Incident narrative & surveillance footage @ 2:15
Arrest of Matthew Abernathy @ 11:03
On November 9, 2018 Matthew Abernathy allegedly (ha) robbed a Nordstrom store in Seattle of unknown quantities of merchandise. He definitely stole some shoes, but likely concealed more before he was spotted.
Abernathy was stopped by the store’s loss prevention officer and a manager, but he managed to get hold of a pepper spray canister he had hidden on his person, subsequently spraying the two men who were holding him. Abernathy escaped.
(Surveillance footage of the incident is shown beginning around 2:57. That footage is sped up to match the loss prevention employee’s narrative.)
Seattle Police responded quickly, but not quickly enough to catch Abernathy. In this video, watch footage of the robbery and listen along with Seattle police officers as they are brought up to speed on what happened. After showing Seattle Police Department’s response to the incident, the video skips ahead eleven days — to the random moment when patrol officers spotted Abernathy strolling on by — and swoop in for the arrest.
Enjoy!
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The best part about your channel, is the fact that I can never tell if you're pro-cop or anti-cop.
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Totally unbiased, uncut, raw police action.
The best part is petty crime like this in Washington state is now legal
Going through that man phone with out a warrant is illegal as fuck. Can beat the whole case on that fact alone
I love his pouty face when he hears he has a $100,000 warrant lol
I love that when he finds what looks like a lock pick his brain association made him say it’s a “pimple popper†😂
This is the type of shit bag that’s in and out of prison his whole life.
I love the mall cops hovering in the background trying to Blart their way in the situation so they can make up stories to tell their other mall cop buddies later over some Keystone Lights at the bowling alley.
Why didn they interview that undercover lose prevention agent in the store, for everyone to see?
Should follow this guy around. Thief who also finds and is on his way to turn in lost wallets and lost credit cards……
I love it when scumbag thieves get caught…
Cops were way too nice to him.
did he steal women's shoes smdh
Love when looser get what they deserve hahaha
You can tell he’s a looser and a coward like 99% of all thieves lol
Once he said he has pepperspray I knew he did it! Crime solved.
Interesting guy. Stealing from the store, yet on his way to return a lost wallet.
That was Seattle, so his $100,000 bond was no doubt set aside and he was probably released the next day. It is now 2021, and it's dollars to donuts that he has been arrested for the same exact crime multiple times since his original arrest in 2018.
100k warrant for shoes am I missing something ?
Just as a formality I’m gonna read you your rights lol
For what? For robbing women’s shoes and then pepper spraying the staff at from Nordstrom dip shit