The following is regarding a profoundly disturbing incident that happened to me in the Arlington, Virginia, Whole Foods store between approximately 8:00 and 8:20 p.m. on the evening of March 11, 2007.  It is repetitive in some places, and highly emotional (I am highly emotional about what was done to me and Whole Foods' getting away with it), but I have very limited access to a computer at the Arlington County Library, and it would take me a significant amount of time to edit all repetitions.  

I would like to see what was done to me at the Arlington, VA, Whole foods store at the hands of two Whole Foods' employees shared with the public, if possible, through sharing it with the media.  

My situation is regarding a ruthless, grossly negligent, malicious personal and social injury, and degredation sustained by me at the hands of two Whole Foods Market, Inc., ruthless employees in the Arlington, Virginia, Whole Foods store, for which Whole Foods Market, Inc., is legally liable and refuses to acknowledge to.  An exceedingly disturbing and serious incident (it is to me) happened to me is a personal injury case of gross negligence and defamation of my character.  I was intentionally, brazenly and negligently terrorized and harmed by two Whole Foods employees in the Whole Foods store in Arlington, Virginia, while I was shopping in the store on the evening of March 11, 2007.  What was done to me by two Whole Foods employees in the store was very violent in nature and has caused substantial injury and immense distress to me.  

I was threateningly approached and falsely accused, very publicly and openly, of an intensely disturbing and slanderous untruth by an employee in the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store while in the store on the evening indicated above, and ordered immediately from the store.  What I was falsely accused of was having been ordered to leave the store on different occasions in the past.  My natural instinct was to say in response, because the employee's negligent accusation of me was not true, that I had never been told to leave the store ever in the past and tried to convey I had no knowledge of the incidents the employee was referring to.  I felt instinctively to try to resolve the openly declared false allegation and statement of me; it was my natural response and the correct thing for me to do.  My attempts to assert my innocence of the false statement and allegation just made of me by the employee to both malicious and hostile Whole Foods' employees I was encountering was met by brutal bullying of me by them, and with intimidating disdain and dismissal of anything I tried to say to them about my innocence and my unawareness of the incidents alluded to in the false accusation just made of me.  Both employees consistently replied to me by threatening instructing me to immediately leave the store premises.  Upon my repeated assertions of my innocence to the two Whole Foods' employees of the boldly and publicly declared false allegation just made of me, they became increasingly vicious toward me, completely dismissing me and repeatedly demanding that I immediately leave the store.  After my repeated requests to them to contact the head store manager on duty so I may speak with him about what had just happened to me in the store, they completely refused to do so, so that I was absolutely denied the right to address that manager.  Likewise, I was completely ignored when I repeatedly asked the two employees why they would not check existing store records of the alluded to store incidents I had just been falsely accused of being the subject of, incidents I had absolutely no knowledge of, so it could be seen by them that I was not the person involved in those incidents.  I was forced to leave the store premises while being observed by many witnesses under a very heavy cloud of profoundly presumed guilt and my identity very badly publicly smeared.  I am forced to carry with me, that others' perception of me as suspect is going to remain, as the Whole Foods' employees, and the cops, as shown through their intimidating and apathetic behavior toward me, wanted it.

I was not under the influence of any substance, I am not a drinker and don't use illicit drugs, nor was I behaving in a suspicious or strange way in the store and had no intention to do so.  

I sincerely have never, ever been told or ordered to leave that Whole Foods store, or any other, for any reason on any occasion previous to the evening of the horrific incident which I endured.  I did not, nor have I ever, behaved in a questionable or strange manner in the store.  I have never caused any kind of disturbance or problem in the store, I have never behaved in an inappropriate way while in the store, I have never bothered anyone in any way while in the store, I have never done any kind of wrong in that store, nor have I ever been approached by any employee or manager of Whole Foods, instructed to go or leave, for any reason, ever, and I have always meant to be only polite to others while in the store.  On the evening of the incident, I had not physically gone very near to, or touched, any of the products/items displayed on the store shelves.  I always try to be very, very conscious of my movements while I am in stores to protect myself from others wrongly viewing my actions as being suspicious in nature.  If the alluded to past store incidents, which the accusing Whole Foods' employee falsely accused me of being the subject of, actually occurred, it was someone else who was the subject of those incidents, not myself.  I have no knowledge of the alluded to past store incidents which I was libelously irresponsibly falsely accused of being the subject of , in a frantic approach, and which was falsely and decisively maintained as the truth in regard to me, by both the Whole Foods' employees.  If the police were involved in the alluded to past store incidents which I was publicly falsely declared the subject of by a Whole Foods' employee, the police would have the records documenting those incidents, and those records would show I was definitely not the person involved in those incidents. I have never gone into a store harboring wrong intentions.   I have never shoplifted, nor have I ever attempted to.

I also did not raise my voice or become emotionally out of control or overly upset, use any profanity while in the store or threaten anyone in any way.  Any assertion on the part of Whole Foods that I was "upset" "overly upset" or "too upset" to be listened to, or too unacceptable to be in the store, is a convenient and very sneaky lie.  I was very conscious that if I became "out of control," or appeared "out of control," would be incredibly detrimental to me.  From the beginning of the time I was accosted and libelously defamed by being falsely accused by a Whole Foods' employee in the store, I spoke with civility and gentility, very careful not to show a threatening manner or hostility to the employee, in my reply to the slanderous false statement he just made of me.  I tried to communicate my innocence of his false allegation in a way that could resolve it with no difficulty.  He was not receptive to my assertions to him that he was mistaken, and I was.

I do wonder, though, if this would have ever happened to me had I pulled my coat hood off of my head upon entering the Whole Foods store.  I kept my hood on because my hair felt fairly sweaty and I only intended to be in the Whole Foods store for a very short time.  The accusing employee could have viewed me as trying to conceal my face/identity by wearing a hood over my head.  Yet, when I walked through the same store aisle in which he was stocking items using a ladder, I didn't attempt to conceal my presence from anyone.  I saw the accusing employee stocking in the aisle, and was aware he was an employee, and I said "excuse me" very audibly to be considerate of other customers in that aisle when I was walking by them so that they would be aware not to back up and bump into me.  This showed that I was not at all concerned that any store employee may be aware of my presence in the store.  

I wrote a letter of concern regarding the incident that happened to me in their store on the evening indicated addressed to the CEO of the Whole Foods corporation and a member of their board of directors dated April 12, 2007, which took a month for me to complete.  I did not state anything in my letter that could be in any way implied as a threat to Whole Foods or its employees.  I also e:mailed the letter to both of the addressees of the letter, Whole Foods' headquarters, the Whole Foods store where the incident happened (as a "heads up" to them about what I had just submitted to the CEO ), and to a blog maintained by the CEO of Whole Foods.  I have been told by someone knowledgeable that I probably will not receive a response to my letter or e:mails from Whole Foods at all.  I wanted to wait to receive a response to my letter to Whole Foods CEO regarding the incident that happened in their store on the evening indicated before I attempted to pursue the unjustifiable, aggressive, and threatening actions intended and directed toward me by their two Whole Foods employees in their store on that evening.   

