Indigenous man a longtime Giant Tiger customer — until he says he was falsely accused of stealing

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When Hector King Jr. stopped by a Giant Tiger store in east Toronto to pick up bananas one afternoon in December, he says he felt as though he was being watched.

The 62-year-old Anishinaabe man from Gull Bay First Nation, near Thunder Bay, Ont., said he noticed a security guard and staff hovering nearby.

But it wasn’t until after King made the $1.68 purchase that he said he was stopped by an employee.

He said he was told never to return or he’d be charged with trespassing.

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King was confused. He’d been riding his electric scooter from his Scarborough home to the store for years, spending

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