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GA Lowe’s worker punched 3 times trying to stop thieves. She’s now been fired after 13 years on job
WSBTV-Atlanta ^ | 7/21/23 | staff

Posted on 07/21/2023 11:20:34 AM PDT by CFW

RINCON, Ga. — A Georgia Lowe’s store employee has been fired after trying to stop thieves from stealing thousands of dollars worth of stuff.

Police said three people came into the store in Rincon and loaded up their shopping cart with about $2,100 worth of merchandise.

As they were trying to leave the store without paying, employee Donna Hansbrough, 68, grabbed the cart, trying to stop them, police said.

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As for Hansbrough, she was fired from Lowe’s for violating the store’s policy, police said.

She had been employed at the store for 13 years.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: blacks; crime; donnahansbrough; employees; ga; lowes; robbery; theft
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To: CFW

Too many big box stores think they can just pass on higher prices to cover up the shop lifting.

We need to start making a list of stores who have fired employees who attempted to stop shoplifting and put them on the NO MORE BUD LIST.


61 posted on 07/21/2023 1:31:09 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: CFW

They know the rules. 13 years flushed down the toilet.


62 posted on 07/21/2023 1:39:43 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: CFW

They deserve every single theft. You can’t require employees to risk their lives but you don’t need to take their job for trying to prevent theft.


63 posted on 07/21/2023 1:48:44 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: alternatives?

So all us white people should shoplift from Lowes to balance out the equation so they don’t get called Racist.


64 posted on 07/21/2023 1:58:46 PM PDT by oldasrocks (uit )
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To: CFW

The A/C unit I walked out with didn’t work right. I’ll take a cash refund. :D


65 posted on 07/21/2023 1:59:09 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: CFW

BTW, what’s the difference between walking out with merch or just grabbing a cash register and walking out? It’s all theft just the same.


66 posted on 07/21/2023 2:01:12 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: CFW

Not worth it. If the stores didn’t want people to steal, they would set up and staff the stores accordingly. But they didn’t and they don’t. Just take your cues from corporate and try not to think too much about it.


67 posted on 07/21/2023 2:28:37 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: CFW

Fire the person who made the policy and give her a raise!!


68 posted on 07/21/2023 2:31:15 PM PDT by FES0844
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To: alternatives?; dynachrome; oldasrocks

<>Then 80% of the thefts should be by whites. Otherwise, Lowe’s is racist.<>

People on drugs or alcohol cause 30% of traffic fatalities.

By your logic, the 70% sober people are the real menace.


69 posted on 07/21/2023 2:36:53 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: OKSooner

Walmart owns Lowe’s?


70 posted on 07/21/2023 2:37:47 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Suceed, Well So Much For Skydiving ~)
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To: CFW
Another case in which a long-timed employee was fired for trying to stop a crime.

There was another one where the employee was fired for taking videos of the thieves and their vehicle, to assist the police.

71 posted on 07/21/2023 2:38:29 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
I am a part time team member at Home Depot they pound it repeatedly into our heads to NEVER confront a shoplifter NEVER under any circumstances!!

I can understand avoiding a physical confrontation, but what about photo/video recording of the incident, for which at least one employee was terminated?

72 posted on 07/21/2023 2:44:00 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

A Colorado supermarket employee was fired after he recorded three men stealing approximately $500 worth of laundry detergent from the store on Father’s Day. Santino Burrola, the King Soopers employee, was alerted to a theft in progress at the store and the first thing he thought to do was pull out his phone and record it.


73 posted on 07/21/2023 2:46:36 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Redleg Duke
I stepped in front of the cart and he panicked, let go of the cart and dashed out the exit. His eyes looked vacant.

The manager on duty stepped up to me and told me that if I ever did that again, he would see me fired.

Maybe your stopping the crime deprived him of his "cut"!

74 posted on 07/21/2023 2:49:18 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: EEGator

A sympathetic judge and jury, with a sizable award or settlement to the fired employee would tend to mitigate the punitive behavior against the employee.


75 posted on 07/21/2023 2:54:40 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: af_vet_1981

I doubt they would win, but some actuary probably ran the numbers on payoffs of fired that actually sue vs injuries and suits by criminals.
What “was right” in the past doesn’t seem to matter now.


76 posted on 07/21/2023 2:58:00 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: SkyDancer

Yes.


77 posted on 07/21/2023 3:08:13 PM PDT by OKSooner ("That's not my concern.")
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To: CFW

If this were me, I would be taking stuff in the store as they were escorting me out. Apparently, they can’t stop you once you have merchandise in your hands.

Then I’d come back later with a pickup and start clearing shit from the parking lot displays.


78 posted on 07/21/2023 3:15:27 PM PDT by hattend (F U Pedo Joe.)
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To: albie
...if you’re white and straight, you’ll never get away with it.

Not necessarily true. My wife sees thieves at Lowes all the time, very few "POC" types.

79 posted on 07/21/2023 3:17:41 PM PDT by hattend (F U Pedo Joe.)
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To: chopperk
After this report, I Won’t shop at Lowes, it shows their disregard for security as an invitation to criminals.

It doesn't matter, all retail stores have this rule against confronting thieves.

80 posted on 07/21/2023 3:22:54 PM PDT by hattend (F U Pedo Joe.)
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