Viral clip: Grocer manager entraps special needs deli worker into stealing $100 worth of chicken tenders & fruit cups

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Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

They most certainly do. You know nothing about how cops operate. Also, what justice? Who was victimized? GTFOH

I’m a LEO, so actually, I do. I don’t agree at all with what this manager did, essentially allowing this man to steal just long enough that could charge him. I think it’ll get dismissed, but that’s neither here nor there. But from a legal standpoint, and for a judge/jury to now determine (the next step of the legal system we have set up), the “victim” is the store, since this man stole the jurisdictionally deemed appropriate value of chicken and fruit to be charged and arrested.

Again, I don’t agree with it at all, but that’s not the question. I fail to see how you can’t comprehend how this isn’t any different from you having proof and evidence that a particular person stole from you, and you want them to be held accountable. It’s not for you or me to determine whether or not your request is reasonable, it’s the police’s job to follow the law, and the law says you’re allowed to press charges against someone who wronged you, and take it as far as the court allows, and it’s the police’s job to initiate this request.

It was obvious you’re another evil “just following orders” cop. You’re a spineless coward if you would ever behave like this in uniform.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

Police and sheriffs have discretion to enforce or not enforce anything they want. You’ve never gotten a warning for speeding, expired plates, not having your insurance paperwork on you? Never had a party busted and the cops just make underage kids dump the booze out but don’t arrest and book anyone for underage intoxication and possession? You’re one of those bootlickers who thinks the police are just doing their jobs. No. This cop and his sergeant are paid $100,000+ each and this is a bullshit waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Speeding tickets are civil infractions. Finding a kid drinking underage and letting them go with a warning is different than someone calling the police to press charges because a teen came into their home and stole their alcohol. The difference is another person is involved—the victim. If the person tells the police they want to press charges, the police officer’s hands are tied. If a retail business calls the police and says they want to press charges, the police have to take the report and follow the procedure.

I can tell you firsthand that we do try to dissuade people from doing this because it is a lot of paperwork and hassle, and because most people don’t actually want justice, especially in situations like a teen stealing alcohol from a residence, they just want to make that person’s life difficult while not having it affect them, but it doesn’t work that way. We explain that they WILL have to show up to subsequent court proceedings if they choose to go forward with pressing charges. Sometimes they back down, sometimes they don’t. But retail conglomerates have lawyers of their own and the time and money to proceed, and it is their right.

With that said, I think these managers are complete jerks and deserve to be called out. But as far as whether or not the police officer in this situation could have just walked away? No, he couldn’t, and you shouldn’t want him to. The third party victim changes everything, and the officer’s hands are tied.

There is absolutely zero procedural need for an officer to place cuffs on and book a non-violent subject for ALLEGEDLY $100 worth of chicken tenders and fruit cups over two months time. For such a petty larceny the officer can issue him a paper misdemeanor civil infraction or summons and offer to drive him home. The cop was complicit in this evil and demoralizing scheme.

It depends on the jurisdiction but some department procedures require cuffing anyone who will be placed in a police car. This is the case in my jurisdiction. In my jurisdiction, we also aren’t allowed to drive people home if they live outside of our city. I don’t know the specifics of this case and I also can’t speak on what the penal codes are in Ohio or the departmental procedures in this city. But clearly the manager knows he waited long enough for the crime to be deemed arrest-able, and that’a what the police did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

They most certainly do. You know nothing about how cops operate. Also, what justice? Who was victimized? GTFOH

I’m a LEO, so actually, I do. I don’t agree at all with what this manager did, essentially allowing this man to steal just long enough that could charge him. I think it’ll get dismissed, but that’s neither here nor there. But from a legal standpoint, and for a judge/jury to now determine (the next step of the legal system we have set up), the “victim” is the store, since this man stole the jurisdictionally deemed appropriate value of chicken and fruit to be charged and arrested.

