I appreciate that. Man, I took a beating in that thread for what I thought was an offhand comment.
I must confess, I didn’t agree with your initial statement. As a retired LEO, I kept thinking how would I have handled the incident and at the end of the day, I probably would have told the customer to leave.
Unfortunately, this isn’t cut and dried like someone trespassing on private property. That’s pretty straightforward. There are some nuances here since it is a retail shop, but even though the clerk was an a$$, he still had the right to ask the customer to leave and that is what your position was from the beginning.