Toronto should be renamed "The Ass-Backwards City", it already pays it's unskilled unionized workers more than it's workers who require skill or a brain to do their jobs. ($52,000 a year to hand out subway tokens, $45,000 a year to clean streets, $55,000 a year to pick up garbage).
Now add this our list of backwardness, police and prosecutors have charged the owner and two employees of a flower shop for making a citizens arrest of a local crackhead shoplifter who supports his habit by stealing from all the shops in Chinatown.
He stole from them earlier in the day, but got away. Then he came back an hour later to steal again but this time got caught.
They called the police, who came and charged the shopkeeper and 2 employees with assault, forcible confinement, concealing a weapon, and kidnapping.
The thief was charged for shoplifting.
Pretty ass backwards huh?
But it doesn't end there. The prosecutor agreed to a reduced sentence for the thief (of 30 days), in exchange for testifying against the shopkeeper. And now the prosecutor is considering dropping the kidnapping charge to take away the shopkeeper's right to a jury trial.
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