Again, I don’t agree with it at all, but that’s not the question. I fail to see how you can’t comprehend how this isn’t any different from you having proof and evidence that a particular person stole from you, and you want them to be held accountable. It’s not for you or me to determine whether or not your request is reasonable, it’s the police’s job to follow the law, and the law says you’re allowed to press charges against someone who wronged you, and take it as far as the court allows, and it’s the police’s job to initiate this request.

It was obvious you’re another evil “just following orders” cop. You’re a spineless coward if you would ever behave like this in uniform.

I follow the law in my jurisdiction. I follow my department’s procedures. I would behave like this if it was within the law and my department’s procedures. At the end of the day, I’m a person just like you with a family to feed.

The police aren’t lawmakers, and they aren’t the judge and jury, either. Law ENFORCEMENT officers. I find it interesting but not surprising that instead of blaming this abhorrently cowardly manager and his scheme, you’re blaming the police for simply doing their job in a professional manner.

[Anonymous]

The nepo baby Meijer heir whose billionaire daddy bought him a congress seat is on record defending all the PPP theft by his cronies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

They most certainly do. You know nothing about how cops operate. Also, what justice? Who was victimized? GTFOH

I’m a LEO, so actually, I do. I don’t agree at all with what this manager did, essentially allowing this man to steal just long enough that could charge him. I think it’ll get dismissed, but that’s neither here nor there. But from a legal standpoint, and for a judge/jury to now determine (the next step of the legal system we have set up), the “victim” is the store, since this man stole the jurisdictionally deemed appropriate value of chicken and fruit to be charged and arrested.

Again, I don’t agree with it at all, but that’s not the question. I fail to see how you can’t comprehend how this isn’t any different from you having proof and evidence that a particular person stole from you, and you want them to be held accountable. It’s not for you or me to determine whether or not your request is reasonable, it’s the police’s job to follow the law, and the law says you’re allowed to press charges against someone who wronged you, and take it as far as the court allows, and it’s the police’s job to initiate this request.

It was obvious you’re another evil “just following orders” cop. You’re a spineless coward if you would ever behave like this in uniform.

I follow the law in my jurisdiction. I follow my department’s procedures. I would behave like this if it was within the law and my department’s procedures. At the end of the day, I’m a person just like you with a family to feed.

The police aren’t lawmakers, and they aren’t the judge and jury, either. Law ENFORCEMENT officers. I find it interesting but not surprising that instead of blaming this abhorrently cowardly manager and his scheme, you’re blaming the police for simply doing their job in a professional manner.

I’m the PP who faults the billionaire Meijer family, corporate, all store management involved, plus the cop and his on-duty superior sergeant who authorized the response, arrest and booking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

Police and sheriffs have discretion to enforce or not enforce anything they want. You’ve never gotten a warning for speeding, expired plates, not having your insurance paperwork on you? Never had a party busted and the cops just make underage kids dump the booze out but don’t arrest and book anyone for underage intoxication and possession? You’re one of those bootlickers who thinks the police are just doing their jobs. No. This cop and his sergeant are paid $100,000+ each and this is a bullshit waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Speeding tickets are civil infractions. Finding a kid drinking underage and letting them go with a warning is different than someone calling the police to press charges because a teen came into their home and stole their alcohol. The difference is another person is involved—the victim. If the person tells the police they want to press charges, the police officer’s hands are tied. If a retail business calls the police and says they want to press charges, the police have to take the report and follow the procedure.

I can tell you firsthand that we do try to dissuade people from doing this because it is a lot of paperwork and hassle, and because most people don’t actually want justice, especially in situations like a teen stealing alcohol from a residence, they just want to make that person’s life difficult while not having it affect them, but it doesn’t work that way. We explain that they WILL have to show up to subsequent court proceedings if they choose to go forward with pressing charges. Sometimes they back down, sometimes they don’t. But retail conglomerates have lawyers of their own and the time and money to proceed, and it is their right.

With that said, I think these managers are complete jerks and deserve to be called out. But as far as whether or not the police officer in this situation could have just walked away? No, he couldn’t, and you shouldn’t want him to. The third party victim changes everything, and the officer’s hands are tied.

