Posted on 06/16/2021 9:21:38 AM PDT by lowbridge
"CBS This Morning" co-host Tony Dokoupil gave a perplexing excuse Wednesday for a man seen in a viral video stealing multiple items at a San Francisco Walgreens before exiting the store on a bicycle.
Dokoupil claimed the man was probably getting something he needed and suggested that nothing should have been done to stop the crime as it was taking place.
"So crime is never justified of course," Dokoupil said after CBS' Vlad Duthiers played the video of the theft. He was interrupted by co-host Anthony Mason, saying, "I will say that I think they could have made a little better effort to stop that bicycle. I mean you could have disrupted that bike."
"Well, I mean, I don't know," Dokoupil said, appearing to question the need to stop the shoplifter. "You don't need to be a hero over some toothbrushes or whatever it is."
All of Dokoupil's co-hosts suggested various ways the perpetrator could have been stopped by the security personnel witnessing the crime being committed. Dokoupil, however, seemed to be the only one willing to excuse the theft.
"That reads also as an act of desperation. I mean, you're not getting rich off what you take from a Walgreens, you're getting probably something you need. I don't know the details of that particular case," he said.
"I mean, a bag full? They looked like hair products … which are valuable, and he's filling his bag full of them," Duthiers said.
Co-host Adriana Diaz confirmed that the stolen products were indeed hair products.
"Now try lifting items from your local CBS station … since they're supportive," Newsbusters executive editor Tim Graham tweeted in response.
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Lol. News anchors are amoral criminal scum. Of course they see nothing wrong with theft.
And when Walgreens shuts the store down they will be called racist.
WE all need Tony Dokoupil’s address so we can all go there and get stuff we “need”.
Stealing is stealing.
Condoning crimes is almost as bad as committing them.
I hope the anchor does not mind if needy folks clean out his house...
Good post.
What he ‘needs’ is an orange jumpsuit and hand cuffs.................
All part of the “make cities unliveable hellholes” agenda. What’s not clear to me is WHY?? This is insane...so I guess I can go steal whatever I want now? No more wasting money at the drugstore?
When these people riot, they smash and steal from shoe stores -- but they don't take work boots. They don't need work boots.
I can’t afford an electric bike.
Where does this idiot live?
I need a few things.
Just what I was thinking.
Next time, take the reporter’s wallet.
There is no moral distinction to be made.
There is a lot of stuff in Walgreens someone might need. Why not just give it away to whomever needs it? The CBS guy makes it sounds as if the thief was broke and had bad breath and rotten teeth because he couldn’t afford a toothbrush. Maybe he wasn’t broke and could have paid for it and but didn’t feel like it. Why not extend that privilege to me, too?
Progressivism breeds entitled scum.
Just another brainless Leftist media douchebag.
The two blacks on the set seemed to understand it wasn’t an act of desperation and opined on it.
In addition to sending the needy to Tony Dokoupil's house, it's time to use licensed and copyrighted items from CBS/Viacom to give money to the needy.
The guy was just getting some gifts for his Juneteenth celebration
Too bad they didn’t break into this idiot’s vehicle and loot it for everything in it. I’m sure there is something in there they’d need...
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