I have not received a reply from Whole Foods at all.  The CEO (I have read some recent news articles regarding him which stated he is being investigated by  people for business ethics violations) has made it pretty clear to me that they he is not responding to my letter in any way, nor addressing the incident at all.  Whole Foods Market, Inc., prefers to be silent and unaccountable regarding the terrorizing incident I suffered at the hands of its employees in its store.  If Whole Foods apologizes to me, it could open them up to a lawsuit.  In his refusal to respond to my letter to him, the Whole Foods CEO is telling me to go away.  There is no concern that I was forced from the store premises, on the evening indicated, being alleged and heavily presumed to be, by the two Whole Foods' employees who had just abused and terrorized me be inside of the store, other Whole Foods employees and members of the community who witnessed the incident, and the police who came to the scene, that I was guilty of the false allegation and statement that had just been made of me.  

I had stated to the two Whole Foods' employees mistreating me in the store at one point during the incident, that I wanted the police to be called because the employees were refusing to listen to me regarding my being innocent of the false allegation that one of them had just made of me, and refused my repeated requests to them to contact the head store manager on duty so I could address him about the horrendously distressing matter  that had just happened to me in the store at the hands of his employees.  I was still in the store waiting to speak with the head manager on duty when one of the employees began to place a call on a cell phone.  I was unsure if she was finally contacting the head store manager on duty, or the police.  I determined she had called 911.  I also called 911 at that time on my cell phone, as the employee using the cell phone was very slyly depicting the situation to the 911 dispatcher, as my being a trespasser and offender in the store, completely omitting that I was asserting my innocence of a false allegation just made of me by a Whole Foods employee in the store.  I wanted a 911 record addressing my distress at what had just been done to me in the store, and what, subsequently, was happening to me at the hands of the Whole Foods employees because of my trying to address my innocence to those employees of the false allegation just made of me by one of them, and to state that I was in need of assistance.  I walked out of the store to wait outside for the police to arrive immediately following the 911 call I made.  The two Whole Foods' employees who victimized me in the store, and witnesses to the incident, apparently followed me. 

When I saw the police car pull into the store parking lot, I walked up to the passenger side of the car and the cop in the passenger seat rolled his window down to hear me.  I went up to the police car as soon as I could, before the Whole Foods employees could begin to talk to the cops, because I was instinctively very afraid I would not be given an opportunity to address what actually was just done to me because of the fact I may have continued to be victimized by others' refusing to allow me to speak (i.e., they may have ignored me as if I were not speaking, cut my speech off,  and speak loudly over me so I could not be heard).  There was no way I was going to get away with interrupting the cop or who he was talking with.  It would be very much to my detriment.  

When the cops got out of their car, the cop from the passenger side addressed the two employees who abused me in the store (he was the cop that did all of the talking for both of the cops who arrived).  He then turned to address me and very strangely, loudly declared to me, "You deal with HHS on a regular basis."  ("HHS" stands for Arlington County Health and Human Services.)  This cop didn't know me at all.  I already felt very  intimidated by him.  He then began, loudly, asking me several highly personal questions.  I didn't feel it was appropriate of him to ask me specific personal questions; I questioned his motivation for asking such personal questions of me (not verbally), and his doing it so  publicly, in the presence of many witnesses in the community who were watching and listening intently.  I asked the cop, by subtly interjecting, immediately following his second inquiry to me of where I lived, my responding to the question again, his then instantaneous inquiry of me of who I lived with, and giving my response to this, the question of, "Why?" (such as, why he wanted to know what medication I was on [why did he have to know?] and why he wanted to know who I lived with [why did he have to know?].  I replied hesitantly to the questions he asked me –he randomly repeated to me his question of where I lived.  When I stated I lived by myself, he appeared astonished).  I wanted him say why he was asking so many uncalled for and out‑of‑place personal questions of me in front of so many witnesses in the community present.  After I asked him the general question of, "Why?," he cynically and loudly stated to me, "Because I'm doing an investigation."  He then promptly interjected a strange male name directed at me for response.  Whoa!  What was that?! I was perplexed and stunned about what his reason could be for very bizarrely referencing a strange male name to me for response, and replied by saying to him, "I don't know who that person is."  He had thrown out the name of a strange person directly at me, desiring and expecting, a response to the stated name from me.  What he had done in doing this, was to see if he could possibly obtain information from me regarding the person whose name he referenced and directed at me for a response in regard to his indicated "investigation he was doing."  I had just been so incredibly abused and victimized in front of so many people inside of the Whole Foods store by the two Whole Foods' employees, and this cop did this to me in the incredibly traumatized and vulnerable state I was in, showing no concern for what just happened to me inside of the store, how distressed I was, or that I was innocent of the negligent and horribly false allegation that was just made of me.  This in front of a large and very attentive public audience.  

His referencing a strange male name directly to me for a response did not apply in any way to the matter at hand.  You needed to be there, and to have been very attentive to his behavior and statements, to know/feel the bearing of what he actually did.  The cop did not state a reason why he wanted my response to his reference of the strange male name.  I was left to figure this out myself.  The only thing that has come to me of why he stated the name of a stranger with a male name directly to me, and wanted (and expected) a response to it from me, was that the person whose name he referenced, had something to do with the "investigation he was doing," which he had brought up to me (and, to me directly), and which had nothing whatsoever to do with the situation at hand.  The cop stated the name of the strange person he referenced to me, as being, "Peter ?."  I did not get what he stated the last name of the person was.  

I also was perplexed regarding his coercing/intimidating answers from me about very personal subject matter, why did he have to know specific personal information, and why did he make my personal information something to be shared with everyone present. 

For what particular reason did he directly reference to me a strange male name for my response to this reference?  For what particular reason was the personal information he requested of me? 
 

He was trying to use me as a possible information provider to him in regard to "the investigation he was doing" (an "investigation" which had nothing at all to do with me, or what was just done to me in the Whole Foods store, or what was happening there, in front of the Whole Foods store).  The person whose name the cop referenced, directly to me for response to him, may in some way be associated with HHS (Arlington County Health and Human Services), as the cop had previously declared his assumption of my association with Arlington County HHS.  He seemed to be attempting to find out from me if I knew of the male person whose name he referenced to me.  He seemed convinced his assumption of me as being associated with Arlington County HHS, was correct, and indicated this to me, and to the witnesses crowded around the vicinity watching, by his loudly making his declaration of this assumption of me.   

He gave the impression his intent was to display to me and members of the public present, what a "pro" and a "natural" he was at being a police officer, and how adept he was at "handling" me.  It appeared he was seeking to prove to all present, his incredible competence and expertise in performing police work, aiming to impress those witnessing the incident.  

The cop wanted it to show how powerful he was to all present.  He had a very seriously real and extreme disregard for me, and was extremely cruel to me.  He consciously intended to intimidate and frighten me and cruelly publicly demean and humiliate me.   He wanted me to feel threatened enough by him to readily provide him with very personal information.  He wanted to display how he could force me to go along with whatever he decided.  I saw he was very eager that he had found me a vulnerable enough person (myself) who he could readily treat as a criminal. 
 

