'They Would Not Let Me Leave': Black Woman Left An 'Emotional Wreck' After Dillard's Employee Falsely Accuses Her of Stealing, Things Take a Turn When the Manager Arrives

'They Would Not Let Me Leave': Black Woman Left An 'Emotional Wreck' After Dillard's Employee Falsely Accuses Her of Stealing, Things Take a Turn When the Manager Arrives

As she does on or near May 5 every year, Dr. Cheryl Jackson, the founder of Minnie’s Food Pantry, which serves healthy meals to the homeless, took the day off for a shopping trip to Dillard’s department store in Fairview, Texas. It’s an annual tradition marking the anniversary of her mother’s death by purchasing some butterfly earrings. “Because when she passed, butterflies circled me,” Jackson said of her mother, the namesake of the food pantry…