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Since when is it shoplifting when you're still inside the store or at the very least trying to exit? I've had my hands full many times and put something in my pocket for a couple of minutes until I re-aranged things. I've gone shopping at the store and didn't get a cart or carrier then realized I needed more than I could carry then walked towards the front doors with stuff in my hands to get one of those plastic baskets (that's the only place they keep 'em) so should I have been thrown to the ground and arrested?
It's always been my understanding that for a charge of theft to be made you actually have to leave OR attempt to leave with an item not paid for. From the video it seems he was well within the store and not passed the cash registers.
Now if they'd watched him until he attempted to leave that'd be another thing all together.
Witnesses said that's when a police officer grabbed the man and slammed him to the ground – possibly thinking he was stealing the game.
On a cell phone video taken at the Walmart, blood can be seen streaming from the grandfather's face. But witnesses said police didn't believe anything was wrong until they turned the man over.
“They grabbed the guy, body planted him into the ground -- face shatters on concrete. That's a hard concrete floor inside Walmart.
“All of a sudden, you see this little boy run up and wailing and yelling, ‘Grandpa, Grandpa,’ and crying his eyes out,” Stone said.
Witnesses said the man had about $600 worth of electronics that he was purchasing and wasn't trying to steal anything. They said he was just trying to get his grandson out of harm's way.
Have we now reached a time where it's Barbaric Police vs Innocent citizens ....but the Police 'get away' with their Wicked ways?
Except that Grampa was stealing a video game and even bringing a child on a shopping rampage where the child could be trampled.
I don't care what happens to ANY greedy out-of-control consumer on BF. They are only victims of their own materialistic lust.
The article says grandpa put the video in his waistband so he could pick up his grandchild because the other shoppers were going crazy and starting to rip open video game boxes.
Conveniently, the Wallymart cameras didn't catch any of it.
My son is into video games and we went to Target on Wednesday before Thanksgiving and got some game that just came out for the xBox360. Since it was new there was no price reduction and the sales person said it would not be on sale for Black Friday because it just came out.
Plenty were in stock and hardly anyone was in the store.
America likes cops, law and order, obedience, discipline, and will accept brutality as a way to enforce American values.
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Police brutality at Walmart -- it's time to get outraged America
