Sounds like the “store” pressed charges, though, or at least the local police. This went beyond a handshake agreement (i.e., “apologize”), apparently, so maybe this woman felt little choice. Maybe she didn’t know until the police served them.
According the to video she had to pick up her daughter at the police station. That surprises me because I would have thought they would have called her to come to the store if she was placed under arrest. It may be the store’s policy to press charges against all shoplifters to discourage it and nothing against her daughter. However if she was “old school” as some of here on FR are she still could have later taken her daughter back to the store and made the child apologize and offer to pay for the item telling the manager that she is trying to teach the child better. Honestly with the “not my kid” mentality going around I would like to think that some store managers would welcome that rather than have to appear in court.