'Aggressive and harassing' migrants, thieves prompt a New York Home Depot to deploy security guards with dogs



A Home Depot in New York recently hired third-party security guards with dogs to patrol its parking lot due to theft and loitering migrants harassing customers, the New York Post reported.

The Home Depot, located in New Rochelle, is now guarded by two MSA Security workers wearing bulletproof vests. The men walk the property with a German Shepherd, the Post observed Tuesday.

One of the guards told the news outlet that Home Depot contracted the company a few weeks ago to address several issues, including thieves and loitering migrants.

"It's more about omnipresence," the guard stated. "It's not like we let [the dog] go bite anyone or anything."

The presence of the security guards and their K9 has appeared to put an end to the issue, the Post observed this week. However, just seven miles away at one of Home Depot's Bronx locations, 30 male migrants were seen lingering near the doors.

According to the Post, some of the individuals were day laborers hoping to find work with local contractors. Many of the other migrants were accosting customers, attempting to sell them fake Apple AirPods or make tips for helping them move their items into their vehicles.

One worker told the news outlet that several women have reported being robbed by the migrants who took their purses and phones.

"You come out and you're a woman by yourself, they literally leech onto your wagon, and you're like, 'No, I don't need any help,'" the worker said. "And when they're following you to your car; it's unnerving."

She told the Post that one day on her way to work, she observed roughly 100 men in the parking lot.

A shopper told the news outlet that she had a negative encounter with one of the migrants when leaving the store with her husband.

Despite the couple's repeated refusal, the man insisted on helping them load a couple of boxes and a paint scraper into their vehicle.

"He's still keeps following, like on top of us," she explained.

The shopper claimed that the man "put his hand" on one of the boxes after she refused his help multiple times. She stated that her husband told the man, "Don't touch anything," but he did not stop.

"So I held up my pepper spray, and I yelled, 'He said don't touch,'" she continued. "And all of a sudden he goes, 'Oh, you don't have to yell at me.' ... But he started looking like he was getting angry. So we just hurried up and jumped in the car."

She accused Home Depot's headquarters of "brush[ing] off" her complaint. She noted that a regional manager informed her that the company planned to deploy security guards with dogs to two Bronx locations.

LaurieAnn Masciocco, who works in Home Depot's customer service department, told the Post, "It's come to the point where they're invading personal space, touching people's belongings, just harassing."

"I get it, you're trying to make a buck. But when it becomes aggressive and harassing there's a major issue," Masciocco added.

Even the migrant day laborers searching for construction work are fed up with the assertive solicitors.

One Mexican national told the news outlet, "There are a lot of people who have been coming here for a lot of years ... asking people for jobs in construction and if they need help with projects."

He said the aggressive solicitors impact their ability to find work "because now people don't want to communicate with us because they're scared."

"They confuse us with them," he remarked.

One of the migrants who charges customers for assisting them with their items told the Post that he makes approximately $300 per day on tips.

Margaret Smith, a spokesperson for Home Depot, would not confirm whether the company plans to add guards to the Bronx locations.

"While we can't go into specifics about our security measures," she stated, "it's not unusual for us to use third-party security at various stores across the country."

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Wild video: Rampaging male uses skid loader to smash police cruiser, other vehicles in multiple parking lots



A rampaging male was caught on video using a skid loader to smash a police cruiser and other vehicles in multiple parking lots in Lincoln, Nebraska, over the weekend.

What are the details?

Officers were called around 2:30 p.m. Sunday to a business near 73rd Street and Pine Lake Road where 36-year-old Samuel Peyrot was driving a skid loader and damaging vehicles in the parking lot, police told KKLN-TV.

Peyrot then went to a Home Depot near 70th Street and Nebraska Parkway, where he rammed the skid loader into a police cruiser after an officer arrived on the scene, police told the station.

The officer exited the cruiser and drew his weapon, KKLN said, adding that police soon took Peyrot into custody without firing their guns:

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Witness Zachary Martin jokingly told the station in an interview, "I guess Nebraska's the new Florida. I'm gonna start seeing 'Nebraska man' headlines everywhere."

