NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — An engineering student has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD and Barneys New York after he claims he was racially profiled while shopping at the Madison Avenue store.

City College of Technology student Trayon Christian, 19, said the store and police targeted him because they didn’t think he could afford a $300 Ferragamo belt.

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Christian said he had just been paid from his work-study job when he went to Barneys to purchase the belt back in April.

After buying the belt using his Chase debit card, Christian’s attorney Michael Palillo said he was stopped less than a block from the store by undercover NYPD detectives.

Palillo said the officers told Christian they had received a call from Barneys telling them that the debit card he used to buy the belt was fraudulent.