Taking matters into their own hands. (Credit: Joel Fischer/Twitter)
Posted on 08/06/2023 6:45:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Taking matters into their own hands. (Credit: Joel Fischer/Twitter)
As RedState reported, a Sikh convenience store owner turned the tables on a shoplifter as he attempted to get away with thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise.
The viral scene unfolded in California, showing a man shoveling entire shelves worth of tobacco and other products into a trash can while taunting the owner with proclamations that “there’s nothing you can do.” The shoplifter quickly learned that wasn’t true, though, as he was tackled to the ground and beaten with a rod.
Sikh grocery store owner was told that "there ain't nothing you can do" repeatedly and that "ayy, just let him go" as they were being robbed. The Sikhs disagreed. pic.twitter.com/ZIb5CVLMNl
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 2, 2023
Apparently, while many California cities have no desire to actually enforce the laws against people who steal from business owners and put them in financial peril, they are interested in enforcing battery laws involving the protection of said businesses. According to a new report, the Sikh man is now facing criminal charges as local police investigate the incident.
Clown world.
The Sikh convenience store clerk who beat the piss out of a shoplifter with a stick in is under investigation from Stockton, California police for assault.
The clerks also said the same man stole from their store two other times.
pic.twitter.com/ZueivvTZEC— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 6, 2023
Some are making the argument that the force used on the shoplifter in the video was excessive, and as a purely legal matter, that may be true. The shoplifter was begging for mercy while the store owner continued to swing back and strike him. The question is at what point the store owner is expected to disengage, and he likely passed that point.
Still, I think that argument misses the broader point of what normally law-abiding citizens are dealing with and what the ultimate consequences are of refusing to enforce the law against criminal vagrants. These business owners (and also just people walking down the street) are being ignored by local police and prosecutors as they are harassed, assaulted, and stolen from. It was just a matter of time before someone reached their breaking point and lashed out.
That’s really the story here, as far as I’m concerned. We can argue the finer points of the law all day and at what point self-defense turns into aggression. But what would solve all these problems and avoid scenes like those in that video is having local jurisdictions and state governments that are willing to put shoplifters and other common criminals behind bars so they can’t continue to terrorize people. Until that happens, we are going to see a lot more of what we saw in that video.
Justice... American style!
We’ve become a sewer.
Sikhs are the good guys.
The police can’t/will not protect you and you are not allowed to protect yourself. This is madness. It is intended to be madness. People who support this are not that stupid by accident.
you are not allowed to obstruct diy reparations
They are part of the stealing thug's "gang".
Just like the prosecutors who went after Kyle Rittenhouse were part of the Antifa gang in that riot.
FTTW
Anonymously beating the crap out of a few politicians, prosecutors, judges and police chiefs for not enforcing the laws might get some results.
The robber had a knife which he brandished at the beginning of the video.
The robber got less than he deserved. And the robber was never arrested.
To Hell with the California government. They protect criminals and prosecute their victims.
Interesting that it is a 7-11 directly across the street from the Stockton Police Dept!
Libs only care about the criminals, their voters.
Even if the local police were to leave this Seek alone, police at higher levels, maybe even up to the FBI, would step in and throw him in jail.
He should have destroyed the recordings (assuming that was possible).
If the guy gets off maybe we will see more and more videos like this and people will really start to fight back.
Go for the jury trial…that’s what I would do.
*** If the perp tried that in some places I can think of they’d never find his body. **
Where? Fargo?
The FBI wouldn’t get involved in this .
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The FBI wouldn’t get involved in this .
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democrat party government is the enemy.
Is anyone here surprised?
Any decent judge would simply dismiss the case. You know that won’t happen. The entire justice system has been turned upside down, from the cops to the prosecutors to the judges. I’m sure it only gets better when the prison guards take over when the innocent are sent to jail.
From what I had read, he had a plastic handgun in his pocket that was smashed to pieces during the beatdown.
Did they find the “victim”?
They’ll need him to testify...
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