Residence Depot says Tyrese Gibson is mendacity about racism in his $1 million lawsuit in opposition to them … and so they say there’s video proof backing them up.
Residence Depot simply responded to Tyrese’s lawsuit … pushing again in opposition to his claims of racial discrimination on the a part of their cashiers.
In accordance with new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, Residence Depot claims Tyrese got here into their retailer and introduced a bunch of things to the money register, the place the cashier scanned every thing. HD says Tyrese then went again for extra procuring, leaving the register for 25 minutes and forcing the cashier to filter his transaction.
It is a completely different story from Tyrese’s unique criticism, the place he claims a pc glitch induced the delay. He additionally mentioned that due to the alleged delay, individuals began recognizing him and, feeling uncomfortable, he went to the car parking zone as a substitute of staying round to supervise the transaction
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Tyrese claimed he advised the cashier his two helpers would end the acquisition along with his bank card and mentioned she understood his directions earlier than he left the shop … and mentioned he was advised he may go wait outdoors and she or he would end the transaction.
Residence Depot claims their surveillance exhibits Tyrese did NOT communicate face-to-face with any of their cashiers.
Keep in mind … Tyrese additionally claimed he obtained on FaceTime with a cashier from outdoors the shop and licensed her to finish the transaction his companions have been making an attempt to make, however he claimed she would not allow them to pay for the objects along with his card till he got here again into the shop to indicate his ID.
However, in response to Residence Depot, the cashier merely requested Tyrese for ID and mentioned FaceTime wasn’t ok and that he needed to bodily come again into the shop to indicate ID.
HD says surveillance footage exhibits Tyrese coming again into the shop and getting right into a heated dialogue, which ends with him exhibiting his ID and the cashier finishing his transaction.
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Tyrese advised us it was laborious to sue Residence Depot as a result of he is a longtime buyer and the store is like his Disneyland … however Residence Depot says they do not know how lengthy he is shopped there and are not positive how a lot he is spent through the years — Tyrese claims it is near $10 million over 2 a long time.
We reached out to Tyrese’s authorized crew … thus far no phrase again.