I believe that no one else who was present, the other cop who arrived on the scene nor the Whole Foods' employees will acknowledge that the cop addressed me bizarrely directly referenced a strange male name to me for my response to it.  The claim of denying he did this, by the others who were there, saying he did not do it or that they conveniently "did not hear it," will likely be made by those people.   I have worked on a draft letter of complaint to the police department about the cop who did this.  In the letter, which I intend to submit in its final version to the police department, I have stated the fact that the cop who addressed me and bizarrely referenced "the investigation he was doing," which clearly had nothing to do with me, what was just done to me inside of the Whole Foods by two barbaric Whole Foods' employees, or what was going on then in front of the Whole Foods store, as the cop instantaneously bizarrely referenced a strange male name directly to me for my response to him, following his statement to me that he "was doing an investigation."  I believe that the police department may likely try to say any number of slick things to defend that cop and what he said to me, like I "misunderstood" the cop in his reference to "the investigation he was doing," indicating he was referring only to the matter at hand when he said that.  No, he was not referring to the matter at hand at all, he definitely was referencing an "investigation he was doing" that was in no way related to the matter at hand and what had just happened to me at the hands of the Whole Foods' employees in the Whole Foods store.  In no way was that cop's reference to "the investigation he was doing" related to what had just happened to me or what was happening there at that time in front of the Whole Foods store.   

In regard to the cop's directly referencing to me a strange male name for my response to it, instantaneously following his reference to "the investigation he was doing," the police department may claim that I am confused about what he meant in doing it.  I am not confused at all by what he meant in his referencing a strange male name directly to me for my response.  The reference the cop made directly to me about "the investigation he was doing" and the reference he made, instantaneously following it, to the strange male name directly at me for response to it, were immediately related to, and intertwined with, the other.  He was trying to see if I would respond to his reference of the male name by stating to him that I knew of the person.  The police department will likely say they have no record of the cop making those bizarre statements, about "the investigation he was doing" and the reference of the strange male name, to me in the police report.  Of course they have no record of it, the police conveniently omit any bizarre behavior or speech on their part from police reports, making it so that no bizarre police behavior ever occurred.  The police department will probably have "no comment" to that cop's behavior towards me, other than it doesn't appear in the police report and, therefore, it didn't happened.  

The police department will want to defend the cop's "honor" and "highly respected reputation," by portraying the situation in a favorable manner toward the cop and will  likely spin, spin, spin in his defense.   

I know that if I were an Arlington County cop (albeit, undesired) and behaved with the same perplexing, bizarre behavior towards a member, or members, of the public as the subject cop at the scene of the Whole Foods incident did, mortifying any other cops present, and the police department with my bizarre and inappropriate behavior towards the public, I would be considered unfit to carry a weapon or to interact with the public, representing the police department in the community.  I would be considered abnormal in my interactions with members of the community, mentally unstable and emotionally disturbed.  My intelligence level would be believed to be in conflict with in my ability to meet my job requirements.  Severe personnel action would be taken in regard to me and I would be psychologically examined.  Of course, it would be the police department's desire to have me removed from the police force.   I know, if I behaved in the same way as the cop at the scene of the incident did toward me, other officers would definitely report me (I do not have the intimidation factor that the cop who acted bizarrely toward me does, which seems to very likely affect other cops in his presence, making them feel afraid and forbidden from reporting his out‑of‑place, bizarre behavior toward members of the public to his superiors).  Complaints would be made about my bizarre behavior by members of the public.  Other officers would not want to work with me, and refuse, if it was their right.  If I had ever witnessed a cop behaving in the exact manner toward a member of the public as the cop at the scene of the Whole Foods store did on the evening indicated, I would have seen that that cop's behavior was bizarre and inappropriate, that he was mistreating a member of the public.   

Had this cop arrived on the scene, and it had been his wife, parent, or teenage or grown child who was trying to assert that they were innocent of a false allegation just made of them by a Whole Foods' employee inside of the Whole Foods store, his tune would have been very different.  He would not have been a "yes man" to the two Whole Foods' employees attempting to make a conquest by incontestably maintaining the guilt of his wrongly accused family member.  The cop would have demanded to speak with the head store manager on duty and would tell that store manager to retrieve the store records of the "alluded to" past store incidents his family member had just been accused of being the subject of by a Whole Foods' employee in the Whole Foods store.  In so doing, it would have been seen by all, that his family member was definitely not the same person involved in "alluded to" past store incidents, as they had been falsely accused of being.  There would have been a very different outcome to the incident.  I do not believe it would have stopped there for this cop.  I believe he would strongly desire strongly to take the issue further and attempt to file a legal complaint against Whole Foods for reparation to his falsely accused family member for the grossly neglectful, very wrong vicious actions done to them by Whole Foods employees in the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store on that evening.  

The incredible intimidation factor that the male cop, who exhibited very inappropriate bizarre behavior towards me, has, acts as an incredibly protective safeguard for him and would inhibit his fellow officers from reporting (preventing their being concerned enough about it, being more conflicted and concerned about the consequences of their doing so) the cop's incredibly bizarre and out‑of‑place behavior in interacting with a member(s) of the public, as they would very likely feel they would be committing a "forbidden act" against the cop who behaved with bizarre behavior in interacting with a member(s) of the public.  They would not want to humiliate that cop in front of his superiors and other cops on the police force, by reporting what they had identified as bizarre behavior by him in interacting with members of the public.  Doing so could make other cops, who find out about his strange behavior, become rejecting of him.  I saw that the other cop who also arrived on the scene, and who did none of the talking, but seemed to be writing things down, was very, very, very intimidated by the cop who very bizarrely interacted with me.  The intimidation factor was so extreme in this case, that I perceived a very visible and certain intention by the quiet cop to not to get involved in any way – not to write down his fellow cop's very strange statements and behavior that he demonstrated towards me (the victim of this incident), and to not "tell on" or report the cop's bizarre behavior toward me to superiors or to not likely describe the bizarre cop's behavior to any other cop who was there.  Through his non-interference of, and deference to, his fellow cop's peculiar behavior towards me throughout the incident, he was giving a depiction of the cop to the public that was present, that represented him as being very highly respected and highly professional police officer, and deserving of the highest respect of everyone.  The cop's exhibiting of the bizarre behavior he did towards me throughout in the incident in front of the Whole Foods store, would have definitely mortified nearly any other cop present who was representing the police department.  Another factor in the "quiet cop's" likely refusal to acknowledge his fellow cop's bizarre behavior towards me throughout the incident, was his applying my degrading and wrong treatment by his fellow cop to the insignificance of my importance (as represented by his fellow cop) in regard to the incident.

The cop saw me, and obviously felt permitted to regard me with minimal significance, and became extremely predatory of me, forcefully casting me in an extremely negative  light, effectively degradating and mortifying me in public, which I felt and identified, and that frustrated and enraged me.  When I witnessed his friendly, good treatment and generous consideration of the two Whole Food's employees who had just victimized me inside of the Whole Foods store, I felt upset all the more so at seeing the cop's good treatment of them.  The cop displayed an intention at the scene of the conflict to keep me shut up about any detail of the store incident that I wanted to address, and which I wanted the cop to address to the two Whole Foods' employees, though, I knew not to interrupt the cop or anyone speaking to him.  It would have been extremely detrimental for me to do so.  