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Peyrot was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault on an officer, second-degree assault, and criminal mischief, KKLN said.

Police added that a man inside a truck suffered minor injuries as a result of the incident, and Peyrot damaged two nearby businesses and multiple vehicles, the station said.

Peyrot's employer owns the skid loader, police told KKLN, adding that the suspect had taken it to a gas station with a company-owned truck and trailer.

The station said an investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information can call police at 402-441-6000 or Crime Stoppers at 402-475-3600.

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Maryland man allegedly kills elderly woman with a forklift, steals her car after burglarizing Lowe's, police say



A Maryland man faces several charges after allegedly killing an elderly woman with a forklift, stealing her car, and burglarizing a Lowe's home improvement store, Charles County Sheriff's Office officials say.

Bryce Caleb Timothy Brown, 20, of Waldorf, Maryland, was arrested and charged Sunday with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, assault, theft, and other related charges.

Police were responding to reports of a burglary in progress at Lowe's around 12:40 a.m. when they found 73-year-old Gloristine Pinkney beneath a forklift in a nearby Home Depot parking lot on Jefferson Farm Place in Waldorf, Maryland. Pinkney was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities say Brown and Pinkey are not known to each other.

Brown reportedly broke into Lowe's, about a half-mile from Home Depot, stole the forklift, and rammed it through the rear gates. For "unknown reasons," he then drove the forklift to Home Depot, where he allegedly rammed a car in which Pinkney was sleeping.

When Brown struck sleeping Pinkney's car, she got out and tried to run away. Brown allegedly followed her, hit her with the forklift, ran over her, stole her car, and fled, according to the CCSO.

Authorities recovered Pinkey's vehicle near Brown's home.

Brown was arrested Sunday evening. He is currently being held at the Charles County Detention Center without bond, according to the CCSO's press release.

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Home Depot founder SLAMS Biden for 'BRINGING DOWN' America



Biden’s America is not the America that Bernie Marcus knows and loves. The co-founder of Home Depot spoke to Glenn Beck to lay out why.

Marcus is 93 years old, and he’s lived through it all. He grew up in a family who struggled to get food on the table, but never struggled to maintain a strong attitude centered around American values. He’s been through all the Republican and Democrat administrations and has never seen one like this.

He says, “I never thought that the world could change so quickly in two years. Biden got into office, and he is extreme in every way you could think of. And I’m a great believer in the capitalist system. I think capitalism built America, made us the strongest land in the world. That’s why people have come across the border … they want to have their own American dream.”

Glenn asks Marcus if he believes he could start Home Depot today.

He confidently says no, he doesn’t. The current administration seems to be conspiring to take down small businesses in every way, and they’ve made it nearly impossible to do what Marcus did so many years ago. This is why he started the Job Creators Network, to protect small businesses. They’re the backbone of America, and he won’t see them fail.

However, the Biden administration is doing a great job of making his goal of helping small businesses a hard one to reach. He says, “Democratic Congress, they want to pass laws that raise taxes. That’ll knock out half the Americans or half the small businesses in America. They’re not going to survive.”

He adds, “I mean, think about this, in America, you can’t find people who want to work.” Marcus laments that the American dream has started to fade, and it’s all on purpose.

Glenn agrees, saying, “So many people don’t understand. Don’t accept anything as a plan. They just think maybe this is incompetence. There’s too much that has happened for anybody’s batting average to be that bad unless it’s intentional and what they’re doing is resetting capitalism.”

He continues, “They’re directing us into this new system and destroying the value of our dollar to be able to reset into something that they’ll have more control over.”

Marcus agrees, saying this was done all on purpose. Inflation is through the roof and families can’t afford eggs. Cost of energy is rising. The administration won’t stop printing money that we don’t have. Banks are collapsing, and they now want to create a digital dollar.

It’s all been manufactured by the policies of Biden.

Marcus says ominously, “He wants to bring down this country … [and] he’s doing a hell of a good job of it.”


