(Headline USA) A California convenience store owner is reportedly under investigation after he apprehended and beat a shoplifter who tried to get away with thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise.
Video footage of the incident shows the owner, a Sikh man, and another store employee confronted a thief who entered the store with a 20-gallon trash can and began filling it with fistfuls of tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars and vapes.
At first, employees begged the thief to stop — until the thief tried to push past one of them and ordered everyone to move out of his way.
One employee quickly tackled the thief to the floor and the convenience store owner began hitting the thief with what appears to be a broomstick.
“That’s called whoopin’ your a**! Whoop his a**! Get him!” a bystander said, before asking the thief if he was ready to give up the heist.
“Yeah, I’m done!” the robber admitted. “I’m going to go.”
The employees then ordered the thief not to come back to his store or try stealing again, prompting the thief to ask if he could get a free soda on his way out.
“What kind of **t you telling me? You do this **t and you want a soda? No, no, no. Get the f**k out, man,” the bystander told him.
The convenience store owner later revealed that the thief had stolen from his business at least two other times and had threatened the safety of his employees.
Now, the two convenience store employees who stopped the thief are under investigation for assault, according to local reports. It will be up to the district attorney to determine whether to file charges against them.
Conservatives pointed out that average citizens are going to begin to take the law into their own hands more and more frequently, if leftist policymakers continue to refuse to punish criminals.
“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,” argued RedState’s Bonchie. “Until that happens, we are going to see a lot more of what we saw in that video.”
