Kirk Acevedo, an American actor who stars in the B.C.-filmed TV show Arrow, claims he was discriminated against at the Coach store in downtown Vancouver.
Acevedo, who is of Puerto Rican descent, wrote in a Tuesday Twitter post that he was outside the luxury fashion outlet waiting for it to open when a salesperson refused to let him in.
"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.
Coach has not publicly responded to Acevedo's claims.
When reached by phone Thursday, an employee at the Vancouver Coach store, who did not reveal her name, told Postmedia she was unaware of the incident.
"We have no idea what you are talking about … and there is absolutely no one here that wants to comment on that," the employee said before hanging up the phone.
Acevedo, whose long list of acting credits also includes a three-year stint on the Vancouver-filmed science-fiction series Fringe, said the ironic part of the situation was that he was wearing a T-shirt featuring a picture of baseball great Jackie Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball's colour barrier in 1947.
It's not the first time a Vancouver high-end retailer has been accused of discrimination. Last year, hip-hop artist Tory Lanez said he was mistreated by a white employee at Holt Renfrew before dropping $35,000 in the store.
The Georgia Straight reported Lanez claimed in a now-deleted tweet that a Holt Renfrew salesperson "tried play me like I was broke."
Lanez said the salesperson who eventually got the commission on his sale was black.
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