Michigan official who attended anti-lockdown rally gets busted for shoplifting and blames COVID-19

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May 7, 2020

By David Edwards



Royal Oak City Commissioner Kim Gibbs apologized this week after she was detained for shoplifting. According to the Royal Oak Tribune, Royal Oak Police Chief Corrigan O’Donohue confirmed that police were called to a Meijer store after Gibbs was detained by security workers.

O’Donohue revealed that Gibbs is accused of taking a grocery cart with $130 worth of items through the self-checkout lane, but she only paid “about $45 worth of the items and not the others.”

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“I would like to apologize to my family, friends and especially my constituents for my substantial lapse in judgement on Wednesday, May 6,” Gibbs said in a statement. “A combination of many external factors led to me taking items from the Meijer store without paying for all of them. The economic impact of the COVID-19 statewide lockdown has taken a serious toll on me personally.”

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Gibbs recently came under fire for attending an April 15 protest against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order. Days later, the city council censured her and asked her to resign.

“In my eyes, the scare on the coronavirus is over,” Gibbs told the paper. “I’m not a doctor, but my personal belief is that the people who got it, or are going to get it, have already gotten it, so let’s get back to work.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/michigan-official-who-attended-anti-lockdown-rally-gets-busted-for-shoplifting-and-blames-covid-19/

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Not only is this woman dishonest, but she's also an idiot. Everybody knows that Meijer workers watch those self-check lanes like hawks. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "What a maroon."

[Faux pas]

1. The

blame game is national sport of the unevolved inhumane crowd.

[Freethinker65]

2. Typical Trump loyalist unable to ever admit responsibility unless it is to one's advantage

[MagickMuffin]

3. But the virus made me do it.

Kim Gibbs, Did the virus rolled up and said "hey lady, don't pay for ALL those groceries just pretend. Kinda like you do everyday when you wake up"?

[Takket]

4. Why isn't she pulling herself up by her bootstraps???

[safeinOhio]

11. Quit that lawyer job

and lean a trade.

[Walleye]

5. Don't mess with Big Gretch!

[Cha]

6. I wondered how she could get away with only paying

for $45 at check out.. I never use those self checkouts.

Exactly.. not only a thief but an idiot. She needs to resign.

[Blue_true]

13. She can't get away with it. She didn't.

She literally tried to steal 66% of what was in her cart. What an unethical moron.

[Cha]

14. I should have said "tried to get away with.. "

Thank you!

[riversedge]

7. She reminds me of Trump-always blaming something or someone, and NEVER taking Responsibility for

your actions.

[ret5hd]

8. I SWEAR IT WAS THE FIRST TIME!!!

Let’s review some security footage, shall we?

[Midnight Writer]

10. Exactly. She has done this before, I would bet money. You don't steal a cartload your first time.

[Blue_true]

15. I agree. She has done that before at smaller levels.

She could have asked family or friends that could afford to for a loan.

[procon]

9. "I'm not a doctor."

Exactly, and you're not an airline pilot either, so just as you would not try to fly a plane, don't try to play doctor.

Heed their advice because you're a moron and should not be allowed to make any decisions beyond which foot goes in your left shoe.

Where do they find these dummies? Is there something in the water that's eating their brains, or is it a requirement to be a Republican that anyone with an IQ over 68 need not apply?

[keithbvadu2]

12. She had to get out of the house, to go ------ shopping.

She had to get out of the house, to go ------ shopping.