Indigenous man a longtime Giant Tiger customer — until he says he was falsely accused of stealing

When Hector King Jr. stopped by a Giant Tiger store in east Toronto to pick up bananas one afternoon in December, he says he felt as though he was being watched.

The 62-year-old Anishinaabe man from Gull Bay First Nation, near Thunder Bay, Ont., said he noticed a security guard and staff hovering nearby.

But it wasn’t until after King made the $1.68 purchase that he said he was stopped by an employee.

He said he was told never to return or he’d be charged with trespassing.

King was confused. He’d been riding his electric scooter from his Scarborough home to the store for years, spending