California Governor Gavin Newson recently got into an argument with a Target employee in that state after the Governor witnessed an alleged shoplifting incident, the Daily Caller reports.

The alleged thief actually dropped one of the items he was stealing and an employee told the thief about it, who came back and picked it up before exiting the store without paying.

Newson asked the employee why he had to pay $380 for his purchase and the other guy could walk out without buying.

Newson, who shared the story in a Zoom call, said he was told by the employee, who hadn’t recognized him, that it was the Governor’s fault.

In a Zoom call about a mental health proposition, Gov. Gavin Newsom says he was at a Target and saw someone walk out without paying.

He asked a worker why the person steals and they blamed the Governor before looking at him twice and recognizing him.

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The Daily Caller provides more details:

“’Sir, you dropped this, and he comes back, picks it up, and he’s walking out. As we’re checking out, the woman [Target employee] says, ‘Oh, he’s just walking out, he didn’t pay for that.’

I [Newsom] said, ‘Well, why don’t you stop him?’ And she goes, ‘Oh, the governor’’– swear to God, true story. On my mom’s grave – ‘the governor lowered the threshold, there’s no, there’s no accountability,’ Newsom stated.“

Newson argued with the employee that the state has the tenth toughest theft laws in America.

However, since the passing of Proposition 47 in 2014, theft under $950 is now classified as a misdemeanour instead of a criminal offence and has resulted in a huge upswing in shoplifting.

In some instance, organized shoplifting rings actually bring along calculators to make sure they stay under the $950 benchmark.

Police no longer respond to shoplifting theft because it is a complete waste of time, and blame California’s soft-on-crime prosecutors who refuse to prosecute even serious crimes.