There is absolutely zero procedural need for an officer to place cuffs on and book a non-violent subject for ALLEGEDLY $100 worth of chicken tenders and fruit cups over two months time. For such a petty larceny the officer can issue him a paper misdemeanor civil infraction or summons and offer to drive him home. The cop was complicit in this evil and demoralizing scheme.

It depends on the jurisdiction but some department procedures require cuffing anyone who will be placed in a police car. This is the case in my jurisdiction. In my jurisdiction, we also aren’t allowed to drive people home if they live outside of our city. I don’t know the specifics of this case and I also can’t speak on what the penal codes are in Ohio or the departmental procedures in this city. But clearly the manager knows he waited long enough for the crime to be deemed arrest-able, and that’a what the police did.

Okay. Issue him a paper misdemeanor and let him walk home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

Police and sheriffs have discretion to enforce or not enforce anything they want. You’ve never gotten a warning for speeding, expired plates, not having your insurance paperwork on you? Never had a party busted and the cops just make underage kids dump the booze out but don’t arrest and book anyone for underage intoxication and possession? You’re one of those bootlickers who thinks the police are just doing their jobs. No. This cop and his sergeant are paid $100,000+ each and this is a bullshit waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Speeding tickets are civil infractions. Finding a kid drinking underage and letting them go with a warning is different than someone calling the police to press charges because a teen came into their home and stole their alcohol. The difference is another person is involved—the victim. If the person tells the police they want to press charges, the police officer’s hands are tied. If a retail business calls the police and says they want to press charges, the police have to take the report and follow the procedure.

I can tell you firsthand that we do try to dissuade people from doing this because it is a lot of paperwork and hassle, and because most people don’t actually want justice, especially in situations like a teen stealing alcohol from a residence, they just want to make that person’s life difficult while not having it affect them, but it doesn’t work that way. We explain that they WILL have to show up to subsequent court proceedings if they choose to go forward with pressing charges. Sometimes they back down, sometimes they don’t. But retail conglomerates have lawyers of their own and the time and money to proceed, and it is their right.

With that said, I think these managers are complete jerks and deserve to be called out. But as far as whether or not the police officer in this situation could have just walked away? No, he couldn’t, and you shouldn’t want him to. The third party victim changes everything, and the officer’s hands are tied.

There is absolutely zero procedural need for an officer to place cuffs on and book a non-violent subject for ALLEGEDLY $100 worth of chicken tenders and fruit cups over two months time. For such a petty larceny the officer can issue him a paper misdemeanor civil infraction or summons and offer to drive him home. The cop was complicit in this evil and demoralizing scheme.

It depends on the jurisdiction but some department procedures require cuffing anyone who will be placed in a police car. This is the case in my jurisdiction. In my jurisdiction, we also aren’t allowed to drive people home if they live outside of our city. I don’t know the specifics of this case and I also can’t speak on what the penal codes are in Ohio or the departmental procedures in this city. But clearly the manager knows he waited long enough for the crime to be deemed arrest-able, and that’a what the police did.

Okay. Issue him a paper misdemeanor and let him walk home.

A crime was committed and he needs to be booked for the crime, fingerprinted, etc. I think you have a misunderstanding of what “arrested” means. He didn’t have transportation (said he walked) so they were taking him there to complete this process. A person with a misdemeanor warrant still has to show up to the police station and be booked, fingerprinted, photo taken. This man wasn’t going to jail, he was going to be booked and then drove back, as said in the body cam footage.

I think you’d really benefit from going on a police ride along. It’s a really great way to ask questions and get a better understanding of the system.

