A 65-year-old Black woman near Houston, Texas thought it was her lucky day when she found 50 dollars on the floor of her local grocery store. However, she ended up being assaulted by three white employees instead. Betty Smith claims that three white store clerks at the Lindemann grocery store in Industry, Texas detained and assaulted her after she found 50 dollars on the floor of the store. Money they claimed belonged to a friend of the store clerk that had been in the store minutes before. What started as a small disagreement ultimately ended in Smith’s assault and the arrest of her granddaughter, Dezteni Cyrus who arrived on the scene in an attempt to de-escalate the situation. The store’s employees have since been fired and the Austin County District Attorney’s Office has declined to file charges on either side. However, Smith’s family is seeking justice and believes the three store employees should be charged for violating Smith’s human and civil rights. Could this have been the result of racial discrimination by the employees? Should there be serious consequences for their actions? The Shade Room investigates…
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Wish I could have been there, I'd have b** slapped those white trash girls & beat the breaks off that dude. That was somebody's grandmother and somebody's mother trying to do the right thing with fifty bucks she found, and not wanting to just give it to anybody. Then white trash hose had no intention of giving that money over to the right person they would have pocketed it themselves. They deserve to get more than just fired.
I hate how that cop went straight for the granddaughter
The old lady attacked first…and shouldn't have said she found 50 dollars.
They were simply angry that they didn't find the money first, so they took it out on her
The granddaughter arrives in a robe? Was it that urgent?
Are you all blind? Grandma reaches for the girls neck before they restrain her (2:29). Just give back the money, wasn't yours in the first place. Or shut up and leave, her cart was empty anyway.
Nothing racial about it. She Rammed the cart into her first.
Lady your wrong. You attacked her with the shopping cart and try to choke up.
Maggots always come in clumps.
The grandmother isn't innocent here with the aggressive actions. It wasn't choke hold either. After trying to ram the manager with the cart and then trying to choke her, she was restrained. While restrained she smacked the other white girl.
I understand why the grandmother wanted to wait and give the money directly. I don't trust people with money either. Whatever was said back and forth is irrelevant, nobody had a right to get aggressive. There's blame to go around to probably all of them. As an employee you don't speak to people like that regardless of how you were spoken to. (Not saying the grandmother said anything wrong here). Let's not make this about race, it didn't appear so and we can't speculate just because. It seemed by what we watched on the video, that the grandmother got aggressive, was restrained from it and then let go. The granddaugther was arrested because when the police walked up she pushed the manager. I wish we could see the entire thing outside and see if the manager was aggressive to the granddaugther. Legally i can see the three employees having a lawsuit against the store for firing them if done so about race. It's horrible this entire thing even happened. The employees could have just called Caleb and have him return and the lady give him his money directly, and that's all she asked in the beginning. Like I said, blame to go around to everyone, the employees and the grandmother.
Girl if u no calb u should’ve called him white bitches these days i so can’t stand them
These Karen’s and bbq Becky kids 😂
This is sad 😢
I'd never dream of treating some old lady like that no matter what she's doing, they are fragile and whatever, you know?.that ain't right
Stop making excuses for BS, bigoted behavior. Nothing that grandmother did warranted the actions of those people. PERIOD! Those employees were fired bc they found they did EVERYTHING WRONG! Over $50. The store owner apologized & even offered to pay bail. All without being asked & trying to cover their ass. These were regular customers to the store. Not people visiting the town.
She should’ve given the money to the manager like they asked
The ole lady wrong you can't $5 in my house
Jesus
The black granny was wrong because she was trying to attack the white cashier period..the other white girl were restraining her! Now, she claim to be a victim stfu
Stfu the black granddaughter shoved the white manager. She's should have been charged with assault stfu..
That's quanell x grandma
Why is this dude Justin Carter such a sweet bootie? Be a man 😂
God help me bevause these are the encounters I have suffered and this makes me want to whooop ass!
Come on folks. There's definitely a false narrative going on here.
It’s hard to be black in America. I’m a black female i don’t look at people or talk if i don’t have to I look straight ahead if someone smiles or says hi i do the same and just keep going. Not to mention police officers. They are usually mean looking I avoid them at all costs.
All I see is a lot of y’all would’ve got dealt with if that was my grandma.. the pink shirt has an attitude already, let’s not be naive, and gramps checked her TONE..
They offered her $50 for her troubles 😂 what the $50 she found ?? naww man this warrants a settlement alot more than that.
I wish I was a customer I would have gladly took a charge for her because I would’ve whoop all their asses
That grandmother is a criminal!! Lock her dirty ass up!
If she wasn’t an elder I bet you they never would’ve stepped like they did her!💯
There’s a ton of hateful ppl in these comments making excuses for three young ppl on one old person.
Interesting….. 🤔…
All I’m going to say is they knew exactly who to touch because if it was someone able bodied they would have gotten bodied simple 😂
Honestly there’s a lot of blame to go around for the confusion. Nobody was hurt, they were let go, so no need to push the issue.
White guy fixing a mailbox shot and killed by two blacks
Poor me! In my 50$ 😢
Honestly, if you find money on the floor, it’s not yours. That’s someone’s money and they can come looking for it later. If you find money, you should turn it in not try to walk out the store with it. It looks to me like she was being just as aggressive as what they were. She was mad because she couldn’t keep the money. And if y’all didn’t notice she went for that woman’s throat. I mean come on y’all can’t be that stupid to be on her side when you literally saw what happened. She thought that they wanted to keep that money, but they were telling the truth. She wanted to keep it. They literally did not beat her and she was being just as aggressive. People are so funny the black man talking about racist behavior, but yet he’s the one being racist as hell.
She assaulted her w the damn cart then may have but def tried to put her hands on the the neck. She needs to be arrested
Technically if you pick up money that doesn't belong to you its theft. She should have turned the money in and the store should have reviewed the video of the store to find the owner. What that old woman did was wrong and now she's playing victim when she started the aggression and attacks.
Moral of story…don't steal someone's money just because you are older DOES NOT mean you can go around doing this stuff and being surprised at consequences
Ummm she tried chocking some first😂😂😂
I am colored but I didn't see any racism here. I see the lady bumped the manager with the trolley and tried to attack her. Sometimes we blow things out of proportion. Those ladies should be suspended possibly but not fired for upholding the store policy.
Ya'll keep saying the grandmother attacked first but they licked her in the freaking store. Yall trippin
Good for those kids for standing up for what they believed was right. That woman should have been charged.
This story is just disgusting I mean people really need to learn to act right that owner had no business firing the employees actively trying to protect her customers. I’d organize a boycott of that place see how long they last. 😊