Downtown shopkeeper assaulted
PRINCE GEORGE – Enough is enough.
That’s the sentiment of one downtown business owner who was punched in the face when she tried to stop a shoplifter from leaving her store with stolen goods. It’s not the first time Kate Roxburgh has had to deal with thieves and break in’s, but this time she’d had enough. But it earned her a right hook to the face and she sports a scar across the bridge of the nose to show it.
She says a customer was in the store and on the phone with the detachment, but Roxburgh told police not to bother.
“Nothing ever changes,” she says, throwing her hands in the air. “The system is set up that a person will either be arrested or not or have a finger shaken at them and they’re back on the street doing exactly what they do with another business. And we deal with this every day. We deal with drugs in the back alley. You walk out the back door and you’re worried about your safety because there are four people shooting up outside my back door. There are needles everywhere.”
