Madina Halal Meat Market

I will never patronize this business in the future. I will preface this story with I am a young black male working at University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral researcher. I was looking for goat meat for a party, so I used to Unilocal!to find a nearby halal butcher. Upon entering the store, I saw three aisles of goods. I wasn’t sure if there was any packaged meat, so I walked down all three aisles. They only had fish in their freezer, so I approached the butcher in the back.
I asked the butcher if they sold goat meat and then he started asking me questions about my hand and my pocket. I did not quite understand what he was asking, but he then asked about what I had in my breast pocket, to which I said, «My wallet and keys,» he asked to see it, but I refused. I was not sure if he thought I had a weapon or something else, but eventually I got the idea of what he was asking when he went to one of the shelves and accused me of taking something from the shelf and sticking it in my jacket. At that point I said, «I understand, you are accusing me of shoplifting, I will not be buying anything from this store.» And to clarify, I never made any motion to anything on the shelves in the establishment, so it was not a misinterpretation of my actions.
I went directly to the manager and explained what happened and she did not seem to care. I will not ever patronize this market. I would suggest traveling down the block to Makkah Market, they have more variety and they’re open 24 hours. Never again, racism is unacceptable.