<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"&lt;img alt=\"0218_forrest_milano_01\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/02/18/0218-forrest-milano-2.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NYC deli that accused &lt;strong&gt;Forest Whitaker&lt;/strong&gt; of shoplifting last week is blaming the incident on a \"misguided\" employee ... and insists race was absolutely NOT a factor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TMZ spoke with a rep for the Milano Market ... where the Academy Award winner was publicly FRISKED after he was wrongly suspected of stealing an item. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rep tells us, \"The management of Milano Market deeply regrets the wrongful actions of our employee in stopping and frisking Forest Whitaker.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;\"While we can not delve into the employee's mindset, we do not believe that he was racially motivated in his actions, simply misguided.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Market says it is taking steps to retrain employees so it doesn't happen again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there's more ... the rep says the store wants to reach out to Forest so it could make a donation to the charity of his choice, in an effort to make things right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=\"update_bar\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/08/09/update-bar.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:45 PM PT&lt;/strong&gt; -- The shop owner just called in to TMZ Live to issue a formal apology for the incident. &amp;#160;He also said he FIRED the guy who frisked Forest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_m6hepa46\"&gt;&lt;img class=\"lightbox-link\" alt=\"021813_forest_tmzlive_launch\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/02/18/021813-forest-tmzlive-launch-2.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.tmz.com/2013/02/18/forest-whitaker-deli-apologizes-milano-marker-nyc-charity/>