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Kirk Acevedo, an American actor who stars in the B.C.-filmed TV show Arrow, says he was discriminated against at the Coach store in downtown Vancouver.

Acevedo, who is of Puerto Rican descent, wrote Tuesday in a Twitter post that he was outside the luxury-fashion outlet waiting for it to open when a salesperson refused to let him in.

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“The salesperson looked me up and down and asked me if I was going to buy anything, and when I said, ‘Did you really just ask me that?,’ she proceeded to lock the door on me,” Acevedo wrote.

Acevedo says the store remained locked until a white customer showed up.

“One minute later, a Caucasian woman … knocks on the door to see if they’re open and (the salesperson) opens the doors for her,” he said.

Acevedo told Postmedia he wasn’t sure what problem the saleswoman had with him.

“You’d have to ask her that. I think she judged me for what I was wearing, thinking I couldn’t afford to buy anything in the store. Either way, it’s horrendous and shallow,” he said.