Late last week, a video made the rounds of man in Stockton, Calif., brazenly attempting to shoplift tobacco products from a convenience store, then finding himself on the wrong end of a stick wielded by a clerk.
And I told my wife at the time as I watched the video, in California the police will be going after the guys who stopped the robbery, not the would-be thief. I was correct.
As reported in an editorial by The Modesto Bee (BeeSsss?) headlined “Stockton 7-11 Clerks Went Too Far In Viciously Beating Brazen Shoplifter,” the newspaper’s gutlessly anonymous “editorial board” parrots a TV report that workers are “being investigated” by the local police and sounds off that the two clerks “went too far.”
To recap for those who have not watched the video, although you can easily find it by doing a search for “Stockton 7-11 robber beat with stick,” a partially masked man is captured on video by a spectator in the store. The attempted shoplifter is pushing a huge, wheeled garbage can up and down a row of tobacco products, knocking them into the trash for the purpose of moving them out the door without paying.
The man also makes what one report regarding the video took to be oral as well as physical indications that he was armed. Later, the video catches part of something being pulled from his waistband by the attempted thief and then put back. Perhaps a knife?
Whether this guy had a weapon or not is immaterial in the civilized world. It is a common tenet of law that if you give anyone an indication during a robbery that you have a weapon, it is armed robbery, even if it’s found to be just your finger or a pencil being used to simulate a gun or knife.
All the time that the spectator is filming, he provides running commentary, mostly to the effect that the workers should just let Old Smoky walk out with his swag because that’s the way it is in California and, besides, they probably have insurance that will cover it.
In the last paragraph of the newspaper editorial, it finally gets around to mentioning reports that the man allegedly had robbed the store previously and, here’s the kicker, the store sits “JUST ACROSS THE STREET” from a Stockton police station.
Perhaps this is why people are fleeing California in droves.
One clerk grabbed the tobacco harvester while the other guy came into view with a stick. That second clerk wore a turban typical of Sikh’s and thrashed on the thief with said stick.
The story on zerohedge.com about police investigating the clerks included a reference to reports that the same guy had been in the store three times that same evening, each time threatening clerks and stealing from them.
And now the clerks are the ones confronting possible legal action.
Coming soon to a town near you if Biden and his liberal stooges continue to be successful in warping the nation’s sense of right and wrong.
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