[one guy in new jersey]

Here’s a typical statute (stealth is one way to rob, but there are other ways obviously):

§ 22-2801. Robbery. | D.C. Law Library
Whoever by force or violence, whether against resistance or by sudden or stealthy seizure or snatching, or by putting in fear, shall take from the person or immediate actual possession of another anything of value, is guilty of robbery, and any person convicted thereof shall suffer imprisonment for not less than 2 years nor more than 15 years.

[tired&retired]

It sounds as though there was verbal resistance as the owner told him to stop.

[joma89]

Stupid people voting in even stupider people create the stupidist laws.

democracy in any form is a failed way to choose government.

[sipow]

What I don’t understand is that this was in Ohio and the Ohio law includes a couple other methods of theft that would clearly apply:

(A) No person, with purpose to deprive the owner of property or services, shall knowingly obtain or exert control over either the property or services in any of the following ways:

(1) Without the consent of the owner or person authorized to give consent;

(2) Beyond the scope of the express or implied consent of the owner or person authorized to give consent;

(3) By deception;

(4) By threat;

(5) By intimidation.

The owner was there telling him to stop so that surely met the first requirement.

https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2913.02

[Albion Wilde]

...whether against resistance or by sudden or stealthy seizure or snatching, or by putting in fear...

Would certainly seen to meet these criteria.

Unless the perp was Black.