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It was a satisfying video for those who see America sinking into a criminal abyss: a brazen robber was systematically working his way through a Stockton, California convenience store's cigarette shelves, pouring hundreds of packs into a huge garbage can on wheels. Eventually, one clerk grappled with him, and another began whacking his legs with a long stick. The clerks are now being investigated for assault under the theory that you cannot use deadly force to protect commercial property. That's just wrong. ... police are investigating the clerks for criminal assault. These are the same police who never showed up...

Two Sikh 7-Eleven workers who attacked a thief after he repeatedly targeted their store are under investigation for assault, police in California have said. In a now-viral video, the workers are seen smacking the suspect with a stick after he entered the store in Stockton with a garbage can and began filling it with tobacco products from behind the counter. The attempted theft on July 29 was allegedly the third time in two days the man had targeted the store. On a previous occasion, he tried to intimidate staff by claiming he had a handgun. Despite widespread praise for the...

Taking matters into their own hands. (Credit: Joel Fischer/Twitter) As RedState reported, a Sikh convenience store owner turned the tables on a shoplifter as he attempted to get away with thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise.The viral scene unfolded in California, showing a man shoveling entire shelves worth of tobacco and other products into a trash can while taunting the owner with proclamations that “there’s nothing you can do.” The shoplifter quickly learned that wasn’t true, though, as he was tackled to the ground and beaten with a rod.Sikh grocery store owner was told that "there ain't nothing you...

Store clerks have legal options when someone shoplifts. Teaming up to brutally beat the thief isn’t one of them. No wonder two 7-11 clerks in Stockton who battered a would-be shoplifter with a wooden rod are being investigated by police, as reported on TV news. Although brazen stealing is frustrating, costly and dangerous to store employees, confronting it with violence that far exceeds self-defense is not the answer.

California 7-Eleven workers beat robber with stick until suspect starts crying

They confronted the suspect about why he was stealing so much, but the thief threatened to shoot them and continued to scoop armfuls of goods into the trash can. The workers eventually had enough and came together to restrain him and hit the suspect with a large wooden stick.

Taking matters into their own hands. (Credit: Joel Fischer/Twitter) It appears some people aren’t going to put up with brazen looters any more.The 1976 film Network had one iconic moment, where Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch, started a social phenomenon by declaring during a live broadcast that his viewers should all shout, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!”Looting of retail establishments has become a far worse pandemic than COVID was. Thieves boldly walk in, stuff bags and boxes full of merchandise and stroll out, knowing nothing will be done. Stores are resorting...

A business owner finally said enough is enough. Video posted on social media shows a shoplifter loading up a large garbage can with a massive amount of merchandise. The owner stormed into the aisle with a large stick and commended to beating the living daylights out of the bad guy.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Tuesday imposed a citywide curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. beginning Tuesday night as the city remained without power and residents struggled to find gasoline and other essentials. The announcement came with just three hours notice, but Cantrell characterized the curfew as a "proactive" public safety measure. New Orleans Police Chief Shaun Ferguson said officers have made "several" looting arrests and said it was not widespread, but he refused to disclose how many there had been. Ferguson said he was withholding the number of arrests to prevent "a false narrative about this city."

POWER All eight transmission towers that deliver power into the New Orleans area are currently out of service Entergy is working to assess damage and identify a path forward to restore power Unknown when power will be restored. Could be weeks. WATER S&WB says they are currently maintaining water pressure in the city of New Orleans, meaning no precautionary boil water advisories Both 52-WATER and backup phone lines are down, so there is no way for customers to reach S&WB Despite losing Entergy power, the S&WB turbines continue to churn out power for the city's 96 operational drainage pumps Sewer...

Target has re-opened its looted Minneapolis store that was completely ransacked during the George Floyd riots over 5 months ago with the goal of catering more to black shoppers and being less “racist.” Yes, really. According to a Bloomberg report, there is now a new “mural” at the entrance of the store and it has been completely remodeled by a contracting company owned by a Somali-American woman in order to make it more welcoming for black people. The store will also stock more products made by black-owned brands. In August, Target’s new “racial justice committee” outlined the goal of responding...