[Anonymous]

I wish I had a Meijer store in my area just to boycott them, total bs. I hope everyone starts a boycott.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

Police and sheriffs have discretion to enforce or not enforce anything they want. You’ve never gotten a warning for speeding, expired plates, not having your insurance paperwork on you? Never had a party busted and the cops just make underage kids dump the booze out but don’t arrest and book anyone for underage intoxication and possession? You’re one of those bootlickers who thinks the police are just doing their jobs. No. This cop and his sergeant are paid $100,000+ each and this is a bullshit waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Speeding tickets are civil infractions. Finding a kid drinking underage and letting them go with a warning is different than someone calling the police to press charges because a teen came into their home and stole their alcohol. The difference is another person is involved—the victim. If the person tells the police they want to press charges, the police officer’s hands are tied. If a retail business calls the police and says they want to press charges, the police have to take the report and follow the procedure.

I can tell you firsthand that we do try to dissuade people from doing this because it is a lot of paperwork and hassle, and because most people don’t actually want justice, especially in situations like a teen stealing alcohol from a residence, they just want to make that person’s life difficult while not having it affect them, but it doesn’t work that way. We explain that they WILL have to show up to subsequent court proceedings if they choose to go forward with pressing charges. Sometimes they back down, sometimes they don’t. But retail conglomerates have lawyers of their own and the time and money to proceed, and it is their right.

With that said, I think these managers are complete jerks and deserve to be called out. But as far as whether or not the police officer in this situation could have just walked away? No, he couldn’t, and you shouldn’t want him to. The third party victim changes everything, and the officer’s hands are tied.

There is absolutely zero procedural need for an officer to place cuffs on and book a non-violent subject for ALLEGEDLY $100 worth of chicken tenders and fruit cups over two months time. For such a petty larceny the officer can issue him a paper misdemeanor civil infraction or summons and offer to drive him home. The cop was complicit in this evil and demoralizing scheme.

It depends on the jurisdiction but some department procedures require cuffing anyone who will be placed in a police car. This is the case in my jurisdiction. In my jurisdiction, we also aren’t allowed to drive people home if they live outside of our city. I don’t know the specifics of this case and I also can’t speak on what the penal codes are in Ohio or the departmental procedures in this city. But clearly the manager knows he waited long enough for the crime to be deemed arrest-able, and that’a what the police did.

Okay. Issue him a paper misdemeanor and let him walk home.

Yeah, why didn't he get a ticket and walk home? Why the whole book him at the station?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The nepo baby Meijer heir whose billionaire daddy bought him a congress seat is on record defending all the PPP theft by his cronies.

The Meijer family are dark money right wing mega donors.

$800,000 wire transfer from Peter Meijer’s father to U.S. Chamber raises curtain on dark money
https://thehill.com/lobbying/4702908-us-chamber-800k-hank-meijer-supermarket-mogul-peter-meijer/

'Dark money' groups and the ultra wealthy made up the largest donors in Michigan politics for the 2024 election - no. 3 The Meijer Family
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/billionaires-dark-money-dominate-record-setting-michigan-election-spending

These are the Top 30 Corporate Donors to Senate Republicans
https://progressmichigan.org/2021/05/these-are-the-top-30-corporate-donors-to-senate-republicans/

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Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

Police and sheriffs have discretion to enforce or not enforce anything they want. You’ve never gotten a warning for speeding, expired plates, not having your insurance paperwork on you? Never had a party busted and the cops just make underage kids dump the booze out but don’t arrest and book anyone for underage intoxication and possession? You’re one of those bootlickers who thinks the police are just doing their jobs. No. This cop and his sergeant are paid $100,000+ each and this is a bullshit waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Speeding tickets are civil infractions. Finding a kid drinking underage and letting them go with a warning is different than someone calling the police to press charges because a teen came into their home and stole their alcohol. The difference is another person is involved—the victim. If the person tells the police they want to press charges, the police officer’s hands are tied. If a retail business calls the police and says they want to press charges, the police have to take the report and follow the procedure.

