"Being black is not a threat! Being black is not a threat!" protesters chanted outside Amarcord Vintage Fashion store in Williamsburg on Friday.

The demonstration came after a Brooklyn lawyer and her daughter said they were falsely accused of shoplifting because of racial profiling.

"She kept insisting that we had stolen things from the store," Nancy Bedard said at the protest.

Bedard said she and her 19-year-old daughter were trying on clothes at the vintage store last Friday when a white female employee confronted them and accused them of stealing an item.

"The reality is when people make these calls for no basis and no reason, they are constantly putting people at risk of serious danger," said Bedard.

Police were called, but they didn't find any stolen merchandise on the women, who were handcuffed and later taken by EMS to a local hospital to be treated for injuries to their arms.

A woman riding by the protest defended the store, saying the call for a boycott was unfair.

"This store — they are the nicest people," she said. "It's been here for 20 years. So I cannot believe that they're doing this."

An attorney representing the owners of Amarcord Vintage Fashion said it was not a case of racial profiling, and said no one accused the women of stealing.

Attorney Daniel Kron: It looked as though on our security cameras that they may have come out of the fitting rooms with less items then they came in with. A simple inquiry was all that was made, and immediately thereafter this turned into a racial discrimination case, where there is no basis whatsoever for that.

Boone: But isn't that an accusation of shoplifting if you walk out and somebody says you came out of the fitting room with less items than you went in with?

Kron: Nobody said that.

Police said they were called to the store to investigate shoplifting.

Bedard's husband, Philip Sturges, who posted about the incident on Facebook last week, said the employee should be fired and his wife and daughter deserve an apology.

Through a statement, the company said it has tried to apologize to the family on its social media page, but it said that apology has been removed.

"I don't think they would've been treated the way they were treated if they hadn't been people of color. I think the white employee of the store made assumptions about them," Sturges said. "She made accusations that have no basis in fact. She made things up. She claimed that she had video tape of them stealing."

The attorney for the store said there is video of the women acting suspiciously. When NY1 asked to see it, he said it wasn't available but it will be public soon.