Matherly is trying to claim that he's not seeking publicity.  BS, that's all he's done since taking office.  If this "concerned citizen" really wanted to do something, they could have had the store management call FPD themselves.  Based on what I've seen every time I shop at Fred Meyer lately, FPD has no qualms whatsoever about acting as private security for well-heeled property owners, including this one.

As for the quote "If the officer can articulate...": in other words, if they can write up some work of fiction on a charging document that the DA and judge will buy, against someone they've been trying to go after anyway, then they'll do something.  If it's some well-to-do "respectable" type who does that at the Abbott Road Freddy's, not a chance.