Toronto police are investigating a theft and violent encounter captured on video and shared on social media after a civilian was recorded trying to prevent multiple thieves from stealing alcohol at an LCBO in Etobicoke.
The nearly one-minute-long video posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, begins by showing two men and a woman carrying what appears to be bags full of alcohol and heading toward the exit at an LCBO store on the Queensway.
A male customer intervenes by grabbing one of the male suspects and punching him in the face. The female suspect then heads for the door with her bag of stolen alcohol.
The person recording the altercation pans away from the two men, and you can hear someone else in the LCBO shout out that one of the suspects has a knife.
“Let it go,” customers are heard imploring. “Let them go, sir.”
One of the male suspects then approaches the customer with what appears to be a bottle of liquor in his hand, holding it above his head and threatening to hit the civilian.
The video then shows the other male suspect and the woman carrying multiple bags of stolen liquor out the door while the fight carries on outside.
“It’s not worth it,” one woman in the LCBO is heard saying. “Let it go, sir,” says the man recording the encounter. The video then abruptly ends.
CityNews has reached out to the LCBO for comment.