Antioch Dollar General manager attacked by thieves
Three women walked in and filled shopping carts and bags when they were confronted by the manager.
ANTIOCH, Tenn. (WSMV) - Surveillance video shows a Dollar General employee being attacked by thieves during the middle of the day at a store in Antioch.
The attack happened just inside the back doors to the Dollar General. A manager said one minute she was trying to stop people from stealing and the next she was on the ground with scratches and bruises.
“I wasn’t thinking at all. I was just reacting,” the manager said.
The video shows a group of women attacking the manager in the back of the Dollar General.
“The biggest girl, she grabbed me, and she pulled me on the ground,” the manager said.
The manager asked not to show her face or share her name out of fear of losing her job.
She said the attack began with the group of girls walking into the store, packed carts and bags full of merchandise, and tried to walk off.
“They started hitting me in my back, and I tried to get up, and tried to keep them from taking stuff. They just pushed me back down until I got up, and then they just shoved me out of the door and locked it,” the manager said. “I was so tired I couldn’t even breathe.”
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The three women grabbed what they could and drove off in an SUV.
“I was frustrated, really frustrated, because I’ve heard a lot of stories just like this, and it doesn’t really seem like anything is being done,” the manager said.
She said just moments after she was attacked, she heard other stores nearby were also robbed.
“It seems like these stores are being targeted because it’s an easy target,” the manager said. “They can come in and load whatever they want into a basket, and they can walk out with an easy pass.”
The manager said she’s asked her bosses for a security guard and more staff members, but she’s always gotten denied.
Efforts to reach Dollar General for a statement have been unsuccessful.
“I don’t know if they would bring a weapon or if they would bring another person, or if they would just wait for me to come out of my store,” the manager said.
She said she was scared to walk back through the store doors.
Metro Nashville Police said they are looking for the three women caught stealing and assaulting the woman on camera.
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