Not sure about that. There are a lot of lawyers around and all are criminal and most are developmentally disabled.
Curmudgeon Tire worker caught picking fight with Indigenous customer
- Thread starter mentalfloss
- Start date
Not sure about that. There are a lot of lawyers around and all are criminal and most are developmentally disabled.
Well Trudeau had better get off his ass and fix that, he promised gender equality here and after all it is 2017.
If a floor walker should be granted some leniency, wouldn't a street walker deserve the same?
Did you hear racial slurs? Maybe I need to listen to the video again because I didn't hear any.
Family says Indigenous elder humiliated at Canadian Tire store
Canadian Press
More from Canadian Press
Published:
December 21, 2017
Updated:
December 21, 2017 7:42 PM EST
Gordon Albert, an elder from the Sweetgrass First Nation in Saskatchewan, is shown in a family handout photo.HO / THE CANADIAN PRESS
NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — A First Nations elder says he was humiliated when an employee searched him at a Canadian Tire store in Saskatchewan earlier this week.
“They really, really embarrassed us,” said Gordon Albert, 78, of the Sweetgrass First Nation Thursday. “They thought that since we’re native we’d steal something.”
Albert was in North Battleford shopping for a gift with his wife Marlene and son Deryk on Monday, but they didn’t find what they were looking for.
The anti-theft sensor by the door beeped as they left and an employee stopped them and asked him to take off his coat, his wife said.
“That lady took his cigarettes out, took his phone out. She was just going through his pockets,” she said. “He said, ‘What else do you want me to take off? My clothes?”’
The employee never explicitly accused her husband of stealing, but the encounter was upsetting, she said.
The couple have been driving buses on the Sweetgrass reserve and in town for decades and are well known for their work with the local minor hockey team, she said.
They go to Canadian Tire often to shop for gardening supplies or things for their vehicle and have never had an experience like this.
Gordon Albert said the suggestion that he would steal makes no sense.
“I make enough money that I can buy whatever I want. I don’t have to go that route,” he said.
Canadian Tire said in a statement that staff asked to inspect Albert’s belongings, as they normally would when an alarm goes off.
They determined that the sensor was triggered by something they had bought elsewhere.
“Recent conversations between the store and Mr. Albert and his family have been positive and productive, and the store considered the matter to have been resolved,” the company said.
Albert said the store manager called to apologize the next day.
“He said ‘Sorry, sorry sorry.’ I said ‘That’s not going to help,”’ he said.
He said he told the manager that Canadian Tire had been one of his favourite stores in North Battleford.
Albert said he won’t shop there again.
But he said he can also understand why the store would want to crack down on theft.
Deryk Albert said he got a call from the manager, too.
“He said, ‘It wasn’t a race thing’ and I said, ‘It was a race thing,”’ he said.
It was embarrassing to have everyone in the store looking at them, he said.
“It just offended me … I was pretty upset all that day.”
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan, said the retail industry needs a wake-up call.
“The family is still considering their options, but at the very least, I am recommending that they file a human rights complaint,” said Chief Bobby Cameron.
Gordon Albert said he’s not keen on doing that.
“I’m kind of forgetting about it,” he said. “Why cry over spilled milk?”
Family says Indigenous elder humiliated at Canadian Tire store | Toronto Sun
Canadian Press
More from Canadian Press
Published:
December 21, 2017
Updated:
December 21, 2017 7:42 PM EST
Gordon Albert, an elder from the Sweetgrass First Nation in Saskatchewan, is shown in a family handout photo.HO / THE CANADIAN PRESS
NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — A First Nations elder says he was humiliated when an employee searched him at a Canadian Tire store in Saskatchewan earlier this week.
“They really, really embarrassed us,” said Gordon Albert, 78, of the Sweetgrass First Nation Thursday. “They thought that since we’re native we’d steal something.”
Albert was in North Battleford shopping for a gift with his wife Marlene and son Deryk on Monday, but they didn’t find what they were looking for.
The anti-theft sensor by the door beeped as they left and an employee stopped them and asked him to take off his coat, his wife said.
“That lady took his cigarettes out, took his phone out. She was just going through his pockets,” she said. “He said, ‘What else do you want me to take off? My clothes?”’
The employee never explicitly accused her husband of stealing, but the encounter was upsetting, she said.
The couple have been driving buses on the Sweetgrass reserve and in town for decades and are well known for their work with the local minor hockey team, she said.
They go to Canadian Tire often to shop for gardening supplies or things for their vehicle and have never had an experience like this.
Gordon Albert said the suggestion that he would steal makes no sense.
“I make enough money that I can buy whatever I want. I don’t have to go that route,” he said.
Canadian Tire said in a statement that staff asked to inspect Albert’s belongings, as they normally would when an alarm goes off.
They determined that the sensor was triggered by something they had bought elsewhere.
