caption “simply racism”. 

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