Overview

• Newly circulated bodycam footage from March 7, 2024 shows a manager at Meijer’s Seven Hills, Ohio store accusing 19-year-old deli worker James Denison of taking about $110 in fruit cups and chicken over three months, and Denison says they were shift lunches he forgot to repay.
• The video depicts Denison being searched in the manager’s office, handcuffed, transported to a precinct, booked for minor theft, and released on a $0 bond as the officer attempts to calm him.
• Meijer posted a statement on Aug. 20 saying the situation should have been handled differently and that a new procedure was implemented earlier this year to prevent similar incidents.
• The footage’s spread on social platforms prompted widespread calls to boycott the Midwestern grocer.
• A GoFundMe for Denison was reported to have raised about $28,000, but the fundraiser page has since been deleted, according to MLive.