VIDEO: Forever 21 Security Puts Choke Hold On Deaf Customer

By August 12, 2010

Clothing store Forever 21 is under fire today over a YouTube video showing a security guard for the store’s Hollywood Blvd. outlet wrestling a deaf customer to the ground and putting him into a choke hold on the sidewalk.

According to the person who posted the clip on YouTube:

Staff must have seen them do something to suspect them of stealing, but that doesn’t have any support or facts. Before I started filming. The Big Black dude in Jeans who mighta been a store detective jumps and tackles the large hispanic deaf guy. from there I remembered my new phone and turned on the camera,

There was who looked to be the manager of XXI that said to turn off the camera because they didn’t want to get exposed for harassing and dealing with a situation that turned sour.

From there, you get to see the turn of events and then in the aftermath, the sorting out of exactly what happen. From what I saw that you guys can’t, the deaf guy in the white shirt was apparently assuring the store with receipts for what he was carrying.

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  1. Clyde Barrow says:
    August 13, 2010 at 12:44 pm

    Kirstin Nagle is at this moment have her afternoon tea contemplating her next move; “should I wear blue or yellow for the TV news crew? Mmmmm”.

  2. millertime1211 says:
    August 13, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    Lesson of the day….DON’T STEAL! A choke-out it nothing, in some countries his hand would have been cut off. More people need a lesson learned like this, if he hadn’t decided that he was above the law in paying for merchandise than the guard wouldn’t have decided he was above the law in not choking him out. Karma….sucks sometimes doesn’t it!

  3. regis42 says:
    August 13, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    “KTLA will have more after the Raider’s game”? Is this old, or has football season totally snuck up on me?

  4. beccasmom4321 says:
    August 14, 2010 at 7:51 am

    OK, So your saying it’s wrong Why? He was supposedly steeling. Because he’s deaf he gets to go home scotch free? That doesn’t make any sense!
    Any other person caught steeling would get the same thing. Why should he be treated any different.
    Yes, I feel bad for him, I feel bad because he’s deaf. I feel badly for anyone who’s hearing impaired, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be captured for something that he did wrong.
    Sorry, but he was just doing his job to catch the guy.

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