Posted on 12/01/2014 12:38:55 PM PST by beaversmom
What does the shooting death of an 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, have to do with a shopper in a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart?
Quite a lot, if you ask the shopper.
When a man was detained on Black Friday and asked to prove that he had paid for his merchandise, he quickly got his friend to start recording and invoked the name of Michael Brown as he defended himself against the police.
The problem: as the video shows, the police officer talking to the shopper remains extraordinarily calm, even as the shopper yells at him and refuses to comply with his requests.
“He knows who I am,” the shopper says of the officer, claiming that he shouldn’t have to show ID because, “[the officer is] the arresting officer on one of my cases.”
According to the video description posted on YouTube, the officer is Michael Manfredi of the South Strabane Police Department in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
The officer has apparently been called to the Wal-Mart by the store’s security team, and he calmly follows the shopper to the parking lot as the shopper loudly refuses to hand the officer his receipt.
The shopper waves the receipt in front of the officer’s face, but he doesn’t allow the officer to hold the receipt or even take a picture of it.
Soon, despite no apparent aggression from the officer, the shopper starts running around the parking lot yelling at the top of his lungs.
“My hands are up!” the man starts shouting. “He’s trying to Mike Brown me!”
The police officer’s calm remains strong through the end of the encounter, when he allows the shopper to go free — even though the man kept refusing to let him hold the receipt.
Business ‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Keep a Close Eye on the Cop’s Reaction as a Black Friday Shopper Claims That He’s Being Harassed Like ‘Mike Brown’ Nov. 29, 2014 11:22am Zach Noble 19.8K Shares
What does the shooting death of an 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, have to do with a shopper in a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart?
Quite a lot, if you ask the shopper.
When a man was detained on Black Friday and asked to prove that he had paid for his merchandise, he quickly got his friend to start recording and invoked the name of Michael Brown as he defended himself against the police.
The problem: as the video shows, the police officer talking to the shopper remains extraordinarily calm, even as the shopper yells at him and refuses to comply with his requests. Image via YouTube
Image via YouTube
“He knows who I am,” the shopper says of the officer, claiming that he shouldn’t have to show ID because, “[the officer is] the arresting officer on one of my cases.”
According to the video description posted on YouTube, the officer is Michael Manfredi of the South Strabane Police Department in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
The officer has apparently been called to the Wal-Mart by the store’s security team, and he calmly follows the shopper to the parking lot as the shopper loudly refuses to hand the officer his receipt. Image via YouTube
Image via YouTube
The shopper waves the receipt in front of the officer’s face, but he doesn’t allow the officer to hold the receipt or even take a picture of it.
Soon, despite no apparent aggression from the officer, the shopper starts running around the parking lot yelling at the top of his lungs.
“My hands are up!” the man starts shouting. “He’s trying to Mike Brown me!”
The police officer’s calm remains strong through the end of the encounter, when he allows the shopper to go free — even though the man kept refusing to let him hold the receipt.
Watch the encounter below (content warning: strong language):
On Reddit, commenters responded with disgust that someone would invoke the name of the slain Brown to justify not showing a cop a receipt on Black Friday.
“As someone who works Asset Protection at a retail store, I can almost guarantee that whoever was attempting to stop these two and got officers involved had probable cause to do so,” one person wrote on Reddit. “I’m assuming that this was on Black Friday and after purchasing some of their merchandise they went back into the store and placed a few more items into their cart and attempted to leave the store.”
The top comment on Reddit was more succinct: “Absolutely disgusting. He should be ashamed of himself.”
Another commenter speculated, “He’s probably too dumb to be ashamed, or more likely has his head too far up his own a** to hear anyone telling him so. F******g ridiculous idiot.”
“he allows the shopper to go free — even though the man kept refusing to let him hold the receipt.”
The thug got away with the crime.
Which is exactly why all cops should be wearing cameras - Then we would all see how much some people act like feral animals. 99% of the time the camera vindicates the actions of the police officer.
This thug's BS is a variation on the old, "I'll sue for false arrest!" knowing full well he's busted.
I’d lay money down he stole something. He knew making a scene will kowtow the LEO because of “public relations”.
Black people in America aren’t oppressed. They’re spoiled.
Melanin - it means you don’t have to abide by YT’s rules.
It's true! You cannot fix stupid. (But you can point and laugh!)
They should have called the EMT and had him strapped on a gurney for being a loon.
Also, they could probably go in that store and look at the videos of the registers.
All the more reason for the cop to stop, question, detain suspect until probable cause is ruled out.
When this modern criminal justice system crashes, as it seems it is (for refusal to stop black crime), we will see a bloodbath not seen in America since race riots in the 1920s, or worse, the Civil War.
Pants up! Don’t Loot!
Seems like an øbamic plot.
LOL!!!..............................you just can't make this stuff up!.................
"I shouldn't have to show him my receipt because I get arrested so often, the cop KNOWS me!"
There's stupid, and then there's too stupid to live.
And it is getting worst. It will not be long before heads start to roll and it will be belligerent blacks.
Which has always been the endgame.
“he allows the shopper to go free — even though the man kept refusing to let him hold the receipt.”
The thug got away with the crime.
The "street" version of reparations.
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