On Thursday, August 27th, the same day Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination, National Public Radio aired an interview with Vicky Osterweil, author of a book called In Defense of Looting. The white trans daughter of a science professor, Osterweil told a credulous NPR interviewer that looting was justified because it “strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police,” and also “provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure.” She added riots reveal how “without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.” I was so sure the Osterweil book...

A woman in a wheelchair was punched in the head and sprayed with a fire extinguisher after trying to block protesters - allegedly with a knife in her hand - during the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis last night. The woman claimed she was 'peacefully protesting' to stop people from looting a Target store, but she was quickly set upon by a crowd who subdued her in angry scenes on the second night of violence in the city. The crowd outside the Target store shouted that the woman had a knife, and footage showed her holding what appeared to be...

A woman in a wheelchair was punched in the head and sprayed with a fire extinguisher after trying to block protesters - allegedly with a knife in her hand - during the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis last night. The woman claimed she was 'peacefully protesting' to stop people from looting a Target store, but she was quickly set upon by a crowd who subdued her in angry scenes on the second night of violence in the city. The crowd outside the Target store shouted that the woman had a knife, and footage showed her holding what appeared to be...

Anger over the death of George Floyd spilled into the streets of Minneapolis for a second night Wednesday, as protesters lobbed rocks and bottles at police and gathered separately outside the homes of Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and the fired officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck. Protests also took place in Duluth. A large crowd gathered outside Minneapolis’ Third Precinct police headquarters, throwing objects at the building and officers. Police deployed rubber bullets, flash bombs and tear gas to push them back. Fired police officer Derek Chauvin and three other officers who were at the scene of Floyd’s death...

When San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White retired after 15 years leading the department, she joined the ranks of a growing financial elite — the 139 former city workers collecting pensions of more than $200,000 a year. Most are former police and firefighter brass, and some are making more in retirement than they did when working. And it’s not only in San Francisco. Hayes-White is receiving a pension of $311,560 a year, with cost of living increases of 2% or more each year. “To put these high pensions into perspective, a guaranteed $200,000 annual pension for 25 years would require...

CUOMO: To take a greater risk on these mortgages, yes. To give families mortgages that they would not have given otherwise, yes. Q: [unintellible] … that they would not have given the loans at all? CUOMO: They would not have qualified but for this affirmative action on the part of the bank, yes. Q: Are minorities represented in that low and moderate income group? CUOMO: It is by income, and is it also by minorities? Yes. CUOMO: With the 2.1 billion, lending that amount in mortgages — which will be a higher risk, and I’m sure there will be a...

The couple called GMAC and thought they had mad the proper payment arraignments, but they thought wrong. “We've talked to the mortgage company many times over the past 22 months and every time they refused [to help],” said Jessica. Last week, Cordray filed a lawsuit against GMAC and parent company Ally, accusing them of signing affidavits swearing they had personal knowledge of late payment cases when they did not. The Mossings and several other Lucas County residents are listed as victims. “The lender is saying ‘well I've got to file 400 of these today and so I'm just going to...

In 2006, at the height of the housing bubble, Montgomery County paid $1 million to buy a two-story colonial in North Bethesda with a log cabin jutting out on one side. The house had been on the market only a couple of months, but county officials felt compelled to act quickly: This might be their only chance to save the real Uncle Tom's Cabin - the former home of Josiah Henson, the model for the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal antislavery novel. Since 2006, state and county officials have spent another $1 million to expand and study the...

wo state Democratic politicians have introduced bills that would increase monthly pension payments by 16.7 percent for certain "political appointees" who retire this year. State Representative George Cushingberry, D-Detroit, and State Senator Gilda Jacobs, D-Huntington Woods, introduced the legislation in late September. Cushingberry introduced House Bill 6512 and Jacobs introduced Senate Bill 1500. Both didn't respond to e-mails and phone messages seeking comment. Neither bill has been brought up for a vote, and one GOP state representative said the House version has no chance of passing. "They are dead on arrival," said State Represeantative Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge. "I'm totally...