I was cut off in speech, completely ignored, and loudly spoken over by others when I made attempts to address the questions of why the Whole Foods' employees refused to check existing store records of the alluded to past store incidents I was accused of being the subject of, and why they would not contact the head store manager on duty so I could address to that store manager my just having been falsely accused by an employee in the store, to attempt to rectify the false allegation of me.  I attempted to address these significant details regarding the incident, which had just occurred inside of the store, when I distinguished that I may have found the scarce opportunity to do so.  However, when I spoke, I as not responded to by anyone.  The cop was, through his behavior, affecting that I not be paid attention to, which was to forcefully intimidate me.  

The cop who had behaved in such an incredibly disturbingly manner towards me, preyed  on, and re‑victimized me through his statements and behavior.  He took advantage of my very troubled and distressful state, socially injuring me in his secondary victimization of me, and by the other cop who kept completely quiet throughout the incident involving both of them, in the front of the Whole Foods store.  The cop was showing me, and all witnessing the incident, that what I regarded to be of extreme importance regarding specific issues of the store incident, were not important enough for him to give attention to.  He showed that my attempting to have the false allegation, made of me by a Whole Foods employee inside of the store, rectified, did not matter.  He had a definite, and deep, lack of concern for my having a chance to have the false allegation just made of me, as being a suspect store trespasser and previous store offender, rectified and resolved.  In his disregard of me, the cop would not request to speak with the head store manager on duty, or to ask the two Whole Foods employees why they had not contacted the head store manager on duty to inform him of the very disturbing and serious situation, and ignored that there were likely store records of the alluded to past store incidents, and refused to ask the Whole Foods' employees why they would not check those records, as I had asked repeatedly of them, or why they had refused to contact the head store manager on duty, as I had requested of them again and again, in an attempt to pursue the actuality of the truth of my assertions of my innocence of the false allegation being held against me.  To check those records would have been a way to see that I was not the same person involved in those incidents, as I had been wrongly accused of being.

The cop's rejection of my assertions of my innocence of the false allegation made of me, insinuated he was upholding that the contrary of my assertions was factual – to stand as true, refusing to acknowledge my assertion.  He showed his chosen preference, withholding his allowance to pursue the validation of my assertions of my innocence of the false allegation made of me, showing it was not his desire to do so, rejecting and disallowing my assertions of my innocence.  He intended that there be no effort made to attain rectification of the false allegation made of me.  The validity of my assertions of my innocence would not be sought, indicating my insignificance and the irrelevance of the of what was just violently done to me by the Whole Foods employees inside of the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store.  The cop's deliberate denial of my being given the opportunity to have my assertions of my innocence pursued, so that the false allegation just made of me by the Whole Foods' employee could be rectified was as an intentional act. 

The two subject Whole Foods' employees were extremely negligent, indifferent employees who very negligently, slickly, selfishly victimized me just for my trying to convey to them my innocence of a false allegation just made of me by one of them inside of the Whole Food' store.  

The cop displayed a very personal and visible cynicism and foul disrespect for me.   He was very permissive of himself regarding his lack of regard for me, and displayed extremely disturbing behavior towards me.  

His aversion of me was obvious, though, he exuded consistent and intense empathy and regard for the Whole Food's employees.  He sickly and eagerly preyed on me, anxiously wanting to take advantage of my vulnerable and defenseless state to demean me.  He aggressively attempted to depict me in an unfavorable light to the public audience surrounding the scene of the conflict.  That cop chose to put on a dramatic fault-finding exhibit of me, to show me, in front of the witnesses present, in an unflattering way which intimated his denunciation me as a member of the community. 

The cop's sentiment of me appeared to be that the quality of my treatment by him mustn't be as precisely on par with that of the two Whole Foods' employees', who he consistently deferred to, coddled, and interacted with as though they all identified, and had a comrade‑like feeling towards each other.  A mob mentality had developed between the cop and the two offending employees, they hearded together preserving the alliance that had developed between them.  

The cop would not put a light on the fact that my assertion of my innocence of the false allegation made against me was very vehement and unrelenting, and that I (the accused) had raised the issue of the two Whole Foods' employees checking existing store records related to the alluded to past store incidents I had just been accused by one of the employees as being the subject of  to see that I was not the same person involved in those incidents, yet my assertion of my innocence would not even be considered by the two Whole Foods' employees.   Nor would the cop address that there was the absolute refusal by the two employees to contact the head store manager on duty regarding the incident.  The cop would not place a light on these issues, and request an explanation from the employees as to why they had so completely refused to even consider undertaking the above‑mentioned actions to attempt to validate my assertion of my innocence of the false allegation being made of me.  Anything I attempted to address to the cops, or the two offending employees, regarding the above‑mentioned issues was intentionally ignored and completely disregarded. 

I saw the cop display extreme partiality toward the two Whole Foods' employees.  He did so in regard to protecting the employees from the prospect of proceeding toward the possible revelation of the validity of my contention of my innocence of the false allegation being made of me, done through checking the store records related to the alluded to incidents, and involving the head store manager on duty in the situation. 

He acted with concern for the two Whole Foods' employees in regard to the chance that they could being revealed as being completely wrong in maintaining their claim of my guilt of the false allegation made of me, after what they did to me inside of the store.  Acknowledging the employee's reputations' being protected as very, very serious.

The cop who had displayed bizarre behavior towards me, furthered abusive behavior towards me (the victim), behaving in a buddy- like way toward the accusing Whole Foods employee.  By showing his support of the offending employees, he empowered them at my expense (the victim's expense), denying me support, understanding, and concern throughout the incident.

In the face of my extreme distress regarding what I said had just been done to me by the two Whole Foods' employees inside the Whole Foods store, asserting that I had just been falsely accused and my maintaining my innocence of the false allegation, the cop willfully and knowingly recoiled from it.  He characterized it as being of slight importance, not serious, but dismissive.  I was not regarded of being of importance by him and the two offending employees, in contrast to the two offending employees' whose importance was considered of very, very high regard.  The cop acted very concerned for showing his concern and support of the two offending Whole Foods' employees to the public in attendance, as if it were very important for him to show his support for them, and to not do so for me.  

The cop regarded me and my distress as a joke, which was so clear from his displaying of his behavior towards me, and just like the two offending Whole Foods employees,  refused to "put up" with me and my concern over what was just done to me by the two Whole Foods' employees inside of the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store.  

The cop acted like his showing his support of the two offending Whole Foods' employees' position regarding me was very, very important, and that showing my unimportance was essential, as if being very satisfied to display his shunning me.  

The cop treated the two Whole Foods' employees with a lot of respect, partiality, and equality, and used his "power" to entirely dismiss my assertion of my innocence of being the subject of the alluded to past store incidents, and my requests that the store records related to the alluded to past store incidents, be checked, to reveal the validation of my assertion.  He seemed to have raised a shield, to guard the employees (to save face) from incredible public embarrassment and disapproval, if it were to be revealed there that they were entirely wrong, and my assertion of my innocence was true.  It was as though he was trying to satisfy and please the two Whole Foods' employees by defending their accusation of me.

