Walmart shopper allegedly returns to steal multiple times in one day. Viral post claims she shouted ‘I came from Palestine’
The bodycam shows a theft investigation, but the viral caption fills in several details the footage never clearly proves.
A Walmart shopper’s return trip to a Peoria, Illinois, store allegedly ended with police waiting for her. In bodycam footage from the encounter, an officer tells the woman that employees “recognized you from last time so they called us” and says the latest suspected theft involved about $30 in merchandise.
Majda Al-haddad later shared the footage on X, where her Arabic caption was translated as saying the woman had returned to Walmart multiple times that day. The post also claims she shouted, “I came from Palestine,” once police arrived.
What the bodycam actually shows is pretty plain. An officer says Walmart employees recognized the woman from an earlier visit and tells her the current allegation involves about $30 in merchandise. The footage never actually spells out how many times she had allegedly been there before, and the Palestine quote in the viral caption is not clearly audible in the clip.
The caption gives viewers more to be angry about
Al-haddad’s post says the woman shouted, “I came from Palestine.” The bodycam gives clearer context for a different exchange. As officers try to handcuff her, she asks for a female officer and says she is Muslim while objecting to the men touching her. Nothing clearly audible shows her saying her religion or background should excuse the alleged theft.
The caption supplies that interpretation anyway, giving viewers a more inflammatory version of the encounter to react to. Oxford University Press named “rage bait” its 2025 Word of the Year and defines it as content designed to provoke anger or outrage to drive traffic and engagement.
On X, that attention can also carry financial value. Eligible creators can earn money through the platform’s Original Content Rewards program based partly on qualified impressions from Premium users. We found no evidence that Al-haddad earned money from this post, but millions of views can still carry value beyond visibility.
القبض على امرأة عربية عادت عدة مرات لتسرق من وال مارت في نفس اليوم، لكن في المرة الاخيرة كانوا قد جهزوا لها الشرطة. العجيب انها في نص الفيديو كانت تصرخ انا جيت من فلسطين. على اساس لو جت من فلسطين المفروض يتروكها تسرق براحتها! https://t.co/da8DHdsR2o
— Majda Al-haddad (@meMajda) October 8, 2026
Reuters Institute found that 73% of U.S. respondents worried about separating real information from false or misleading claims online. This post shows why. The bodycam confirms the theft investigation and arrest, while some of the details driving the outrage come from the caption rather than the footage itself.
Those repeat trips could matter under Illinois law
The officer only discusses about $30 in merchandise from this encounter, but his comment that employees recognized the woman “from last time” points to an earlier incident. Walmart shoppers have described plainclothes loss prevention workers monitoring customers inside stores, although the bodycam does not show what employees observed or documented before calling Peoria police.
Illinois law can combine separate retail thefts when prosecutors say they were part of the same course of conduct within one year. The state generally treats retail theft totaling $300 or less as a Class A misdemeanor, while qualifying thefts totaling more than $300 can amount to a Class 3 felony.
The footage does not show whether any earlier allegation would count toward that total. Officers never say what Walmart previously accused the woman of taking, how much it was worth or what evidence the store had collected before calling police.
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