85-year-old woman wants apology after mattress store calls police, has her removed

An elderly woman said she had the police called on her for simply trying to review her bill.

News Center 7′s Kayla McDermott breaks down what the 85-year-old woman says happened LIVE on News Center 7 at 5 p.m.

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Officers responded to the Sleep Number near the Dayton Mall in Miami Township because the manager claimed the woman was trespassing.

Dewberry came prepared with her papers looking to speak to the manager at Sleep Number to go over her bill, but she says he was immediately rude to her and then tried to make her talk to someone else on the phone.

“He just picked up the phone, he shoved it toward me. He didn’t even hand it to me he shoved it towards me,” she said. “I said ‘Sir, I got dressed to come down here to talk to a person not on the phone again.’”

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She says he then told her to leave, she said no and called her husband, and that’s when the manager called the police.

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