Lamar Clarkson

Lamar Clarkson is the owner of a clothing store located in, New York City. He is known for providing jobs to local teenagers such as Darius Carpenter.

Clarkson is fair but firm regarding allowing teens to gather at his store only allowing them to linger if it's school-related business. He often bends his own rules when it comes to Darius after the level of abuse his mother and her boyfriends inflicted on Darius came to light such as allowing members of the Spectres to hang out at the store or giving Darius his meal break when they do show up. He also tries to lead by example and constantly refuses to buy merchandise from the pirate Hondo Ohnaka and has even thrown Ohnaka out of the store in the style of Uncle Phil from followed by having Ohnaka arrested when the pirate follows Clarkson back into the store to continue the sales pitch.

In August 2019, Clarkson was by a man intending to rob him who was unaware that Darius was in the store's backroom and had overheard the robbery attempt begin. While Clarkson was being forced to open the store's safe, Darius managed to pull his blaster on the robber and catch him off-guard using a tactic he had been taught by Thrawn followed by the arrival of Landon McKnight and his Stormtroopers. Clarkson shook off the incident and reopened the store the next day despite hearing that the robber and his unseen partner were linked to other robberies in the area where the store owners had been ed as he knew what to expect when Landon told him that he'd be hearing from Connie Rubirosa about the trial process.