When violence is used for a petty crime, people are not responding to the petty crime, they are responding to the violence.
I remember this, it's not a new story. The family tried to make it out like he was shot over what he was stealing, rather than in response to violence.
In another recent story, a woman was caught shoplifting, an tried to run a cop over in her attempt to flee. So, the vehicle was shot at, and she died. Her family tried to make it about the items she stole, and not the fact she literally tried to kill a cop with her car.
