Hey don't blame me - I'll put my 40 year voting record in this damn state up against the reddest neck in the reddest state you care to name.
@skeeter I once worked as a security guard in Denver. Mostly bodyguard work,but sometimes I got called in to fill in for someone who had a regular "spot" who had called in sick.
I once got called in to work security at a chain grocery store in the "black section" of town. The store manager and everybody else that worked there was black. The store manager took one look at me,and told me to stay behind the one-way glass in the meat counter section and observe,but to NOT try to arrest anyone for anything less than assault or robbery. He said that if I tried to arrest anyone for shoplifting,he,the store,and I would all get sued,and the perp would have witnesses ready to testify the person arrested had "not done anything. He was just minding his own business when the security guard attacked him for no reason at all!". Sometimes they will even have friends testify that "They will have "witnesses" willing to testify in court that they didn't steal anything,and that they saw you planting the goods on the suspect."
He also said that he had been shot at twice after closing the store at night,and a lot of timAes he made a call to the DPD to have a squad car come by at closing time so he could walk to his car without being attacked.
He then told me HE had been shot at twice that year while leaving the store at closing time,and that more than once he had called the DPD to request a squad car at closing time due to threats. He was pretty much a nervous wreck,and I doubt he stayed there much longer.
All night I watched parents AND their chill-runs walking down the aisles,just taking stuff off the shelves and eating it as they shopped. Just like there was nothing wrong with it and it wasn't stealing.
And some people STILL wonder why grocery prices are higher in the "Get-Toe" than the more upscale neighborhoods.