I saw the cop was fond of being aggressive, insensitive, and intimidating to produce fear in those he encounters who could just be mistaken for a possible distrustful character, and when he encountered me, someone he deemed as of a lower class, maybe destitute, he was able to treat me as such, when in reality, he just wanted me to be.  

It appeared as though the cop was retaliating against me, penalizing me, giving me "my proper due," in his dismissing my assertion of my innocence, for the dislike held by the two offending Whole Foods' employees of my contesting their sustaining their allegation of my guilt of the false allegation and, for very unwantedly presenting an unsettling and intimidating threat to the employees' reputation.  The cop already had appeared to attempt to show me to all persons witnessing the incident as being of questionable character, low social value, speculative credibility, and an undesirable kind, in his eyes, and that pursuing the legitimacy of my assertion of my innocence to rectify the false allegation made of me, was not important enough–he did not want it indicated as being  important – my worthiness and the significance of my contention of my  innocence, were not sufficient to be the cause for the two Whole Foods' employees possibly encountering incredible humiliation by being shown as being wrong in this situation, if the validity of my contention of innocence was pursued through checking the related store records.   It was deemed I was not of enough worth to the cop and the two offending Whole Foods' employees that for the validity of my assertion of my innocence to be pursued.  The cop completely denied my contention of my innocence, implying his preference was that the opposite of my contention be represented, and maintained, as truth.

In his disturbing ignorance of me, the cop would not address the fact that there would be police records of the specific alluded to past Whole Foods store incidents that I was being accused of being the subject of, if the police had been involved in those incidents.  As he was ensuring that nothing would be done to pursue my assertion that I was innocent of the false allegation that had been made of me.  

He continued to ignore my attempts to address to him and the Whole Foods' employees the questions of, "why won't you check the records?"  "Why?," and "Why won't you call the head store manager on duty?"  It was the cop's intention to hold me back from speaking of the specific critical details of what just happened to me at the hands of the two Whole Foods' employees in the Whole Foods store.  

The cop whose behavior was so bizarre towards me, truly appeared to promote the Whole Foods' employees' position of maintaining my guilt of the accusation made of me.  I felt the cop cared very much for having that opportunity to deliberately, self‑interestedly, and amusingly single me out, turn the spotlight on me, and go through my personal matters with a fine‑tooth comb, in front of the public gathering, without regard to my extremely distressed state and the intimidation, discomfort, and humiliation he was producing in me, to attempt to reduce me/bring me down, stigmatize, and publicly distinguish me and my social condition and level as destitute, of questionable character, peculiar, abnormal, problematic, uneducated, unstable, inept, and anything to depict me as financially needy and someone who possibly engaged in risky behavior because of this.  He seemed to want to "reveal" me to the others witnessing the incident, and to display to me, and everyone else present that, he was such a "pro," he "knew" what kind of a person I actually was.  He did so as a way for him to reason to the witnesses gathered around, that they could almost certainly form their opinions of disapproval and suspicion of me.  He appeared to want his regard of me to appear to be in alliance with the Whole Foods' employees', who were maintaining their representation of me as a suspect offender, trespassing in the Whole Foods store. 

The cop appeared to be disheartened and conflicted in having to consider my innocence as actual, and the Whole Foods' employees' maintaining their assumption of my guilt of the false allegation of me as incorrect.  The representation of me, presented to all witnesses, was that my assertion of my innocence of the false allegation made of me would not be recognized as credible, and I was forced from the store premises with inexpressible humiliation and branded with the powerfully degrading stigma of being a suspicious trespasser and store offender.  

In conveying to me that any more communication with me was being terminated, the cop stated to me, "Here's the way it is, …"  He said the Whole Foods' employees decide who is welcome to shop in their store to shop, and that they had said I am not welcome in there.  Insistent on putting an end to the issue, the cop inquired to the very, very convincing (and influential to the cop) accusing Whole Foods' employee, buddy‑like in his manner, if there was any doubt at all that I was the person involved in the "alluded to" past store incidents.  The accusing employee replied that there was "absolutely no doubt at all."  The accusing Whole Foods' employee wanted so much for me to be "her," the subject of past store incidents in which the subject had apparently been told to leave the store by store management.  In the accusing Whole Foods' employee's strong opinion, I fit a profile, the "subject's" profile, and he would not accept the prospect of my not really being her.  The store records related to the alluded to past store incidents, were not going to be checked and the cop would not modify his bias towards the two offending employees to inquire to them why those store records could not be checked to attempt to validate my assertion that I did not have the same identity as the "subject" female.  It was indescribably difficult for me.  

I was deceived and cheated, and completely taken advantage of, like the cops had just pulled a fast one on me.  I wanted an answer regarding why no one would contact the head store manager to make him aware of the conflict and why no one would check the store records to attempt to validate that my identity did not match the subject's, who allegedly was involved in past store incidents.  I had done absolutely nothing wrong in the Whole Foods store.

Throughout the incident, I was far pressed into frustration and anguish, having been so wrongly abused, being calculatingly prohibited from pursuit of the validation of my assertion of my innocence, and so,  having to defer to the offending Whole Foods' employees' maintaining I was believed to be an actual  trespassing store offender.  After my being so deliberately intimidated, so far into a voiceless submission, totally rebuffed and rejected, intimating, to all present, my irrelevance, on impulse, I raged out loud, making a statement that alluded to it (the incident – what was done to me throughout the incident) as being a pile of s _ _ _, in reaction to the cop's taunting of me with his marked biased conduct towards the offending Whole Foods' employees.  I also said to him that he was a "rude cop," as he really was.  I had a natural external reaction from the high level of adrenalin rushing through me, that was quickly produced by the traumatic shock and distress and extremely high tension level I was subjected to from the conflict.  I unsurprisingly lashed out at my tormentors, as an animal would, when pressed far enough into their absolute sadistic subjugation, as I was.  

The cop told me to "go home," as his intention was to expectedly remain at the scene as I left the premises, and converse with the offending Whole Foods' employees about their impressions/opinions of me. 

Whole Foods' CEO is being slick, displaying ruthless greed and selfishness in his desire to refuse Whole Foods' acknowledgment of what was done to me by the two Whole Foods' employees in the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods' store on the evening indicated. 

I cannot attempt to go into the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store to shop now because of what might happen to me.  I am unable and afraid to go into that Whole Foods store to shop, I don't want to think of what might happen to me if I do and, I am, as an effect of the store incident I was forced to experience, frightened to go into any other Whole Foods store in the area because there are many Whole Foods' employees and members of the community who witnessed the incident of that evening, and any one of those employees could currently be working at another area Whole Foods, as well as there being members of the community who witnessed the incident, who also shop at different area Whole Foods stores.  If I were to be spotted in any of the Whole Foods stores by any witnesses to the incident of that evening, I am fearful something very threatening and humiliating to me could occur.  Any witness to the incident who might see me in a Whole Foods store, could decide to go to that stores' management to identify me to them as a suspicious person banned from the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods establishment.  If I ever am able to go into the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store to shop again, I would have to have a written apology from Whole Foods Market, Inc., stating its management's permission for me to shop in that Whole Foods store, and carry it with me, so I will not be afraid of being inside of the store.  My considered status by the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods establishment is as an undesirable suspicious offender who has been banned from entrance to the store. 