“Recent conversations between the store and Mr. Albert and his family have been positive and productive, and the store considered the matter to have been resolved,” the company said.
Albert said the store manager called to apologize the next day.
“He said ‘Sorry, sorry sorry.’ I said ‘That’s not going to help,”’ he said.
He said he told the manager that Canadian Tire had been one of his favourite stores in North Battleford.
Albert said he won’t shop there again.
But he said he can also understand why the store would want to crack down on theft.
Deryk Albert said he got a call from the manager, too.
“He said, ‘It wasn’t a race thing’ and I said, ‘It was a race thing,”’ he said.
It was embarrassing to have everyone in the store looking at them, he said.
“It just offended me … I was pretty upset all that day.”
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan, said the retail industry needs a wake-up call.
“The family is still considering their options, but at the very least, I am recommending that they file a human rights complaint,” said Chief Bobby Cameron.
Gordon Albert said he’s not keen on doing that.
“I’m kind of forgetting about it,” he said. “Why cry over spilled milk?”
Family says Indigenous elder humiliated at Canadian Tire store | Toronto Sun
True, however "alarm goes off in Canadian Tire" doesn't make much of a headline, and most definitely has no effect on triggering racial anger and advancing post-modern agenda.
If the native guy wasn't stealing, then the guy who muscled him is a dick and deserved to get fired.
It's not really a left or right issue, it's common sense.
People in this place could turn a ripe tomato plant into a right or left issue.
Sheesh!
It's not really a left or right issue, it's common sense.
People in this place could turn a ripe tomato plant into a right or left issue.
Sheesh!
Oh, well then a chick and no muscling.
But I've walked through many alarms in stores and no one tried to throw me out or in.
I wonder why?
When I worked retail at one famous Vancouver area store the alarm always went off and nobody but nobody did anything.Oh, well then a chick and no muscling.
But I've walked through many alarms in stores and no one tried to throw me out or in.
I wonder why?
OK well that's not exactly true the sort-of-manager (it was that kind of a place) tried chasing someone who'd grabbed a barometer off the wall-cornered him somewhere in the neighbourhood which was mostly light industry-the thief turned on him and pulled a knife!!
Is it worth losing your life over a piece of clockwork the sold for less than $100?
This was the same idiot 'manager' who only made $2 more an hour than me yet worked three times harder!
LOL!
Retail jobs suck and anyone with any brains never ever puts themself out for the store.
it is my understanding that they found something from another store that set off the alarm. they should be thankful that it was found. can you imagine the humiliation from setting off alarms in every store for months on end because no one ever stopped you and helped you find the item?
I actually owned an item like that on a raincoat purchased from the same store where I worked it set off alarms everywhere.
Finally after an exhaustive search lasting weeks I found the chip/trigger/callitwhatyouwill stapled underneath the tag on the nape of the neck it was practically invisible.
That being said while it was maddening I was in no way humiliated and clerks would just motion me to keep moving when alarms went off must have been my honest face/demure manner.
Ummmm...
The Rights Of Store Owners In Cases Of Suspected Shoplifting
Store owners should have reasonable and probable grounds before they accuse anybody of doing anything, whether it’s stealing a chocolate bar or stealing something much more significant.
What rights do store owners have?
The store owners or private security people can make a Citizen’s Arrest. They have no greater or lesser authority than a private individual or a Peace Officer, which is what the Criminal Code defines as police officers. They cannot breach the individual’s rights because technically when they are investigating a crime they are doing so as an Agent of the State and ultimately will be judged in that regard.
Can the store owner search someone suspected of shoplifting?
The store owner or an employee of the store owner must abide by the law when investigating a criminal offense. That means that an individual is protected by the Charter of Rights and is not vulnerable or susceptible to unreasonable search or seizure.
The Rights Of Store Owners In Cases Of Suspected Shoplifting | Lawyershop
The Rights Of Store Owners In Cases Of Suspected Shoplifting
Store owners should have reasonable and probable grounds before they accuse anybody of doing anything, whether it’s stealing a chocolate bar or stealing something much more significant.
What rights do store owners have?
The store owners or private security people can make a Citizen’s Arrest. They have no greater or lesser authority than a private individual or a Peace Officer, which is what the Criminal Code defines as police officers. They cannot breach the individual’s rights because technically when they are investigating a crime they are doing so as an Agent of the State and ultimately will be judged in that regard.
Can the store owner search someone suspected of shoplifting?
The store owner or an employee of the store owner must abide by the law when investigating a criminal offense. That means that an individual is protected by the Charter of Rights and is not vulnerable or susceptible to unreasonable search or seizure.
The Rights Of Store Owners In Cases Of Suspected Shoplifting | Lawyershop
The guy working in the store has possibly committed criminal assault if he even touched the old man in any way while he was shaking him down. There is no allowance under any circumstances to treat other people like shit.