I can tell you firsthand that we do try to dissuade people from doing this because it is a lot of paperwork and hassle, and because most people don’t actually want justice, especially in situations like a teen stealing alcohol from a residence, they just want to make that person’s life difficult while not having it affect them, but it doesn’t work that way. We explain that they WILL have to show up to subsequent court proceedings if they choose to go forward with pressing charges. Sometimes they back down, sometimes they don’t. But retail conglomerates have lawyers of their own and the time and money to proceed, and it is their right.

With that said, I think these managers are complete jerks and deserve to be called out. But as far as whether or not the police officer in this situation could have just walked away? No, he couldn’t, and you shouldn’t want him to. The third party victim changes everything, and the officer’s hands are tied.

There is absolutely zero procedural need for an officer to place cuffs on and book a non-violent subject for ALLEGEDLY $100 worth of chicken tenders and fruit cups over two months time. For such a petty larceny the officer can issue him a paper misdemeanor civil infraction or summons and offer to drive him home. The cop was complicit in this evil and demoralizing scheme.

It depends on the jurisdiction but some department procedures require cuffing anyone who will be placed in a police car. This is the case in my jurisdiction. In my jurisdiction, we also aren’t allowed to drive people home if they live outside of our city. I don’t know the specifics of this case and I also can’t speak on what the penal codes are in Ohio or the departmental procedures in this city. But clearly the manager knows he waited long enough for the crime to be deemed arrest-able, and that’a what the police did.

Okay. Issue him a paper misdemeanor and let him walk home.

Yeah, why didn't he get a ticket and walk home? Why the whole book him at the station?

Because a third-party was involved who pressed charges and had enough evidence to prove the person committed the crime.

I think a lot of you are confused on how crimes change when a third party witness who wants to press charges is involved. If the witness/victim is pressing charges, the perpetrator has to be booked into the system. To do this, they must be arrested.

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Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

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Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

Police and sheriffs have discretion to enforce or not enforce anything they want. You’ve never gotten a warning for speeding, expired plates, not having your insurance paperwork on you? Never had a party busted and the cops just make underage kids dump the booze out but don’t arrest and book anyone for underage intoxication and possession? You’re one of those bootlickers who thinks the police are just doing their jobs. No. This cop and his sergeant are paid $100,000+ each and this is a bullshit waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Speeding tickets are civil infractions. Finding a kid drinking underage and letting them go with a warning is different than someone calling the police to press charges because a teen came into their home and stole their alcohol. The difference is another person is involved—the victim. If the person tells the police they want to press charges, the police officer’s hands are tied. If a retail business calls the police and says they want to press charges, the police have to take the report and follow the procedure.

I can tell you firsthand that we do try to dissuade people from doing this because it is a lot of paperwork and hassle, and because most people don’t actually want justice, especially in situations like a teen stealing alcohol from a residence, they just want to make that person’s life difficult while not having it affect them, but it doesn’t work that way. We explain that they WILL have to show up to subsequent court proceedings if they choose to go forward with pressing charges. Sometimes they back down, sometimes they don’t. But retail conglomerates have lawyers of their own and the time and money to proceed, and it is their right.

With that said, I think these managers are complete jerks and deserve to be called out. But as far as whether or not the police officer in this situation could have just walked away? No, he couldn’t, and you shouldn’t want him to. The third party victim changes everything, and the officer’s hands are tied.

There is absolutely zero procedural need for an officer to place cuffs on and book a non-violent subject for ALLEGEDLY $100 worth of chicken tenders and fruit cups over two months time. For such a petty larceny the officer can issue him a paper misdemeanor civil infraction or summons and offer to drive him home. The cop was complicit in this evil and demoralizing scheme.

It depends on the jurisdiction but some department procedures require cuffing anyone who will be placed in a police car. This is the case in my jurisdiction. In my jurisdiction, we also aren’t allowed to drive people home if they live outside of our city. I don’t know the specifics of this case and I also can’t speak on what the penal codes are in Ohio or the departmental procedures in this city. But clearly the manager knows he waited long enough for the crime to be deemed arrest-able, and that’a what the police did.

Okay. Issue him a paper misdemeanor and let him walk home.

