Posted on 08/09/2023 11:40:17 PM PDT by grundle
5 Sarah Rumpf-Whitten Wed, August 9, 2023 at 11:42 PM EDT·1 min read
A Georgia man, who was seen by Target employees stealing a TV, was caught red-handed after a police officer was waiting to arrest him at the store's exit. The alleged shoplifter and the responding police officer engaged in a dramatic tussle in the store as well as in the parking lot.
The Atlanta Police Department said in a social media post that law enforcement was called in the evening to a local Target store on Monday, August 7 after the store called law enforcement after a man was stealing an expensive television.
When they arrived, officers followed the unnamed suspect from the store. When the suspect spotted the responding officer, officials say he ran.
Body camera footage released by police shows the officer catching up to the suspect just outside the store and the pair begin to fight.
"I don't want to go to jail," the suspect is heard wailing in the body camera footage. "I don't want to go to f------ jail."
The pair continued to fight at the entrance of the Target store until additional officers responded to the scene. Footage from police shows the pair grappling on the pavement in front of the store as onlookers watched in horror.
"Please stop, I need to go to the hospital," the suspect is repeatedly heard saying in the footage.
According to authorities, the man was charged with felony shoplifting and felony obstruction.
The officer and the alleged shoplifter had minor injuries following the altercation, police said.
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Oh, and Utah was pretty well ruled out by the first word in the headline.
The last sentence in the Lego commercial at the start was ‘another win for Megan Rapinoe’. LOL!
Until some liberal judge sets him loose again, that is.
Its in East Atlanta near Inman Park. I’ve been here for 38 years and I wouldn’t go there even though its supposedly been re-gentrified.
“This awesome five minute video shows that Georgia is the exact opposite of California when it comes to how they treat shoplifters.”
Is it, really? Or is it just that the shoplifter was the wrong shade. Nevertheless, this shoplifter should have informed himself on the “limits” in Georgia. The tv he tried to steal was probably over $300 and will result in a felony charge.
And this incident is exactly ‘why’ the leftist DAs that decriminalize shoplifting in other states are damaging the nation in more ways than one. It incentivizes those that might normally not break the law to go get their “”freebies”” when they see ‘other people’ getting away with it.
https://www.nevillecunat.com/blog/2020/10/when-is-shoplifting-considered-a-felony/
Yeah, no thanks.
A former co-worker of an old friend bought/built a $million dollar house down there half a dozen years ago. I thought he was nuts then. After 2020? Completely insane. I need to ask about how they’re doing, if they’re still down there.
You’ll have to call out to him facing down.
Its bad enough in Gwinnett county (Lilburn) where we are.
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