As she was closing up shop on a blustery December night, a man dressed in black burst into Brow Beauty Salon.
He waved a black-and-gold handgun at Rashmi Samani and demanded she give him all the money in the register. She obliged, but the robber still shoved her to the ground before fleeing the Omaha shop.
On paper, it was an alarming report of violence against an undocumented immigrant. There was just one problem: The robbery had been staged…