John....FYI!! Of course they are going to blame Alcohol....how else can they justify tackling a 60 year old mentally challenged man with Parkinsons disease, down to the ground when he did nothing wrong. Getting arrested for armed robbery for holding a bullet to rob a store???? Get real, even my 4 year old grandson would laugh at that one. Everyone in that area knows him and knows about his mental issues...its just another way for the courts to squeeze more money out of taxpayers and to make that area of town look worse. And of course the Security Guard probably feels like a hero...pfttttttttttttt

For you morons that get off on making fun of others...Karma will come back to get you one day. Verlin is mentally ill and if you'll read the article you will see that the cashier was "unfazed" by it, yet a big bad security officer felt the need to tackle him to the ground after he left the store when ask too without harming anyone or taking anything. He is a kind sweet man who has had a very hard life (he watched his dad shoot and kill his mother when he was about 6 years old) so please before you judge a man who obviously has mental issues....stop and think for the love of God!! He could be your dad or uncle or friend....he has been diagnosed with Paranoid Scizophrenia and has to deal with it because our government could care less about our mentally ill citizens. He tries to make people laugh even though he is dealing with the demons in his head and she knows him and knows he is harmless. If she had been afraid she would have called the cops....he put up no resistance when she told him to leave. He ask his court appointed attorney why he was in jail...he had no Idea why he was tackled to the ground. Seriously? The people who have charged him with armed robbery need a psych evaluation....he just needs understanding and medication to help him. I hope you all sleep well and feel proud of yourselves for the laughs you got out of it. And we wonder why children are bullies at school....they get it naturally.