Woman Steals From A Package Store, Police Arrest Her, Angry Mob Forms To Demand Employee Gets Fired

FLORISSANT, Mo. -- Police in Florissant responded Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. to the Florissant Food and Package Liquor for a disturbance.

According to the store employee, a woman customer tried to purchase cigarillos and had a disagreement with him when she left the store without paying. The employee then said he followed her outside to try to retrieve the cigarillos. According to police, the employee said he confronted the customer and she spit on him and then he spit on her.

The customer then left the area.

The employee gave police a vehicle description of the customer, but did not wish to make a police report.

Thirty minutes later, officers responded to a residential area involving multiple people. Officers located a car that fit the same description the store employee gave police from the earlier incident at the convenience store. The woman told police that she tried to purchase cigarillos, but the employee made her leave the store so she could grab her ID. She told police she became irritated and left the business. She said the employee followed her outside and they both spit on each other. The woman said the employee also shoved her and then she left.

The group gathered outside demanding the officers to arrest the store clerk.

One man can even be seen flashing a high lumen flashlight in the officers face.