Recently, California Governor Gavin Newsom witnessed firsthand the lawlessness and rampant crime that has plagued his state while visiting a Target.
Newsom proceeded to question an employee as to why the shoplifter wasn’t being stopped. The Target employee answered by blaming the governor’s leadership for a rise in criminal activity, not realizing that she was speaking directly to Newsom.
Gov. Newsom recounted the experience during a virtual webinar about mental health. Footage of the Zoom call was shared to X by Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler, who wrote in his caption, “In a Zoom call about a mental health proposition, Gov. Gavin Newsom says he was at a Target and saw someone walk out without paying. He asked a worker why the person steals and they blamed the Governor before looking at him twice and recognizing him. “I was like, why I am spending $380 and everyone can walk the hell right out.”
During the meeting, Newsom described the event, stating, “Sir, you dropped this and he comes back, picks it up. And he’s walking out. As we’re checking out, the woman says, Oh, he’s just walking out. And I say, Why aren’t you stopping?”
“She goes, Oh, the governor. Swear to God, true story. On my mom’s grave. The governor lowered the threshold. There’s, there’s no there’s no accountability. I said, that’s just not true. I said, we have the 10th tenth toughest, 950 dollars, the tenth toughest in America,” he continued.