Yeah, why didn't he get a ticket and walk home? Why the whole book him at the station?

Because store management receive de facto bonuses and promotions for this and the Meijer family wants to strike fear in all the peasants who work there seeing a colleague dehumanized and his life turned upside down for petty theft. And the police force and city hall's salary and fringe is paid by a Meijer store's income and property taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

Police and sheriffs have discretion to enforce or not enforce anything they want. You’ve never gotten a warning for speeding, expired plates, not having your insurance paperwork on you? Never had a party busted and the cops just make underage kids dump the booze out but don’t arrest and book anyone for underage intoxication and possession? You’re one of those bootlickers who thinks the police are just doing their jobs. No. This cop and his sergeant are paid $100,000+ each and this is a bullshit waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

Speeding tickets are civil infractions. Finding a kid drinking underage and letting them go with a warning is different than someone calling the police to press charges because a teen came into their home and stole their alcohol. The difference is another person is involved—the victim. If the person tells the police they want to press charges, the police officer’s hands are tied. If a retail business calls the police and says they want to press charges, the police have to take the report and follow the procedure.

I can tell you firsthand that we do try to dissuade people from doing this because it is a lot of paperwork and hassle, and because most people don’t actually want justice, especially in situations like a teen stealing alcohol from a residence, they just want to make that person’s life difficult while not having it affect them, but it doesn’t work that way. We explain that they WILL have to show up to subsequent court proceedings if they choose to go forward with pressing charges. Sometimes they back down, sometimes they don’t. But retail conglomerates have lawyers of their own and the time and money to proceed, and it is their right.

With that said, I think these managers are complete jerks and deserve to be called out. But as far as whether or not the police officer in this situation could have just walked away? No, he couldn’t, and you shouldn’t want him to. The third party victim changes everything, and the officer’s hands are tied.

There is absolutely zero procedural need for an officer to place cuffs on and book a non-violent subject for ALLEGEDLY $100 worth of chicken tenders and fruit cups over two months time. For such a petty larceny the officer can issue him a paper misdemeanor civil infraction or summons and offer to drive him home. The cop was complicit in this evil and demoralizing scheme.

It depends on the jurisdiction but some department procedures require cuffing anyone who will be placed in a police car. This is the case in my jurisdiction. In my jurisdiction, we also aren’t allowed to drive people home if they live outside of our city. I don’t know the specifics of this case and I also can’t speak on what the penal codes are in Ohio or the departmental procedures in this city. But clearly the manager knows he waited long enough for the crime to be deemed arrest-able, and that’a what the police did.

Okay. Issue him a paper misdemeanor and let him walk home.

Yeah, why didn't he get a ticket and walk home? Why the whole book him at the station?

Because store management receive de facto bonuses and promotions for this and the Meijer family wants to strike fear in all the peasants who work there seeing a colleague dehumanized and his life turned upside down for petty theft. And the police force and city hall's salary and fringe is paid by a Meijer store's income and property taxes.

I don’t disagree with your sentiments on the Meijer manager, but you’re really reaching. We would arrest the same way if the person stole from a mom and pop store. (City council does love to stroke these big taxpayers’ junk, though, that’s no lie. But they don’t charm us (the police.))

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Is the Meijer family not stealing from the state and federal government when most of their employees qualify for welfare because they're paid peanuts and/or their hours are purposely limited to prevent full-time, overtime, and fringe benefits? That's a bit more sophisticated than a teen deli worker munching on chicken tendies and fruit cups for lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:America is so done. It's completely lost its soul. Being casually cruel is just accepted and defended every day, all around us. Anybody who doesn't think we're well on our way to Nazi Germany is kidding themselves. Read a history book and you'll see that everything happening now is straight out of that playbook.

Perhaps you should read a history book — and learn about the ways that Nazi Germany used the US as a model. This actually is a part of the “soul” of America. The only difference here is that you can relate to this particular teen.
I hope the manager gets permanently shunned by whatever communities he’s a part of.