Posted on 08/14/2023 3:01:23 PM PDT by grundle
Video: https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1691096692345753600
Santino Burrola thought he was following the rules.
When he noticed a man pushing a cart full of laundry detergent out of the Denver-area King Soopers grocery store where he worked as a security guard, the former military police officer pulled out his Samsung Galaxy S22 phone and started filming.
Following the man and a second suspect out to the parking lot, Burrola recorded the pair hastily loading the haul into a black Chevrolet Trax, where a third man was waiting in the driver's seat.
When one of the men closed the hatchback, Burrola noticed the license plate was covered with a piece of aluminum foil, which he gently plucked off, revealing the plate number.
Burrola then uploaded the video to TikTok on Father's Day. It quickly went viral on that platform as well as Instagram and Reddit. The original video now has more than 1.5 million views and was even shared by hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg.
The foil was the "only thing I could snatch without losin my job," Burrola said in a comment on his TikTok post.
His employer saw it differently, however.
As it happens, King Soopers' parent company, Kroger, has a policy against engaging or interfering with shoplifters.
Burrola told the Denver CBS affiliate he was suspended when he arrived for his next shift and fired the following week.
"I and the union rep sat down with them and they [King Soopers] recommended termination and so I got fired that day," Burrola said.
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And we’re shocked in what way exactly? More store owners protecting thieves that want to put them out of business.
What idiots. Incredible.
King Soopers indeed.
Everything we thought we knew about life is now turned completely topsy turvy.
Give me that time machine.
In each of these types of news stories, why not counsel workers instead of firing them?
The unions are pro-Democrat and the thieves are their constiuents 99% percent of the time. So, they went with the thieves. Kroger will just raise prices and steal that money from other honest customers. Mighty fine what ghe union did for you son. All those dues...and nothing.
I wonder what the odds are the thieves voted for Joe Biden in 2020?
It’s getting worse. The mask is off and it’s everyone have at it—reparations is here and now. Take everything.
In our society there are criminals who don’t give a crap about the consequences of their actions, and there are people who will not commit crimes because they have morals. Then there are a bunch of people in the middle who will not commit a crime not out of morality, but out of fear of getting caught and punished. Those people, when they see criminals not getting punished for their crimes, will join them. That is how the average of what is accepted behavior falls, and that’s exactly what’s happening here. Remember when it was embarrassing to be on food stamps? Same thing.
Yeah, we're pretending the law of cause and effect no longer exist.
Many times !
Security worker- sounds like a real easy job! Just stand around and watch; don't interfere with or even document the incident.
It’s King Scooper’s new Grocery Lending Program.
Continuing saga of stores firing employees who protect the store; honoring shoplifters.
As part of Anarcho-Tyranny, one of the things the Regime wants to do is to take away any private initiative to deal with behavioral misconduct.
The regime wants its subjects to:
“Shelter in place, and wait for the Authorities.”
Free stuff!!!
They used to call it “crime” back in the old days.......
If only there was a law against shoplifting!
An accomplice named BUGSY...how rich!
Are you a retail worker who’s had to witness a shoplifting incident without intervening? Please get in touch with reporter Dominick Reuter via email. Responses will be kept confidential.
Burrola’s footage has yielded results, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff, which issued a statement identifying the driver as 32-year-old Jorge Pantoja, who has been arrested, and the two accomplices as Robert and Bugsy, who remain at large.
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