By Laura Waxmann

An encounter on Mother’s Day between a shopper at the recently opened Grocery Outlet at 1245 South Van Ness Ave. and a security guard employed to safeguard its premises ended with the latter being fired.

The shopper, Mission resident and local artist and activist Amos Gregory, alleges that he was racially profiled and threatened by a security guard employed by the store while standing in the discount grocer’s parking lot on Sunday afternoon. Gregory, who is black, said that he was approached by the guard and accused of “loitering” moments after he had completed a grocery run.

A video recording taken by Gregory captured the interaction between him and the guard, whom Gregory identified as Dylan. The guard was armed with a baton and possibly a Taser. Gregory alleges that the guard threatened to taser him, although that threat was not captured in the video…READ MORE