In his refusal address what was done to me in that evening's incident, Whole Foods CEO is implying I will remain in the status of an undesirable person by the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods' establishment, banned from entering the store, alleged to be a suspicious store offender and he is not concerned that I cannot shop in the Whole Foods store again and that is likely assumed, by employees and customers who witnessed the incident, that I am a recognized store trespasser and suspicious offender.  He has conveyed to me and to the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods' management that  I am insignificant and do not matter to him and his company, and the vicious battering I endured in his store at the hands of his highly malicious, exploitive, incautious, very, very slick employees is of no  relevance.  He doesn't want Whole Foods Market, Inc., hurt or its reputation stained by the shady actions of his employees in this incident.  It is fine with him, though, that his two Whole Foods' employees so freely and severely bullied and demeaned me, after very forcefully and publicly falsely accusing me. The decent standing of my character and conduct as a citizen of the community were so negligently publicly tainted and smeared.  I was grossly, negligently, and underhandedly bullied, and unbelievably harmed by two very unrestrained, malicious, and ruthless Whole Foods' employees in his store because I only tried to defend myself by relaying my innocence of a public declaration of an irresponsible and false statement and allegation of me by one of those employees, and the uncontested support of this falsehood by his fellow employee, who appearing at the scene of the conflict, following the false allegation being made of me, was seeming to represent herself in a managerial position, although I had no substantiation of what kind of employee she was, I was not introduced or informed of what kind of employee she was.   The head store manager on duty, I had beforehand overheard another employee, who was posted behind the customer service counter, state, was a male or a person with a male name. 

I want so much to see this incident shared with the public, and my intention is to try have this done, somehow.  The public should be aware that Whole Foods' CEO has been informed in detail of what was done to me by his employees in the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store in my letter to him, and is resolute to ignoring it and me, and it is only right that this happen.  I know it would have had more impact if it had somehow been publicized earlier, but I have been unable to effect this.  As I previously indicated, earlier in this document, I have very limited access to a computer.  

Whole Foods Market, Inc., and should be made legally fully liable for what was done to me by their employees in their Arlington, VA, store on the evening indicated.  It is a huge corporation, held to high ethical standards of integrity and conduct by the public, and is practicing unethical corporate behavior in its ignorance of what I affirmed to the CEO  was done to me by its employees on that evening.  The CEO is at the top of the corporate dishonesty and corruption and by its management and favored employees, and has embraced an untrustworthy, indifferent manner toward customer treatment by these employees toward an innocent customer in the workplace.  In being uncaring, unconcerned, and apathetic about the employees' misconduct in their intentional, indifferent infliction of emotional stress and humiliation of me, the CEO had continued the corporations' slick abusive treatment of me.  The CEO has dictated that he is excepted from the practice of corporate ethics, and that the corporation be self protective and concealing of the intimidating, abusive, and negligent behavior of me by its employees, wanting  the victim (me) ignored, placing his protection and that of the corporation's management and employees and over business ethics.  In occupying such a prestigious, privileged, and responsible position as the CEO of Whole Foods Market, Inc., you are bound to act with integrity and responsibility, and you have to behave with some sense that your behavior has consequences.  Remarkable consequential matters do not become insignificant just because you want them to be, or try to make them look as if they were, and these matters do not just go away because you want them to.  What happens if outsiders of the corporation find out about extraordinary deliberate, unethical, and negligent treatment by its employees toward an inoffensive member of the community shopping in the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store?  The behavior of the Whole Foods' employees toward me on that evening, and the ignorance of it by the CEO, has caused great harm.  The two offending Whole Foods' employees should have to be told how incredibly wrong, negligent, and unethical their treatment of me was throughout the incident on that evening, is considered.  Whole I believe the ethics and business practices of this large corporation should be questioned and investigated. I additionally believe reparation should be required to be made to me by Whole Foods Market, Inc., for their ruthless and underhanded victimization and ignorance of me.  

I believe my rights to have been exceptionally violated, and I've been told this is so by others I've spoken to about the incident.  I have been told that I wasn't treated as human, something I was fully aware of.  I cannot describe sufficiently how incredibly severe and violent in nature this incident actually was, nor the extreme ruthless viciousness of the two offending Whole Foods' employees I was forced to deal with in the store on that evening.  

The two Whole Foods' employees who abused me in the store visibly displayed a malicious intent to cause me harm and suffering, forcefully dismissing what I was trying to say to them about my being innocent of the false statements and allegation just publicly alleged against me, and very eagerly displayed a relentless threatening manner towards me, leering repulsively at me.  The two Whole Foods' employees deliberately intended that my rights be violated, slyly denying me the opportunity to address the head store manager on duty to acknowledge the falsehood that had just been stated of me in the store by one of those employees, and desired to force me from the store immediately, and to be seen doing having done so by others witnessing the incident.  Their power and authority would be distinguished and their "ability" to recognize and to handle a suspicious, offender and banned trespasser in the store would be seen by these witnesses. 

I have not rushed to pursue legal action against Whole Foods for reparation to me.   I searched out all county and state government legal assistance and human rights organizations I was referred to, or became aware of, with all of them telling me that my case was not something that they would be able to help me with.  I have no knowledge of the statutes of limitations that would apply to my situation.  I'm not aware if I could just go to the courthouse and file a legal complaint against Whole Foods myself.  My writing about wanting to file a legal complaint against Whole Foods could likely be something no one wants to be bothered with or read.  But, I do wonder if the incident that I was forced to experience in the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store were made public, if someone would offer to help me with a legal suit against Whole Foods.  I could not afford to lose if I were able to proceed with a legal complaint against Whole Foods.

Whole Foods should unquestionably be required to acknowledge what was done to me by their employees in their store and their ignoring it.  I believe Whole Food should be required to make reparation to me for damages (the harm done to me) by Whole Foods Market, Inc.  Whole Foods Market, Inc., owes a profound debt to me.  

Only after wondering what others would do if what happened to me in the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store had happened to them, did it occur to me that others would likely feel strongly it right that a legal complaint filed against Whole Foods Market, Inc., for the reprehensible actions done to them by Whole Foods employees during the incredibly vicious store incident.  I tried very, very hard to decently and civilly resolve the false allegation made of me with the two ruthlessly vicious Whole Foods' employees, who I was subject to dealing with in the Whole Foods store on that evening, and was deliberately and forcefully battered by them for trying to do so and forced from the premises. 

I am a white female, this prevents me from filing a complaint against Whole Foods asserting racial profiling as the basis for my for being falsely accused of an untruth by an employee while shopping and immediately ordered from the store by the employee.  If I were an African American, or perhaps a person of Hispanic origin, it would be likely I could file such a lawsuit citing a racial profiling as a complaint against Whole Foods.

