Video: White Employee 'Racially Profiling,' Follows Indigenous Giant Tiger Customer

A Giant Tiger employee has been suspended after a video surfaced online of a man being followed around a store in Regina, Saskatchewan. The viral footage has amassed over 474,000 views as of Monday.

Zeke Bigknife recorded video of himself being watched by a Giant Tiger store employee while he shopped for groceries. He showed the video to his mother, Maxine Stephanie Goforth, who uploaded it to her Facebook page. She said it proved that her son was the subject of "racial profiling and harassment."

"My youngest son went to get some things for his little family, and this is what occurred!," Goforth captioned the video. "Racial Profiling and harassment!! And same thing today!! This angers me because why do these dumb floor walkers assume that we all shoplift?? This is at Giant Tiger in Regina, Saskatchewan, Avonhurst, location."

Bigknife claimed that the employee had followed him around the store previously. He said he approached the employee and store management before he talked to local media.

I feel harassed. I don’t see why he has to single out me every time I go there," he told Saskatchewan’s CTV News Sunday.

"This guy’s just following me around G.T. every time I come here," Bigknife can be heard saying in the video. "Every time I come here. There’s more brown people in your store," he said, apparently talking to the employee. "You should start following them around too."

The video garnered the attention of Facebook users who claimed that the employee’s behavior was discriminatory. Giant Tiger later issued a statement regarding the matter. The store said it takes "matters of this nature seriously."

"What occurred in the video in question is a direct contradiction of our brand values as well as our policies and should never have occurred," the statement read. "The employee in question has been suspended while we undergo an investigation. We have reached out to the gentleman in the video directly to apologize."