Maybe the security guy just wanted to be famous and made a mountain out of a molehill. His idea for a movie could go like this.
Imagine Shia raced out of the shop , onto his bike and cycled away at an inhuman rate ( a la Tour de France) and then a paparazzi helicopter comes along and films the chase, cause now, well, Shia is a terrorist!! It's 2007, aren't we all terroprists!
Anyway, he's being pursued down a road at an astonshing 30 MPH!! Even O.J is tuning in!! Spielberg gets wind of it , now he tunes in and thinks he could make a movie out how everybody can be a terrorist by just standing in a shop!!
And lucas is on the phone to hasbro about them making a figure of shia on the bike.
But now the cops are getting frustrated and start firing (their radios, not bullets, like in E.T - special edition!) unremorsefully at Shia and.............
Now, in the time it took me to write that (rubbish), a cop could have walked into the shop, questioned Shia, talked to the manager and just quietly advised Shia to leave. It wasn't a robbery, it wasn't trespass (otherwise shopping would have been outlawed!)
We're just basically dealing with a stupid cop, who now has something to tell his wife and kids. I'm the guy who busted Shia!! If he's really brave, maybe he should go to Afghanistan!
End of rant!
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