The employee who very brazenly and hostilely accosted me and falsely accused me in the Whole Foods store appeared to be an African American, and had what happened to me happened to him, he no doubt would file a legal suit against Whole Foods on the basis of racial profiling, (because it would be a case of a store employee mistaking him for another African‑American who they believed to have been involved in past store incidents, accosting him and refusing to listen to his assertions of his innocence of their false statement and accusation of him, or allow him to address the head store manager on duty  about what had just happened to him in the store) as well as defamation of character and other distress caused him.  His being mistaken for another person, a suspicious trespasser banned from entering the store, in his case would automatically meet the criteria of racial profiling.  

I am highly uncertain and insecure in what I am trying to do (address the situation), because I want to convey how severely abusive, and incredibly violent in nature, the incident that occurred inside of the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store was on that evening, but sense that I will not accomplish it because it's unattainable.  I really am uncertain I will not get across to anyone how really bad the incident was, how viciously  I was bullied. (This makes me overemotional and affected the repetitive sections of this document.)  I hope it's not true, but, I perceive that other people would consider my issue irrelevant or not relevant enough.  I feel like I really may be a fool to think anyone would read this and think it relevant, and don't want anyone's time to be wasted in reading it.  I want it to be known I tried very, very, and used deferential care, to decently and civilly, without displaying hostility, resolve the false allegation made against me with the two Whole Foods' employees, whose behavior only demonstrated they really had it in for me to be punished for trying only to assert my innocence to them of the false allegation that had just been made against me by one of those employees.  The intensity of being overcome with immense humiliation throughout the incident caused me deep fear and anxiety and these feelings linger on.  It was their definite intent to shut me up about being innocent of the false allegation just made of me in the store.  They were wildly and viciously self‑protective and refused to consider that I had been falsely accused, and they insisted on treating me as a trespasser and offender in the store.  They insistently refused to be affronted by acknowledging my assertions of my innocence to them and then have it discovered (by checking store records of the alluded to past store incidents, which they entirely refused to do) that I had just been negligently falsely accused, and they insistently maintained the false allegation of me was factual. 

I want the actuality of what was actually done to me by the Whole Foods' employees in the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store on the evening indicated, acknowledged by Whole Foods CEO, conceding that a Whole Foods employee defamed me very openly and publicly – he negligently spoke slanderous untrue words of me publicly in the Arlington, VA, Whole Foods store, and acknowledging negligent infliction of emotional distress on me by the employee's slanderous verbal derogatory public statements of me and the astonishing disparaging maltreatment treatment I received at the hands of the Whole Foods' employees upon my replying to the false accusation made of me that the statement was untrue. 

I was relegated by the two Whole Foods' employees to a shamed, powerless person being mortified on public display, in front of other Whole Foods' employees and customers who were gathered around to witness the incident, so that it appeared to the onlookers that I was guilty of some wrongdoing in the store, perhaps presumed in like to shoplifting or attempted shoplifting, and was forcefully instructed to leave the store premises under a profound presumption of guilt and shame.  They contended my guilt of the false statement/allegation of me was certain, and my treatment by them was unquestionably deserved.  

It was not "just" an "honest mistake" made by the slanderous accusing Whole Foods' employee, where he "just" made the wrong decision in assuming that I was the same person involved in his alluded to past store incidents, and then hostilely accosting and falsely accusing me.  He was incredibly anxious and determined to act on his grossly negligent presumption of me being a particular suspect person who had been involved in past store incidents, very liablely identifying me as "fitting a profile" (of the person he believed to have been the subject of being removed or thrown out of the store in previous store incidents).  He displayed very deliberate disregard and apathy in regard to me when I responded to the libelous falsehood he publicly kept repeating of me.  He was not at all  concerned at all about my repeated, vehement assertions to him of my innocence of his defamatory false statements of me.  He absolutely refused to acknowledge his wrong and wanted the gratification of being seen by witnesses of the incident, and the police, as completely accurate in his determination of me.  He wanted to be "right," so he determined that was the only way it was going to be as far as he was concerned.  He completely refused to consider he might have been wrong, although he had every opportunity to consider it, that what I had tried to say to him, that I was not the same person he wanted to believe I was.  He unreasonably refused to avoid inflicting  emotional distress and injury on me by negligently and persistently dismissing my assertions to him that he was mistaken, and that I was innocent of his publicly declared false statements he had just made of me in the store.  

A defamatory falsehood was very, very irresponsibly, recklessly, and liablely stated of me by a Whole Foods employee, persistently repeated, to me and others who were present.  The accusing employee forcefully stated, and repeated, the falsehood of me, that I had been told to leave the store before on different occasions, repeating the words, "that's her," "it's her," over and over, and threateningly instructed me to leave the store immediately.

The defamatory false statements and accusations he very openly and publicly made of me, and which he continued to liablely repeat, and his failure to use even the slightest amount of care or concern for the possible fraudulence of his false statements and accusation of me, in a way that showed gross recklessness and willful disregard for the effects of his potential inaccuracy, communicated in a heavily populated public place,  caused me to be mortified, shamed, held in contempt, lowered in estimation and  reputation of the witnesses of the community, suffering damage to my reputation and character with his forced degradation of me.  He grossly and intentionally acted negligently in his unreasonable refusal to consider that I was innocent of the false statements and allegation he had just made of me as I had been trying to tell him over and over.

Upon my leaving the store premises, I was emotionally overwhelmed, and my impulse was to cry.  My crying persisted (involuntarily) as I took the subway and walked home.  My neighbor had opened her door as I entered the lobby of the apartment building to talk to me, but I was unable to speak, I believe, from my trauma.  When inside of my apartment, I descended into the deepest point of a completely overwhelming, unbearable depressive state.  I was in an excruciating emotional and mental pain and anguish, with no sense of comfort, but I had no escape from it.   I was not outwardly raging or acting violent in any way, I was very disturbingly withdrawn.  I wanted so much to be treated with an appropriate medication, I needed to be sedated.  Although I was truly in an emergency psychosomatic crisis, for me to go to a hospital to request treatment was an unreasonable, impractical expectation for me.  It was unattainable for me to do it by myself (I have no family close by and don't know anyone who would have assisted me in going for medical treatment at that time).  The thought of what the  experience would be like, had I attempted to go through the action of traveling to a hospital, possibly waiting for an extended period, and the unease of potentially meeting with an intimidating, impatient, hostile doctor or nurse, was too extreme to be expected of me in the condition I was in.  I was so tormented and weak in my state, I had really been extremely beaten down, I don't know that I could even have communicated with a doctor effectively enough for them to agree to treat me. 

I was too disturbed on that evening to try to tell anyone in my family about what had just happened to me, and was emotionally unable to speak to anyone about the incident for event for days afterward.  I did, though, begin writing about the incident on paper several hours afterward, writing through the night and throughout the following days.  I was not able to sleep that night.  The incident happened on a Sunday evening, and I finally found courage enough to call my mother on the following Friday evening to tell her what happened to me.  She was furious.   

