Whether the store decides to fire the employee or not doesn't change the fact a citizen who observes a crime being committed can make a citizen's arrest.
Amusing video, does he work there?
What's the point of having security guards or whatever they are called if they can do nothing
She deserves arrest and pepper sprayed etc... (just for the fact that she probably voted for Hillary alone), however it is ILLEGAL for a store employee to detain someone like that.
I'm currently a security guard for a mall.
If it's not your store, why even botherGet shot or stabbed over a candy bar
Didn't think a male officer is allowed hand search females
Wrong again. The only crime that was witnessed was the store employee assaulting the lady.
So they can be called as a witness if the police make an arrest. They can get license plates, try to ID someone so they can provide info to police, but thats about it in most cases. Different stores have different policies and Rite Aid really has no policy. That employee is fucked.
If this happened in Mother Russia, bitch would be slapped by the manager and then spanked by officer Danko.America needs less lawyers and more judge Dredd's
Fuck me running. HE has legal authority if HE indeed witnessed a crime being committed.
Oddly enough a regular citizen has more authority to intervene and make a citizens arrest than the employee does.
that wasn't "detain" that was "restrain", you can detain someone all you like, when someone is being detained they are free to leave at any time, its just some don't know that and stay just because the guard is talking to them.
This also happened in Oregon where the video in this thread took place. Manager fired from Gresham Rite Aid for grabbing shoplifter's bag http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2015/04/manager_fired_from_gresham_rit.htmlAccording to the lawsuit, Sartwell and the store manager saw a woman stuff some items in a bag, then walk past the register and security towers toward the doors without paying. Sartwell grabbed the woman's bag and told the woman to give up the goods, but the woman responded by pushing Sartwell twice in the chest, the suit states."Plaintiff moved the shoplifter from the door to the register and instructed the cashier Cassandra to call the police," the suit says. "The shoplifter then pulled a switchblade knife on Plaintiff, so Plaintiff let go of the bag and the shoplifter left the store with defendants' merchandise."The suit says Sartwell and the cashier followed the woman outside and snapped photos of the car she got in and its license plates.Six days later, Sartwell was fired -- in part for telling the cashier to call police, then talking to them after they arrived, her suit states.
