BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 19 (UPI) -- A Best Buy in Colorado has fired two employees who tackled a shoplifter in front of the electronics store, the former employees said.
Jared Bergstreser, 20, and Colin Trapp, 23, said they were informed of their firings Sunday, two weeks after they followed the shoplifter out of the Broomfield store, KMGH-TV, Denver, reported Wednesday.
"A gentleman came by us in a red shirt with a bunch of product in his hand. It was pretty obvious that he hadn't paid for it yet," Trapp said of the Aug. 1 incident, which has not resulted in any arrests.
Bergstreser said he tackled the man and Trapp jumped into the fray to help.
"We thought we had the situation under control. That's when he pulled a knife and began flailing it around wildly," Trapp told KGMH.
The manager of the store, who had come outside to try to calm the situation, was cut by the shoplifter. Bergstreser also sustained minor cuts and bruises during the struggle before the man fled with an accomplice in a green car.
The men said they do not believe they should have been fired.
"It was just completely demoralizing. You think you have in your head what you know is right or wrong, what your parents instilled in you growing up as a child, and then to be reprimanded for that act is so sour and so sad," Trapp said.
Best Buy said it does not comment on employee terminations.
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