Add checking out at the Dollar Tree to things women can’t do in peace. Philadelphia police were flipping the city upside down looking a man who allegedly ejaculated on a woman while at the chain store. The outrage was so bad, renowned music artist Meek Mill even stepped into the manhunt.
A video posted Wednesday by online personality Collin Rugg sparked outrage across the internet. On the video, a woman is heard yelling after a middle-aged Black man fleeing a Dollar Tree store. “You go to hell you b***h!” she wailed in horror before pointing the camera down toward her leg. Through tears, she cries out accusing the man of ejaculating on her leg.
Philly police asked for the public’s help in identifying the man after publishing stills of him inside the store on surveillance camera. Police said the incident happened at the store’s location at 56 East Snyder Ave. on June 23.
It’s unclear the circumstances behind the sudden release of the video. Though, when it was released, it wasn’t just the cops who wanted to find this alleged creep — the whole internet wanted his head.
“In my regime, he’d be hunted for sport,” wrote one user.
“Public execution I’m so serious,” wrote another.
“Oh nah, that n****a need to get l*nched,” wrote another (and a Black man at that).
Meek reposted the video on X with the caption reading, “Let’s play manhunt with him today in Philly some community service… I got 2 bands for his [location]? But you gotta connect.”
Dollar Tree employees provided a few tips to the cops, alleging the suspect often hung around Snyder Plaza and the I-95 underpass where he parks his car, per CBS News.
By Wednesday evening, police announced that 35-year-old Gary Miles turned himself in as the suspect in question.
“The PPD extends its gratitude to the public for their assistance in locating Mr. Miles,” read a statement from the police, per FOX 29 News. The Root contacted the Philadelphia Police Department for more information on Miles’ detainment.