Boo-friggin-hoo. Criminals should be publicly humiliated.
High 5 to you Colonial.
I do not believe the police would have been on hand had security not called them for a problem other then shoplifting.
What ever, as no Mall cops were with the police just the 2 cops and the woman in handcuffs, something was or had to have be going on.
Perhaps the mall had a policy that did not allow the private security to interfear with a thief, just keep taping them follow them from store to store and station someone in the parking lots to get the license number of the thief if they left before the cops arrived.
We have all read at one time or another of an employee of a store get fired when they chased after a thief out the door.
If the arrest was a mistake then the mall itself will not face a law suit, as in the case of my moms friend that went to a upscale department store and bought a 3-4 hundred dollar jacket. She at the time was well into her 70's and quite deaf. The clerk forgot to remove the security tag and as she exited the store the buzzer went off and 2 young plain closed security yelled at her to stop----She just kept going out the door. The guards in t shirts and ball caps grabbed her and she thought she was being robbed. She fought for her life the spunkey 110 pound woman, bit one so hard her dentures cracked and was thrown to the ground so hard that she cracked a few bones, broke her glasses and her poor husband waiting outside the door-- came to her rescue, he in late 80's swing his walker over his head at the two men wrestling with his wife on the floor.
It had to have been one hell of a mess as the woman and husband owned one of the largest Fuel oil and heating business in 2 states. Filled Pools and drained septic tanks.
Later much later the old lady drove to my moms home and took Mom out for a ride in her Brand New Car, Mom asked her where she had gotten a sports car and at her age why.
Old lads told her that bones break and heal, glasses and teeth can be replaced but the absolute horror of the moment was enough to have the store buy her a car. Any car she wished and they never expected to buy her a Corvette.
BTW the young men that tackled her had never been properly trained as security and--Believe it or not--- They called her to check on their welfare so often the husband hired them to work in the Honey Waggon section of his business. Both were happy as---pardon the pun--happy as shit as the pay was twice that of being a security guard.
