Day: May 28, 2023
Lululemon Employees Say They Were Fired For Calling 911 on Looters Ransacking Store (VIDEO)
GOOD IS EVIL AND EVIL GOOD!
From thegatewaypundit.com
Metro Atlanta Lululemon employees claim they were fired for calling the police on looters ransacking the store.
Earlier this week, a mob looted a Lululemon in Peachtree Corners and took off with stolen merchandise.
According to one of the fired employees, the same group of masked burglars had targeted the Lululemon store for weeks as horrified employees watched in silence.
After several robberies, the employees decided to call the police – and they were promptly fired for violating the company’s policy of not interfering with a burglary.
“Approximately two weeks ago, my wife was terminated from her job at Lululemon for ‘breaking employee handbook policy’ of not interfering with a burglary. Lululemon representatives held a zoom call a few days after the incident to learn what Jenn knew about the policy. Then, a few days later, they scheduled a follow-up zoom call where they terminated her citing the company’s “zero tolerance policy” in these situations. No warning. No coaching. No additional training. Just. Fired. Georgia being an at-will employment state, employers can do that whenever they wish. That is their right. But it doesn’t make it right. Especially in this situation.” a husband of one of the fired employees said in a Facebook post.
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Two metro Atlanta women say they were fired from the Lululemon in Peachtree Corners for calling the police to report a robbery.
Jennifer Ferguson was the assistant manager at the time.
“All of a sudden we see some gentlemen run into the store in masks and hoodies,” Ferguson said, “They swiped until they couldn’t hold any more product and ran out the door.”
Rachel Rogers was a key leader at the time. She caught the robbery on camera.
“We didn’t really feel very protected or know what else to do,” Rogers said.
Rogers has been working for the company for five years. She says the Peachtree Corners location has been dealing with a string of thefts for months. She shared what happened during a separate incident.
No one at the store called the police during the other swipes. This time, Rogers and Ferguson called the authorities. However, Ferguson says this went against company policy.
Gwinnett Police Department confirmed to 11Alive that there have been a few robberies in the area. According to a police report, the three thieves at the Peachtree Corner’s LuLuLemon are now facing felony robbery charges.
However, Rogers and Ferguson were both fired. Both were given the same reasoning.
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Arkansas Street Preacher Is Pulled Over, Placed Under Arrest for Anti-LGBT ‘Sermon’ He Gave a Year Before
From ijr.com
An Arkansas street preacher was arrested recently, nearly one year after voicing his beliefs on the sidewalk, a move that could have chilling implications for First Amendment rights in the state.
Batesville resident Jeremy Anders says he felt called to testify while driving through the city on June 5 of last year.
Anders, a former homosexual who has renounced the lifestyle and now vehemently preaches against it, posted himself on a downtown sidewalk and began speaking about local businesses’ engagement with LGBT causes.
Many of the downtown businesses, including Stella’s Brick Oven, the restaurant Anders was preaching in front of, were closed on June 5, 2022 — a Sunday.
A police report taken that night, after Anders had already left the area, lists Stella’s owner as the complainant. She told police Anders started posting “aggressive videos” on the business’ Facebook page after she placed a “safe place” sticker on the window, and quoted Anders as saying, “people like you should burn in hell.”
Also included as a witness in the report is Shannon Hix, founderof “Batesville PRIDE,” an LGBT organization in the city.
The preaching and subsequent police response took place less than a week before Hix’s group’s annual “PRIDEfest” was set to begin.
While saying his nightly prayers that same evening, Anders was visited by officers from the Batesville Police Department, who informed him of the decision and ordered him not to return to the business.
Although Anders said he never returned to Stella’s, the issue appears to have been quickly escalated by authorities without his knowledge.
On June 7, a day after the police report was initially filed, a Batesville police investigator signed a probable cause affidavit for Anders’ actions in front of Stella’s and social media posts made by the street preacher, calling the business “gay pride supporters” and “homosexual enablers.” An arrest warrant was filed three days later, claiming there were reasonable grounds for believing Anders committed misdemeanor harassment.
For nearly a year, Anders continued with his life and mission, unaware he was wanted by police.
While driving to work on April 20, Anders was blindsided. The street preacher was pulled over and arrested on the outstanding harassment warrant. He was kept in jail for over 24 hours and now faces a June 14 court date.
Fortunately for Anders, a member of a major Christian organization has taken up his case.
“Everything that they accused him of doing is protected speech and expression under the First Amendment,” Bob Ballinger, director of law and policy at the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, told The Western Journal.
“There is nothing that he’s done that is not protected speech.”
It looks like Ballinger is right when it comes to the case against Anders.
There’s a good reason the Founding Fathers didn’t put a litmus test in the First Amendment for what constitutes “allowed” speech and religion. Giving government the power to determine whether speech is made with or without “good cause” creates problems that our nation’s founders understood all too well.
“I think the city feels like he’s small and that he’s insignificant and that he is a pest … and his life [doesn’t] matter that much,” Ballinger said. “They’re willing to crush his rights because he’s a nuisance to the wrong people.”
“It’s fundamentally immoral,” he continued, “not to mention unconstitutional.”
Thankfully, Anders is not being pawned off on a public defender hungry for a plea deal. Ballinger and the NACL are ready to fight for the street preacher’s rights, and by extension, the most basic right afforded to all of us by the Constitution.
“Right now he’s the least one, but it won’t be very long until we’re the least ones,” Ballinger warned. “It’s important that his rights are protected and that our rights are protected.”
A fundraiser securing donations for Anders’ legal defense can be found here. source
Brethren, we were warned by Jesus about the arrest of His people, and also that we would be killed for His namesake!
“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).
MARANATHA!