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Judge awards Home Depot victory after employee fired for wearing Black Lives Matter messaging



A government judge ruled on Friday in favor of Home Depot, dismissing a case brought by a former employee who was fired for refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter slogan from his work uniform.

What is the background?

The National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Home Depot last August after a Minnesota employee was fired for wearing a BLM slogan on his apron.

The NLRB complaint accused Home Depot of having "discriminated" against the employee "for raising issues of racial harassment with coworkers and managers and displaying a Black Lives Matter slogan on his apron," conduct the agency says is protected under the National Labor Relations Act.

Home Depot prohibits employees from wearing anything — whether on their Home Depot apron or otherwise — that promotes "causes or political messages unrelated to workplace matters."

The NLRB argued that messages related to BLM should not fall under the policy. In fact, the agency claimed the employee was engaging in "protected concerted activity," which the NLRB defines as discussing with co-workers how to improve work conditions and compensation, petitioning for better work hours, and discussing work-related problems with the employer, government, or media.

What happened now?

Administrative law Judge Paul Bogas has dismissed the case.

In his ruling, Bogas explained that "BLM messaging is not inherently concerted," and that BLM rhetoric lacks "an objective, and sufficiently direct, relationship to terms and conditions of employment."

"BLM messaging originated, and is primarily used, to address the unjustified killings of black individuals by law enforcement and vigilantes," Bogas explained. "To the extent the message is being used for reasons beyond that, it operates as a political umbrella for societal concerns and relates to the workplace only in the sense that workplaces are part of society."

TheBlaze reached out to Home Depot for comment, but the company did not immediately respond.

Last year, a spokeswoman for Home Depot said:

The Home Depot does not tolerate workplace harassment of any kind and takes all reports of discrimination or harassment seriously, as we did in this case. We disagree with the characterization of this situation and look forward to sharing the facts during the NLRB’s process.

Rulings by NLRB agency judges can be appealed to the full NLRB in Washington, D.C., which is currently composed of three Democrats and two Republicans. From there, the matter can be settled in federal court.

Activists demand boycott of Home Depot because company didn't strongly denounce Georgia voting law



Activists in Georgia are demanding a new boycott of Home Depot, not over something the company said or did, but precisely because they believe the home improvement retail store did not disavow Georgia new election law with strong enough language.

What is the background?

Critics of Georgia's voting law — which has been the subject of rampant misinformation — claim the law makes voting more difficult. Supporters of the law, however, say the law was necessary to improve election integrity and have noted that many other states have enacted similar provisions.

With building pressure from activists, and such claims from President Joe Biden that the law is "Jim Crow in the 21st century," many major corporations spoke out against the law, and Major League Baseball even moved its All-Star game from Georgia over growing pressure to address the law.

The Coca-Cola Company and Delta Air Lines — two companies whose headquarters are located in Atlanta — denounced the bill. Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said his company "does not support this legislation," citing claims that it makes voting more difficult, while Delta CEO Ed Bastian called the law "unacceptable and does not match Delta's values."

Home Depot also addressed the law, saying, "We believe that all elections should be accessible, fair and secure and support broad voter participation. We'll continue to work to ensure our associates, both in Georgia and across the country, have the information and resources to vote."

What are activists saying?

According to the New York Times, a coalition of black faith leaders are demanding a boycott of Home Depot because they believe the company "abdicated its responsibility as a good corporate citizen by not pushing back on the state's new voting law."

Bishop Reginald Jackson, who leads all 534 African Methodist Episcopal churches in the Peach State, claimed Home Depot "demonstrated an indifference, a lack of response to the call, not only from clergy, but a call from other groups to speak out in opposition to this legislation."

"We don't believe this is simply a political matter," Jackson told the Times. "This is a matter that deals with securing the future of this democracy, and the greatest right in this democracy is the right to vote."

Rev. Timothy McDonald III, a pastor in Atlanta, added, "This is not just a Georgia issue; we're talking about democracy in America that is under threat. We've got to use whatever leverage and power, spiritual fortitude that we have, including our dollars, to help people to understand that this is a national campaign."

However, other activists who spoke with the Times said they could not support a boycott because such efforts impact working-class people.

