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    Default Wrongly Accused of Shoplifting

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: Florida
    Two days ago, a friend and I were in a Spencer's store at our local mall. We had remained in the back of the store, looking at the blacklights for the majority of our visit. We didn't even place any items in our hands from the store. We had noticed a lady was following us the entire time we were in the store. We had felt slightly creeped out (not knowing she was a worker) so we left. Once we left the store she came up to us and held two items in her hands. She asked "Do you know about this?", making it seem like a sales promotion or something of the sort. To that I replied, "Umm... No?" and she said "Yes. You do.." It was then that I looked closer and I saw it was an empty packaging for gauges/body piercings (WHICH ARE KEPT IN A GLASS CASE AND ARE LOCKED WITH A KEY AND ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STORE). Then I realized she was asking if we had taken. So I told her that we didn't take them. She said "Give them back to me now." I told her I didn't have them and even handed over my purse to her and showed her my pockets, in case she wanted to search them. She refused to search them. She then said "Get the F*** out of my store. And don't come back."
    My friend and I were very shaken up about this and were practically in tears over how she accused us, cursed at us, and yelled at us. (Grant it, we're only 17 and 16.) When we had walked away from the store, my friend called her mom and told her about the incident. Her mom called the store and talked to the lady. The lady said if we came back to the store, she'd apologize. She also changed her story about the entire event. We waited for my dad to come back in with us, knowing that there was less of a chance of her to start anything with an adult around. My father went in with us and waited for the lady to come up to us. My father asked "so i believe something happened here?" and to that the girl started laughing very hard and said "Oh my God, no. it was just a mistake." my dad said "Oh so you accusing them and only them, out of everyone else in the store, causing a scene, and cursing at them was a mistake?" She started backing away from him and fake crying, as if he was trying to kill her, or something, when he remained completly calm. The lady then said she shows the packages to every kid that goes into the store. Then she said she never asked us. Then she said she asked us but never accused us of stealing. I was getting pretty angry and all I asked was "Why the hell do you keep changing your story...?" and to that she screamed at me "If you're going to use profanity in my store, I'm calling security." (From the same lady who told us to "Get the f*** out.) So we went to security ourselves to file a complaint. I truly believe she didn't handle it professionally. She Put my friend and I through a lot of emotional distress. She also lied repetitively. She threatened to kick my dad out of the store for absolutely no reason. She had no proof that we had taken the items; we weren’t even near the items in the store. I feel that she was discriminating against us because she didn’t accuse anyone else of stealing and many people were in the store, especially around the areas my friend and I were in. Do you think she handled it well? Is there any legal action we can take against her?

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    Default Re: Wrongly Accused of Shoplifting

    Obviously she didn't handle it well.

    If you pay a lawyer thousands of dollars to sue her, you may even recover a buck or two.

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