[traumer]

...but Latoya Greenwood, 38

[Farmer Dean]

Holder’s people again.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

An East St. Louis couple...

And, the rest of the story writes itself.

[tennmountainman]

This couple did not realize you have to get your Obama phone thru
the government, not just walk out with it at Best Buy.

[CrazyIvan]

61 is not elderly. I'm not far from that and any uppity kid that slaps me will find that you accumulate a lot of dirty tricks in five decades.

[Avid Coug]

So...what’s the rest of the story? Did lovely Latoya steal the merchandise she was leaving with?

[Aevery_Freeman]

How dare dat Cracka mofo impede dees good folk in dey lawful act of redistrabutin’!

[COBOL2Java]

Latoya Greenwood is an East St. Louis Councilwoman.

[Responsibility2nd]

Hickey and Latoya.

[foundedonpurpose]

As a contractor, I hate and stay away from east St Louis, Now I have 3 jobs over there from a good general, WTF people get killed over there for no reason daily, and it makes less news than Chicago. Now they are highlighting a beating and it makes national news.

The media is so sad and pathetic!

[COBOL2Java]

Former Althoff football star charged with battery of Best Buy employee

A former metro-east football star was charged with aggravated battery, a class 3 felony, Thursday by the St. Clair County State's Attorney's Office following an incident at Best Buy in Fairview Heights. According to police, Hickey D. Thompson, who earned a mention in Sports Illustrated as the star of Althoff Catholic High School's football teams that won back-to-back state championships in 1989 and 1990, allegedly hit a Best Buy employee in the face during an altercation at about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday. The employee was identified in court records as Gary Thompson.

Hickey Thompson's companion, Latoya N. Greenwood, an East St. Louis councilwoman, was issued a ticket for disorderly conduct, a class C misdemeanor. Greenwood works at East St. Louis School District 189.

[nevergore]

What they bdid was wrong... no doubt they should serve jail time....

But best Buy is also wrong....

They treat you like a criminal when you leave their store demanding to inspect your bag and receipt.

My wife hates going with me to Best Buy to shop, I always refuse to let them look in my bag. Once I pay for the merchandise and their employee places it in a bag, it’s my personal property. They have no rights...

I always tell the guy at the door if he shows me his drivers license and pays me $10 dollars he can peek...

Otherwise, NO.....

[CharlesWayneCT]

Interesting. Some are speculating that Latoya Greenwood is actually Councilwoman Latoya Greenwood of St. Louis. There are comments on her facebook page (this crime happened in St. Louis).

[Mamzelle]

We need a pitcure. The guy could sue them, but all they’ll have is a few used Obama phones.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Yep, she's a councilwoman.

Here's another story with more info: Belleville Man Charged With Battery:

Hickey Thompson's companion, Latoya N. Greenwood, an East St. Louis councilwoman, was issued a ticket for disorderly conduct, a class C misdemeanor. Greenwood works at East St. Louis School District 189.

They bought something somewhere else in the store, so he had to check their receipt.

[MV=PY]

La Toilette didn’t like that.

[Navy Patriot]

Another Amish couple let their cider go hard again, typical of those anti government types.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

61 is elderly?

[Cu Roi]

I assume this is the same Fairview Heights where the customers attacked a server at Red Lobster a few months ago:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/women-charged-in-attack-on-a-red-lobster-waitress-in/article_48aa63d2-e8ba-11e1-9ecc-001a4bcf6878.html

[Venturer]

They are married, but his name is Thompson and hersis Greenwood? Whats with that?