A woman is threatening legal action against Target after a Pennsylvania store wrongfully accused her of shoplifting. The video, originally posted by @maci_mulatto on Instagram on Wednesday, showed the woman getting stopped by a police officer. The woman, who asked not to be identified, spoke w ith Atlanta Black Star about what happened. A woman was wrongfully accused of stealing from a Pennsylvania Target. (Photo Credit: @maci_mulatto) The incident happened at a Target in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania. The woman said she and her cousin were both shopping. ‘Poor Little Baby’: Black Parents Say White Therapist Violently Shoved Their Autistic Son into a Shelf, Then the Center Allegedly Tried to Hide It According to the woman, she checked out first, while her cousin was still looking around the store. “I asked the cashier, you know, is it cool? Because at this point, I’m already paid,” she said. After finding her cousin at the self-checkout, an employee brought them another cart to help carry their items out. “She had stuff spilling over the small side of self-checkout,” the woman explained. The woman’s cousin paid, and then they headed over to Starbucks. But when they got there, they noticed someone was watching them. “I saw [the loss prevention officer] stare, kind of looking jittery; I’m not going to lie. I thought he was going to try to steal our purses,” she said. The woman identified the employee who first pointed them out to authorities as the man with dreads, who, in the video, seemed to be trying to block the women from leaving the store. “[My cousin] said when she saw him in the window, he was mouthing to the people in Starbucks that we were stealing, which made me even more mad,” she said. As she and her cousin tried to leave, they began recording the ordeal. In the video, an officer, followed by an employee, approaches the woman as she exits the store, pushing her cart full of items and carrying her receipt. “I did not take nothing from y’all’s store,” she said. “I have my receipt, my purse is here, I let y’all go through my purse, all my items are right here.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bre Dollaaz (@maci_mulatto) It appears the employee first accused the store before the video started recording. The officer told the woman she needed to go to the office inside the store because she was under investigation. “I did not steal something out of y’all’s store, so now I’m feeling some type of way,” the woman told the officer. After he told her she was detained, the woman told the officer to look at her cart. She remained calm and pointed out that she was complying with the officer’s commands. The employee loomed behind the officer during the exchange. “We can go back to the office now, or we could go back in handcuffs; either way, we have to go back to the office,” the officer said. The officer and employee then escorted the woman back into the store with all of her items. She made sure to walk over to the employee who rang her up to confirm that she had, in fact, paid for all of her items. “Excuse me, ma’am, didn’t you just ring up my cart?” she asked the employee. “They’re saying I stole this whole cart of stuff.” The employee could not be seen nodding on camera, but she did not deny ringing the woman up. Atlanta Black Star asked the woman if the officer or employee ever looked in her car before her cousin started recording. “No, they never checked my stuff is what I’m telling you,” she said. “That’s why I felt so powerless and unheard. Once the guy said I took everything in my cart, the officer immediately put his hands on the cart.” Atlanta Black Star also asked whether the woman knew whether the store had called the police on her or if the officer was already there. She said she did not know. She identified the officer as “Officer Tice.” Atlanta Black Star reached out to the police department to learn more but has not heard back. In another video posted by @maci_mulatto, the camera is on the employee who was following the officer in the first video. He is sitting in the back office in front of several computer monitors. You could also see the woman’s Target cart in the shot, with her purse. The employee stared at the computer for a long time before telling the woman what he had learned. “Alright, I checked it. You wasn’t lying. So that’s my apology. Um, here ya go your receipt,” the employee said before the video cut out. Now, the woman is preparing to take legal action. “[The officer] just went from standing there curious about the situation, not really saying much up until the loss prevention officer escalated it. The police officer didn’t investigate,” she said. The woman may have a legal case for claims like false imprisonment, false arrest, or defamation. Winning would depend heavily on specific details, such as whether she was physically detained, how long she was held, and if the store acted without reasonable suspicion. Atlanta Black Star reached out to Target and police for more information about what happened but hasn’t heard back. ‘Didn’t Investigate’: Black Woman to Sue Target After She’s Detained By Cop Over ‘Stolen’ Goods, and Has to Go Out of Her Way to Prove Her Innocence  ...read more read less