A supermarket employee says he is devastated over his firing after filming a shoplifter walking out with stolen goods, as the NY Post reports. The problem is, this employee was told to film the perpetrator by his boss.
Santino Burralo was a supermarket employee in Colorado. In 2022, Democratic Governor Jared Polis decided to make stealing anything under $2000 a simple misdemeanor. The District Attorney in Pueblo directly blamed Polis’s new law for a spike in retail theft in the county. He wants to prosecute shoplifting as a felony, but has no power to do so now that the state government has overruled him:
Burralo followed two men as they stole $500 worth of laundry detergent, while filming. The video is a fun one as the thieves put tinfoil over their license plate. Luckily, with one easy flip of the wrist, Burralo was also to tear off the tinfoil and reveal the plate numbers:
No arrest was made but the employee made sure to get the plate numbers for identification purposes. Had he not done that, the shoplifters would have gone away scott-free.
Burralo was suspended the next day. Then after a week in purgatory, he got fired. “I was given a direct order by the third person in charge to get the license plate, and my initial reaction was to record. You know, better evidence, to get their faces, description of the vehicle and the license plate number,” Burralo said.
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An associate for Kroger’s, which owns the market that hosted the scene of the crime, seemed to shrug their shoulders. “We have security measures in place to help prevent crime and de-escalate such confrontations to minimize the risk to our associates.” But here’s the snag — Burralo didn’t put his hands on anyone. There’s a policy in place saying thieves can’t be chased and Burralo wasn’t chasing anyone. He was simply following the thieves and filming them.
The officer who later apprehended the thieves was thankful fore Burralo’s quick thinking. He even backed him up in a Fox News interview. “His video to us immensely helped this investigation. I was able, with other detectives … able to put the driver in custody, in jail within 24 hours,”
If you’re feeling some sympathy for the young man, you’ll be delighted to know that he has a GoFundMe. It’s already raised $26,000, most likely so he can hire an ace legal team for a pretty slam-dunk lawsuit. Glad he’s not going down without a fight.
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