Maybe I am just different, but people standing in front of a store asking for something does not bother me, and I would never complain nor refuse to shop there anymore. Just walk on by, not a hill to die on.
If my store was a smoke shop, perhaps I would be upset, yet come to regret calling the police knowing someone would die, albeit he committed suicide because he REFUSED to obey order and got the ultimate Aztec kicking.
As has been said by other Freepers, it is the City Officials who are ultimately to blame with that outrageous Cig Tax.
I will never understand the NOT obeying a Police Order, never.
That was one huge man do we know if he was “asking” or intimidating people to buy cigarettes? As a woman I find his size intimidating. If police try to arrest someone prudence would say don't resist.