If those on here condemning this woman would read the whole story they’d be a little more understanding. She’s on welfare and was several days away from getting her check. It gives the amount of welfare and it ain’t much. They’d been out of food for 3 days. She went to the store with $1.25 to buy eggs but they cost more than that. So, she put 5 eggs into her pocket. They broke. And employee saw her take the eggs and asked her if she had taken them and the woman told the truth.
So, if she had gone to jail I guess it would have for breaking store merchandise. But can you imagine how defeated she felt when she tried to steal 5 eggs to feed the kids in her charge and they broke? God help these people.
The cop showed mercy and that was admirable.
Went through the Fed snap calculator for AL, got the same results:
http://www.snap-step1.usda.gov/fns/