A Lowe’s worker has been fired from a Georgia store for intervening in a shoplifting heist that left her with a black eye.
Donna Hansbrough, 68, attempted to stop a gang of shoplifters making off with more than $2,000 worth of merchandise from her store in Rincon, Georgia last month.
The thieves refused to go quietly and punched her repeatedly in the face, leaving her with a black eye.
Despite her heroic efforts standing up to the criminals, Hansbrough’s was fired by Lowe’s after 13 years for violating company policy that state’s staff who witness shoplifting must not intervene and instead call the authorities.
‘The guy decided he wanted to be let go, so he punched me and grabbed my glasses as I still held onto the cart,’ Hansbrough, who worked for Lowe’s for more than thirteen years, recalled to WTOC.