A former Kroger store manager says he lost his job after stepping in to protect an elderly co-worker from masked shoplifters in a DeKalb County parking lot. Months later, he is fighting to clear his name.
Cellphone video shows masked suspects at the Kroger on North Decatur Road swinging a bag of paper towels at an elderly employee and shoving her. It also shows Michael Self on the ground after he says they punched him in the head.
“As I got away from that door, someone hit me in the back of the head with something,” Self told Channel 2’s Matt Johnson…