On May 7th, 2023, in Savannah, Georgia, officers were dispatched to a Walmart store in response to a reported shoplifting incident. >> You got your ID, honey, ma'am? Your ID? >> Why am I going to jail? >> You have video? Do me a favor. Take your phone out. >> Huh? >> Take your phone out. >> My phone right here. >> Yeah, set it down. >> For what? >> Cuz I said so. >> Bro. >> Ain't walking off. >> BRO, GET OFF OF ME, BRO. BRO, GET OFF OF ME. >> 46, I NEED YOU TO ADVISE IF YOU GOT ONE RUNNING. >> BRO, GET OFF OF ME. BRO, GET OFF OF ME. BRO, GET OFF OF ME. >> PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK NOW. >> NO. >> DO you want your taser? >> Can you get off of me? I can't breathe, officer. I got asthma. Can I turn over? >> Stay right there. Don't you move. Stay right there. >> Bro, GET OFF OF ME. >> PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK. >> CAN I GET UP? >> NO. PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK NOW. Put your hands behind your back. >> My hand is behind my back. >> hand. You also be getting a bill for my pants. >> Get what? I'm going to get what? >> A bill for my pants. >> A I'm not getting no bill for your pants. >> Yes, you are. >> No, I'm not. Okay, you get me up? >> Can I get a supervisor? I need EMS for these cuffs. >> I don't need no EMS. >> Doesn't Doesn't matter. >> I don't need EMS. Now, can you get me off the [ __ ] ground? >> Sir, hurts? >> Yeah. >> Roll on your side. Actually, hold on. Let me fix them cuffs so they don't get any tighter. >> This one is tight. >> I know. Use the force, ma'am. >> What? >> Use the force. >> What is that? >> Me throwing you on the ground. >> You didn't throw me on the ground. >> The ground. >> I'm getting out of the car, sir. >> Can you roll over on your side? >> being rolled over on my side. >> Now sit on your butt. There you go. >> For what? He pulled my shirt down. >> Car 29, having 42, 44, 49. >> Cuz you decided to run, so I had to take you to the ground. >> 46. >> I fell on the ground. We got a feeling you're going to get searched. >> Who will be the one to search me, sir? >> I said a female unit. >> What you searching me for? I got nothing on me. >> You're under arrest. >> For what? >> You get searched. Obstruction. Um, shoplifting, I guess. It's the reason we're here. >> Well, can I get in the car, sir? Pull my shirt down or something. Damn, people out here recording and stuff. >> You should have made a better choice. >> No, the person who was with me should have made a better choice. >> Where is she at? >> Cuz she hauled ass and left me in the store with her damn grown child. What? What you say? >> You want to tell us her name? >> Pull my shirt down. >> What is your friend's name? >> Her name is Brittany. He ran in the CAR TO HIS MAMA. >> He didn't hurt her. She fell by herself. We we were right there, right in that first parking space right there. And he kept telling he she was a little bit much to handle, right? I mean, she was >> Oh, I threw her to the ground. I got to do >> I know I know but he was he didn't hurt >> He did exactly what he was supposed to do. >> Yeah, yeah. So, I'm telling you my dad was a police officer for years growing up in this apartment. I don't live here anymore. >> Would you mind being a witness to that incident? >> Yeah, I'll be Sure, just give me a um Oh, so are they bringing all this stuff right now? >> No, all that's paperwork. That's all the stuff she had. >> clothes actually >> Yeah, we already got the stuff that she had taken. You can try this stuff on. By the way, my name is Alex. >> Jared, nice to meet you. >> Nice to meet you, Jared. Mr. Jared. >> So, what did she actually steal? >> Um, of the clothes, some of the clothes. >> Okay. >> So this is what she actually purchased? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. And now they're bringing up what she took? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> Do you have any information so I can go ahead and get a warrant? >> Where's your baby? >> She at the house. She 3 months old and this is [ __ ] up cuz she this is her doing and she you ran and you left me. Now you got your child. That [ __ ] [ __ ] up cuz I paid for all my [ __ ] stuff. >> So you didn't shoplift? >> NO, THAT WAS HER STUFF. >> AND WHY why did you run? >> Cuz I ain't knew y'all was going to take me to jail for her stuff and my baby is at the house with my child and she 3 months old and she hauled ass and you left. Then you left your SON IN THE STORE. Cuz the son was walking out stealing a bicycle. That's [ __ ] up. >> We're looking at the videos to see what exactly your involvement was. >> She was in the store with me and then when I turned around she was gone cuz I paid for my stuff and I told her that she needed to send money for her stuff. >> Okay. Um let me move my car and then