'Chocolate Breath' Helps Police Nab Shoplifter

HI on Mothers day I won a $500 gift certificate to spend anywhere in place d Orleans in Ottawa. I shopped spending everything but $50.00 which I gave to my hubby. When I got home there were a couple of things that didn't fit so I returned them and in exchange was given another Zellers only gift card. Ok Cool Zellers is just up the street so I took it. A few days later I was in the store with my daughter who just turned 1 in April and looked for those baskets so I could put it on my stroller but there was none. I walked around doing my shopping all the while taking my items and putting them on my stroller as I can't steer and hang on to stuff or push a cart and stroller at the same time. Not once did anyone say anything to me or ask me if I needed help. I was in the store no less than a half hour when I went into the baby section and my daughter seen her cookies and freaked. I gave her the cookies to calm her (in the box of course) no luck and figure fuck this lets get outta here she probably needs a snack and then a nap. So I walk to the cash while she is standing up (she is tiny and damn Zellers strollers I can't make it tighter)grabbing things off shelves and throwing them all the while trying to calm her down. A nice gentleman sees I am having problems and she is just getting louder despite my attempts to calm her and lets me go ahead even though he just has a mirror in his cart. So I rush through taking things off the stroller and paying. I use my gift card to pay. I leave the store and go to pull up beside the doors and pour some juice to calm her when a woman who looks like a crack head (very common in my area -Vanier in Ottawa Ontario) says excuse me so I say yes and she says did you forget to pay for something?? I answer well maybe my daughter just threw a fit and I was trying to calm her when the lady was ringing up my purchases (figuring maybe they missed something) and telling her she could check if she would like. Her reply WAS NO YOU CHECK THE CANOPY OF YOUR STROLLER very loud and rudely. So I lift it and there is a pair of sunglasses I remember looking at glasses but not selecting a pair or anything and explain I was a little preoccupied. She asks me to return to the store so I say ok and follow her in while she keeps saying go to the back go to the back. When we get to the back room, a small little office with monitors she leaves the door wide open and says that I am under arrest for shoplifting and asks for id. I have nothing but the lease I just signed for my new place so she calls the police. Then tells me it was on video and the first thing I looked at. I say ok and again explain the situation again. So the police arrive a 1/2 hour later (the whole time my daughter is freaking) and I figure good I didn't do anything wrong they'll look at the tape realize it was a mistake (I should have double checked my stupidity) give me a warning and let me go but no way. Instead the officer asks for my side I give it and ask him to watch the tape he leaves (I assumed at this point to ask to see this tape she said she had) and then comes back and says he is not watching the tape because due to the fact that it was a gift certificate he thinks I was after the glasses. That's when I get mad and tell him it doesn't matter what he thinks it is what this tape shows and they tell me I have to go outside and get a fine. I tell look I have been pleasant but I am not walking through the store escorted by police with my child I WANT A LAWYER. They then tell me I have to be charged and brought in cuffs downtown for that to happen, do you really want that mam? I say no and follow as everyone watches me through the store.While waiting at the car a fight breaks out with a bunch of teens in the parking lot and the police leave me waiting at the car tackle on guy who tries to flee cuff him and bring him to wait right behind me and my child. I take the fine fuming by this point buddy already resisted once whats to stop him from trying right behind me and my child. So I go home to call professional standards and I am told:

Because I was fined and not charged they do not need proof

The only way to fight them is through the city of Ottawa like a parking ticket but searches by police on my name will show this.

there is nothing wrong with the way this was handled by any party.

I even called a lawyer and got the same response.

I used to tell my kids if you did nothing wrong stay calm and explain yourself but now I tell em cal Mommy and shut your mouth.

Sad Sad Sad and scary criminals have more rights than normal citizen if they charged me the law requires proof of intent and crime but because I was given a fine (because I have a clean record supposedly) I do not have these same rights. Now I am banned and was told a bill will be in the mail. All for a $10.00 pair of glasses. Oh yeah I also asked for MS. Securities name and was provided with just a #.

If all the info I got is correct this should be fixed EVERYONE should be able to plead their case and be able to examine proof against them or retain legal counsel if they are a criminal or not!!!!!