Yep. Here in Houston, I was in a Best Buy electronics store and watched a black guy walk in, proceeded to the music area. Picked out a CD or CD’s and began removing the security wrapping. I’m standing right next to this idiot.
So, I walked away, went to the front where the security dudes were standing in their bright yellow security dude shirts and said,”Hey guys, there is a guy back there...oh wait, here he comes. He is stealing merchandise”. They stood there as the thug approached, walk right by them and out the door.
I said,”you guys aren’t going to stop him?” They said, naw it’s too late. lol Couldn’t believe it.
Happens so much, they just let it go.
My neighbor's kid worked at Dick Sporting Goods a few years ago. It was his first 'real' job. They were trained to never intervene in a shoplifting event - get a description of the perp and call mall security was all they were to do.
Its not that he wanted to be a hero, rather for a naive, properly-raised kid, it was a lesson on real-world modern American lawfare, corporate governance, and especially, race.
“not my job”
I also saw a brazen theft by a black guy at Best Buy. There’s something wrong with that chain. Likely that the security guards are complicit or afraid to act.