Still, others suggested any impact to workers is acceptable collateral damage.

"It is unfortunate for those who will be impacted by this, but how many more million will be impacted if they don't have the right to vote?" said Jamal Bryant, the senior pastor of a church in Lithonia. "And so in weighing it out, we understand, tongue in cheek, that this is a necessary evil. But it has to happen in order for the good to happen."

Home Depot co-founder writes op-ed explaining why he's endorsing Trump, Democrats launch boycott campaign



Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, endorsed President Donald Trump in the 2020 election and called him "Ronald Reagan's heir," which was immediately met with uproar by Democrats online.

Marcus wrote an opinion piece on Fox News titled "Trump deserves a second term and has my vote. Here's why." The 91-year-old billionaire is hopeful that the U.S. economy is rebounding from the coronavirus pandemic, as seen with the record-setting 33.1% GDP growth in the third quarter.

Marcus applauded Trump for instituting a China travel ban on Jan. 31, which Joe Biden opposed. Marcus is impressed by Operation Warp Speed, which he said, "reduced burdensome regulations to develop a vaccine in record time."

"Trump's pro-growth policies, including tax cuts and deregulation, have given entrepreneurs the opportunity and capital to hire, expand, and raise wages," Marcus wrote in the op-ed. "This has created a roaring and resilient small business economy that can quickly bounce back from the pandemic shock."

The Home Depot co-founder noted that before the COVID-19 pandemic, "the unemployment rate fell to historic lows, including record levels for Hispanic and Black workers."

"In 2019, middle-class incomes grew at the record rate of 6.8 percent – almost 50 percent more than during the entire eight-year Obama-Biden administration," he added. "And the poverty rate fell to its lowest level in 60 years."

Marcus said he is voting for Trump because he believes that with a second term the president "can improve the small business climate even further, facilitating entrepreneurship, which accelerates economic growth and provides careers to those who need them most."

Angry Democrats saw the Home Depot co-founder supporting Trump and launched the #BoycottHomeDepot campaign, despite Marcus retiring from the company in 2002.

"The co-founder of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, thinks Trump deserves a second term," talk show host and Democratic strategist Chip Franklin wrote on Twitter. "Who else is ready to boycott Home Depot? #BoycottHomeDepot"

"Would you do me a quick favor and please comment with #BoycottHomeDepot to get this trending? I want to make sure the co-founder of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, pays for saying that Trump deserves a second term," Franklin added.

"If you plan on buying a hammer, wood, or ANY home improvement items from Home Depot, you may as well send donations DIRECTLY to trump's 2020 campaign," one person tweeted.

One individual implied that the support of Trump equated to supporting Nazis.

However, there was a counter-movement of Americans saying that they would shop more at Home Depot after learning about Marcus endorsing Trump.

Conservative talk show radio host Jason Rantz said, "Support your local Home Depot and the workers tolerant progressives will lay off during a pandemic because the founder supports @realDonaldTrump."

"If the morons on the left are tweeting #BoycottHomeDepot I am immediately doing all my shopping at Home Depot," a Twitter user said. "I hope they start selling meat, fruits, and vegetables!"

"WE SUPPORT @HomeDepot because they SUPPORT AMERICA," another person stated.

Conservative commentator Melissa Tate responded by saying, "The betas saying they are going to #BoycottHomeDepot don't even know how to change a light bulb let alone swing a hammer. Trust me, these are not Home Depot shoppers."

This isn't the first time that Democrats attempted to organize a boycott against Home Depot. In July of 2019, Marcus showed support of Trump, and leftists launched an online campaign to attempt to cancel the hardware retailer.

At the time, Home Depot spokeswoman Margaret Smith released a statement noting that Marcus retired more than a decade ago and does not speak on behalf of the company. "In fact, as a standard practice, the company does not endorse Presidential candidates," Smith told NPR last year.

Bernie Marcus has a net worth of $7.4 billion, according to Forbes. Last July, Marcus told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he plans to donate "80 to 90% of whatever is left of his wealth will go to his foundation, which in turn will give to philanthropic causes" after he dies.