The impact of the highly painful incident has been heavy.  The mental and emotional harm it has done to me is incalculable.  I have been having an exceptionally hard time in dealing with what happened to me, I experience a sense of being deeply troubled about what was done to me, how I was displayed and represented as being an suspicious person/offender in the store, in front of so many people, and how Whole Foods CEO desires to get away with their bulling mistreatment of me.  I am not exaggerating in saying I have suffered very severe mental anguish as a result of the negligent abuse inflicted on me by the offending Whole Foods' employees and the Arlington County cops on the evening indicated.  I am plagued by many profound and tormenting feelings of terror, degradation, dehumanization, humiliation, anxiety, depression, distress, devastation, and a feeling of worthlessness, persistently, as an effect of what was done to me by Whole Foods' employees and the cop, who recoiled from me when he arrived at the scene of the conflict with another cop, and proceeded his disregard and degradation of me.  I also endure overpowering, but groundless, guilt and an irrational feeling of my being "bad" and "wrong" for being upset, wanting to speak out, and wanting Whole Foods Market, Inc., to acknowledge the wrong and give reparation for their enormous debt to me for what was done to me by its employees and the CEO, who is disregarding the incident that occurred that evening.  These factors continue to have influence on my ability to routinely carry out the responsibilities of my daily life, without being besieged with the disturbing feelings of what was done to me.  

I had been taking medication for anxiety, and the dosage level was recently considerably increased to help ease my elevated anxiety level, as the situation has produced a lot of mental anguish and difficulty in me.  This has also resulted in an increase in the cost of my medication.  

I am very emotionally disturbed and distraught at how I was treated by the two Whole Foods' employees, and by the Arlington County police who ultimately came to the scene of the conflict, and at how I continue to be regarded by Whole Foods Market, Inc. (there is significant detail about the police interaction with the Whole Foods' employees, and the disparity in their interaction with me).  My treatment, and Whole Foods' regard for me, has caused me to feel timid, irrelevant, not believable, and worthless.  I actually feel permeated with irrational fear and intimidation in wanting to defend my innocence against the false statements and accusation made of me by the accusing, offending Whole Foods' employee.  I feel so small, powerless, and unsupported in comparison to Whole Foods, and vulnerable to their devices in their handling of the incident.

I have felt extremely heightened apprehension, nervousness, timidity and experience a feeling of unsteadiness, at the times when I have intended to address this matter in writing.  There's been a very unintentional inconsistency, as well, in my sense of capability to act without great difficulty in addressing the actuality of what has been done to me by Whole Foods Market, Inc., to try to pursue retribution to me for the extremely disturbing and difficult ordeal, I was forced to suffer by them, which was so severely violent in nature.  It's been overpoweringly difficult mentally and emotionally for me to address this matter verbally or in writing.  When my intended actions have been to address the Whole Foods store incident through writing (on a daily basis), it's triggered a powerful tension and intimidation throughout my psyche and body, I feel a paralyzing fear and weakness, so that I've had to induce great force to proceed in my effort to address the incident.  I have been sidetracked, at times, in addressing the incident by other occurrences in my life. 

In my intention to address the incident in writing, I've been restricted by time.     The time that the incident has taken from me has interfered in my paying consistent attention to other pertinent personal business matters and responsibilities in my life.  

There have been costs I've incurred for materials needed in the course of addressing the incident, for instance, the purchasing of writing supplies, printed paper copies, photo copies, filing materials, and computer disks to back-up document copies.  

There are also some items which Whole Foods sells that are not sold in other market stores, but I am not permitted to go into Whole Food to purchase these particular items at the times I have desired to.  I have also been denied the convenience of shopping in Whole Foods at times I have been in the vicinity, and have had to travel to other locations to shop in market stores.  I have been denied access to purchasing particular items at times that they were on sale at Whole Foods at a discounted cost, unable to have the benefit of purchasing items at the reduced cost.
 

The two Whole Foods' employees who disregarded and mistreated me, demonstrated to me they had absolutely no concern for me proclaiming my innocence of the falsehood they were battering me for, but imposing their fierce determination to "show me" that my statements were completely unwelcome and their intentions were only to not listen to my assertions to them of my innocence of the false allegation made of me, no matter what, and to make crystal clear to me and to the witnesses in the community watching, the only way I was going to be treated was as a presumed suspicious likely offender and prohibited trespasser, unwanted and forbidden in the store, who they were absolutely resolved to have it seen being  immediately forced out of the store, and to refuse to allow me to speak with Whole Foods management to address what had just happened to me in the store and the unprovoked situation I had just been put in by his employees. 

My rights were egregiously violated and I was viciously and demeaningly terrorized and persecuted just because I tried to assert to the two Whole Foods' employees I was forced to contend with after just being so disturbingly and hostilely falsely accused by one those employees, that I was completely innocent of a false allegation just made of me by him.  The two Whole Foods employees completely refused to allow me to defend myself and demanded I leave the store immediately.  I was completely denied any consideration at all of my assertion of innocence of the false allegation just made of me.  The two Whole Foods' employees completely refused to listen to me, and intentionally denied me the right to address the store head manager regarding the grossly negligent falsehood, just vehemently publicly stated of me by one of the employees after requesting to them, again and again, that the head manager on duty be contacted so that I could address him to try and resolve the very serious false statement and accusation just made of me.  My pleas were, likewise, totally ignored by the two Whole Foods' employees to have them refer to existing store records of the alluded to past store incidents I had just been accused of being the subject of, so it could be seen by them that I was not the person involved in those incidents. 

Whole Foods is saying to me that I do not matter and not important enough to warrant an apology from them, nor any acknowledgement of my imposed situation of being an assumed offender of the establishment by Whole Foods management, Whole Foods employees, and numerous members of the community who saw the incident, nor do they have the concern or desire to rectify the situation, and are consciously intending to allow my standing as an presumed undesirable offender, and banned trespasser to the Arlington, VA.
 

Whole Foods is trying to get away with what was done to me by two of their employees who persecuted me throughout the incident in their store on that evening, previously indicated above, by completely ignoring me and the incident. Whole Foods is protecting itself from being open to a possible lawsuit, because of the incredibly hostile and disturbing situation I was subject to by two of their employees, taking place in their store on that evening, by not responding in any way to my letter or e:mails regarding the incident to the CEO and a member of their board of directors.  In my letter, I stated to them that I believed I am owed an apology from the two Whole Foods' employees, who viciously mistreated me, and from Whole Foods.  I made no statement which would be construed as making a threat to Whole Foods or to any Whole Foods employees, nor did I indicate an intention to file a legal complaint against Whole Foods over what was done to me in their Arlington, VA, store.  I fear that Whole Foods could give a statement in their defense of my assertions of what was done to me by their employees, throughout the incident inside of the store, on the indicated evening, justifying the actions of their employees toward me by their two employees by underhandedly and falsely saying something such as, I was a customer who they considered to be of a suspicious nature, and was not a victim of mistaken identity.  If there actually was person who was involved in the accusing employee's alluded to "past store incidents," in which the person was told to leave the store, I was absolutely negligently wrongly identified by the accusing employee as that person because I fit a profile.  I did absolutely nothing odd or suspicious at all in that store on that evening, or on any other occasion.  I truly do fear that Whole Foods may defend themselves by making deluding, deceiving, misleading, untrue statements about me in their own defense. 

Sincerely,

Maureen McLaughlin
Arlington, VA