Ok here's my story.
Me and my friend were walking around Wal-Marts and he decides to steal some stuff, so he grabs some dvds and takes them some place else and starts to open them and what not, all the time making no big deal and keeping the whole thing pretty concealed. All this time I'm doing nothing, and usually trying not to look at him while he's doing it, since I'm not really into that sort of thing. Well lo and behold, on the way out of walmarts, they stop both of us on the way out and they kinda grab him and lead him to a room. We were stopped outside the doors of Wal Mart.
So here we are in the holding room, and he gives them the stuff he stole and I'm just sitting there. This fat woman is screaming at me that I'm in just as much trouble as he is, that I was looking out for him, and that I'm an accomplice and she saw us on the camera and all this crap. So I tell her bull crap I didnt do anything (in a much nicer way), and she says shes not sure if shes gonna file charges on me but my friend is going to jail. The cops get there and arrest my friend and I'm left with his car, and they wouldn't even let me talk to him long enough to find out what I should do with his car, or who I should call or anything. When I was searching for his car with a cop earlier, to get his license for the officer, the cop started cursing and saying he "wasn't gonna spend all damn day" looking for my friends car, and "awww hell son, you don't even know where you parked? thats so stupid." I was not charged, and only issued one of those trespass things saying i can't go to wal marts or sams or anything like that again.
Here's my questions:
1.) Can officer's curse at you if you are not resisting arrest or causing problems?
2.) Is there any way to get my trespass thing removed, or will they ever remove it?
3.) Did the Wal Mart employees have the right to pull us aside like they did?
4.) If i did not touch the merchandise at all, or do anything, did they have the right to charge me for anything had they wanted to?
5.) Is it any form of abuse that the officers left me with no clue with what to do with my friends stuff by not allowing me to talk to him?
6.) Since I was not charged on the scene, is there any way Wal Marts could come back and charge me with anything having to do with this incident?
Any information would be helpful,
Garry
Me and my friend were walking around Wal-Marts and he decides to steal some stuff, so he grabs some dvds and takes them some place else and starts to open them and what not, all the time making no big deal and keeping the whole thing pretty concealed. All this time I'm doing nothing, and usually trying not to look at him while he's doing it, since I'm not really into that sort of thing. Well lo and behold, on the way out of walmarts, they stop both of us on the way out and they kinda grab him and lead him to a room. We were stopped outside the doors of Wal Mart.
So here we are in the holding room, and he gives them the stuff he stole and I'm just sitting there. This fat woman is screaming at me that I'm in just as much trouble as he is, that I was looking out for him, and that I'm an accomplice and she saw us on the camera and all this crap. So I tell her bull crap I didnt do anything (in a much nicer way), and she says shes not sure if shes gonna file charges on me but my friend is going to jail. The cops get there and arrest my friend and I'm left with his car, and they wouldn't even let me talk to him long enough to find out what I should do with his car, or who I should call or anything. When I was searching for his car with a cop earlier, to get his license for the officer, the cop started cursing and saying he "wasn't gonna spend all damn day" looking for my friends car, and "awww hell son, you don't even know where you parked? thats so stupid." I was not charged, and only issued one of those trespass things saying i can't go to wal marts or sams or anything like that again.
Here's my questions:
1.) Can officer's curse at you if you are not resisting arrest or causing problems?
2.) Is there any way to get my trespass thing removed, or will they ever remove it?
3.) Did the Wal Mart employees have the right to pull us aside like they did?
4.) If i did not touch the merchandise at all, or do anything, did they have the right to charge me for anything had they wanted to?
5.) Is it any form of abuse that the officers left me with no clue with what to do with my friends stuff by not allowing me to talk to him?
6.) Since I was not charged on the scene, is there any way Wal Marts could come back and charge me with anything having to do with this incident?
Any information would be helpful,
Garry
