A video of a Dollar General employee pursuing an alleged shoplifter with her car and then hitting him in the driveway of a home is catching a lot of attention and reaction online, gaining more than 12 million views on Twitter in two days.
It’s unclear in what city or on what date the video was taken, but Newsweek cited another Twitter page stating the incident happened on May 11 somewhere in California, although those details are unconfirmed.
Ring video from someone’s home shows a white SUV slamming into a man on a bicycle who was carrying several goods. The man fell off his bike, spilling the items across a homeowner’s driveway. A female Dollar General worker exits the car, and the two begin cursing at one another with the employee accusing the man of stealing from the store.
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The employee gets out of the car to confront the man, asking “Who the f*** you think you are stealing s*** from my store?”
She pelts his bicycle off to the side before the two begin arguing while picking up the items that were spilled on the driveway.
“You don’t live the f***ing life I live,” the alleged thief says. The woman responds by saying that she lives in her car.
The woman characterizes the man as a repeat offender, mentioning at least one other occasion where he has stolen from the store.
“Who cares? Everybody steals from you [expletive] all the time. If it was your people, you wouldn’t be trippin’,” the man says.
In the video, the woman appears to be white, while the man is Black. The argument never escalated into a physical altercation.
After the woman retrieves some of the items, she returns to her car and drives away. The man was also able to pick up some of the other items.
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