Breaking News… Law suits are finally underway in the cases of 21 year-old Kayla Phillips and 19 year-old Trayon Christian. If you haven’t heard these two young adults were racially profiled by Barney’s New York and the NYPD earlier in the year. They were both targeted in the same hateful and quite racist manner of being stopped several hundred feet away from the store by multiple officers, and taken into custody for basically shopping at Barney’s; paying with their own debit cards for the items which were a Salvatore Ferragamo belt and a Céline hand bag. The New York Daily news has more pn this story of open and in your face racism.

“Kayla Phillips, 21, says she was swarmed by four plainclothes cops after using her debit card to buy a $2,500 orange suede Céline bag. Her experience is eerily similar to that of Trayon Christian, 19, who filed a discrimination suit this week accusing Barneys and the NYPD of racial profiling.

Kayla Phillips, 21, was stopped by police in February at the 59th St. and Lexington Ave. subway station after purchasing a Céline handbag from Barneys at 61st St. and Madison Ave.

Four plainclothes cops accused a black woman of credit card fraud after the Brooklyn mom bought a $2,500 designer bag from Barneys — stoking a fresh round of outrage against the high-end store.

Kayla Phillips, 21, a nursing student from Canarsie, told the Daily News she had long coveted the orange suede Céline bag. Armed with a cash infusion from a tax return, she took her Bank of America debit card and headed to the Madison Ave. flagship store on Feb. 28.

Phillips made the purchase without incident but says she was surrounded by cops just three blocks away, at the Lexington Ave. and 59th St. subway station.

“There were three men and a woman,” she recalled. “Two of them attacked me and pushed me against a wall, and the other two appeared in front of me, blocking the turnstile.”

The cops started peppering her with questions and demanding to see her ID.

Phillips says the four cops blocked the turnstile and began to pepper her with questions about what she was doing in Manhattan and how she could afford the bag.

“They were very rough,” said Phillips, who has filed a $5 million notice of claim with the city of her intention to sue the NYPD. “They kept asking me what I bought and saying, ‘Show us your card.’ I didn’t know what was happening.”

We here t UI wonder when will it all end? Even on of the richest women in the world (Oprah) was given similar treatment when shopping at Hermes in Zurich Switzerland. We will keep following the development of the court litigation for both Trayon and Kayla, keeping you posted the whole way through. I am Leon Collins reporting for the UI news team. Thank you… And stay aware.