we call your mom. >> Okay. >> I didn't realize you had a baby. >> Okay. >> So this is everything in there she paid for? >> Yeah, this is her receipt that she the stuff that she paid. Most of it's food and I know she had her EBT card so she had scanned. I've seen her scanning the food. That's why I was like she ain't going to scan them clothes. She like scanned a couple and then throw hell of them in the bag. >> Yeah, I mean I saw that she had a pile like that on the All this for $118. >> Nice side of video. >> Hey, what's going on? It's not Walmart. >> Sir? >> Yeah. >> You know I heard it all. >> No. >> No? >> Uh-uh. >> I thought I heard it >> I thought I heard Walmart. >> Okay. >> That's at a Dollar General. >> What she did was scanning items, buying food with her EBT card and she would put a stack of clothes on the thing, bag it up and throw it in the box. >> It was her not her friend. Her friend was also doing it. >> I just saw just her on the video. >> Huh? >> I just saw just her. Just her. That's all I can see in the video. >> So I got to wait for a court date for tomorrow? >> Depends on what I'm what you're being charged with. >> They said shoplifting. >> Well, there's felony shoplifting and there's misdemeanor shoplifting. >> Well, how is it felony shoplifting? Because my stuff I paid for. >> Uh I'm the supervisor for this call. Um are you injured? >> I'm not injured but whatever. >> Okay, I just I have to ask that before >> Okay. >> Okay. All right. >> I'm safe. >> Yes, ma'am. All righty. So, what I saw on the camera, ma'am, was you scanning food items and then you put a big pile of clothes into the bagging area bagging area. And you >> No, I took them clothes out that bucket and I told him to move them and put them in the thing cuz he tried to stick them in the bag. >> I I watched you put them in a bag and put them in your tote. >> So, are they ones I paid for? >> They were not scanned. >> Which ones were not scanned? What are you talking about? Those jumpers? >> Sure. >> Those jumpers that the thing had beeped. But those was her stuff and she she wrong for that because that girl was standing right behind me and then when I turned around and looked, she was gone cuz her son tried to steal the bag and I tried to put that [ __ ] back. >> And why did you run, ma'am? >> Because I didn't want TO GO TO JAIL FOR HER for her her the [ __ ] she did. And I got a 3-month-old baby. I only came to this store to get some macaroni to cook. And that [ __ ] she did was [ __ ] >> Are those synced, the two? >> Yeah. >> Would you be able to make it so I can you can see the her leaving the self-checkout and then walking out? Essentially lock it down that she put the items in that tote. >> You ran from me once, not going to run again, right? >> Huh? >> See, you ran once, not going to run again, right? >> Why you want to let me go? >> No, I'm going to put you in my car. >> Oh. >> Come on. No, actually a buddy of mine had a had a kid run from him wearing handcuffs. >> I'm about to fall on the ground. So you are banned permanently from this Walmart. That means you can't come back whatsoever. You can't be on the property anywhere and if you do, you can and will be arrested for criminal trespass. Uh it's just a little bit easier for me to put it on you. Yeah. Here. Tell you what, I'll do this. Here. Unfortunately, I I have to leave these ones on, unfortunately. Uh these ones are the handles are too big so I can't lock them properly. I I I have to take you to the hospital here in this area. For the use of force. Yeah. So face me. And then you can just slide back in like that. And I'm so short. Try to like sit up straight square. Well, the the seats are And it hurt. The seats are designed to allow you some give you some room. Where you at? I need you to go pick up my turn from the shelter. Because I'm about to go to jail cuz my friend was stealing. Oh my god, girl. I ain't told her I was going to jail. Oh. Well, am I going to have to do that? >> Do you have $130 by chance? >> Oh, you got a He said you got $130? >> Cuz that should be how much your bond is. >> that's my bond. >> It'll be $132.50 if you go through a bond agency. >> She said she said what you want to do, cash out on me? Oh, we got to go to to give it to the bond people when I go to the jailhouse. I got to post my bond quick today. I'll be out there in a couple hours. One day and I'll be out there. >> Okay. >> Yeah, now I got to call my daughter. Y'all be doing the zip tie number? >> I have a pair, but we're not really supposed to use them unless it's a person. >> around here. >> The left one? >> Cuz my shoulder hurt. >> According to arrest reports, the woman was charged with misdemeanor shoplifting, obstruction, and resisting arrest. She was also formally issued a trespass warning from the Walmart location.