Colorado Grocery Store Employee Fired for Filming Shoplifters Stealing $500 in Laundry Detergent
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People keep siding with the employee, but its likely he violated company policy by following them. Most of them have it in the rules you "do not chase" and let the cops deal with it. I had a store manager who said he'd fire anyone who took a single step out the door after a thief.
Its understandable to not want society to crumble at the hands of thieves, but some of these assholes pull guns. I've worked in retail back in the day and they showed us videos of stuff like that just to get the message across.
I can understand keeping your distance and filming, but this guy was up-close-and-personal. He was right behind the vehicle. The driver could've easily slammed on the gas and ran backwards over him.
also, the title is misleading.
he didn't just film them, he bargained with them, ripped off the licence plate cover and filmed the licence plate, and then he posted the recording on tiktok to try and get them identified. that's not just filming - that's vigilantism.
that said, do I support what he did? absolutely
I wonder if the only reason the cops got off their asses was because the employee uploaded the vid to TikTok and made it viral. Would the cops have done anything if the employee showed it to the cops first? (Rhetorical question, I know.)
Yeah, its really a situation of "put your justice instinct aside for a moment" because logically there is no safe or good reason to try and be the hero. The company might be doing it for their selfish reasons, but they are still right about it.
Which unfortunately means that sometimes a good person trying to do a good thing gets consequences against all good reason.
The true problem here is a society where crime is so rampant and bad that cops don't have the time or energy to stomping these types.