7/11 Incident
Not to be confused with the Walmart Ban from 2021, where Daniel simply had a confrontation with an employee.
| “ | I got my dog dognapped from me... | ” |
| — Daniel, before being arrested | ||
The 7/11 Incident took place on July 11, 2023, following the conclusion of the Dog Arc where Music, the dog Daniel fraudulently "adopted" was rescued. The incident occurred around 1:30 PM MST inside a Walmart in Colorado. Upon realizing that Music had been "dognapped" from him, Daniel had a destructive meltdown, causing approximately $2,000 in property damage. He cracked a bus window and damaged multiple appliances inside the store.
This incident was one of the few where no bystanders or direct witnesses recorded any of it, rendering it lost media for several months. It remained undocumented until February 28, 2024, when it was found via police bodycam footage. Interestingly, Daniel, who is known to compulsively lie, was surprisingly somewhat accurate about the whole incident. In a phone call made shortly after the incident, he described being physically restrained, causing damage to store property, and breaking a lottery machine. All of these details were later confirmed by the recovered bodycam footage, lending unexpected credibility to his account.
One detail Daniel notably omitted from his phone call was the leash. According to a woman working nearby, Daniel had swung a leash that he purchased earlier for Zola at a nearby PetSmart, and struck the front window of a bus carrying senior citizens, causing it to crack.
Daniel was humorously described to have been "40-50 years old" according to witnesses on the bus.
Background
Between July 9-11, 2023, Daniel's followers had been searching for him out of growing concerns that a dog he had recently adopted—named "Music" (originally Zola) by Daniel, was in danger, clearly due to his homelessness and his grave inability to take care of himself. The Longmont Humane society was called in the three days that Music was in Daniel's possession, along with Animal Control units. On July 11, an individual known as "Ween," who had posed as a veterinarian, successfully recovered Music and returned the dog to the Longmont Humane Society shelter.
Following Music's recovery, Daniel stopped posting for seven hours. He then posted that he was out of police custody and facing new criminal charges. One post showed Daniel with a visibly injured face, which he implied resulted from repeatedly hitting himself. He also explained engaging in self-injurious behaviors and claimed that Walmart security had thrown him down during the incident. Daniel elaborated on his version of events in multiple posts on his community tab over the following days.
After these posts, a call between Daniel and an unknown individual surfaced where Daniel goes into depth regarding his side of the story. This call was recorded by Goated Mines, one of the key players in rescuing Music from Daniel.
Post-Incident call
Recovery of the 7/11 Incident Footage
On the 10th of February, 2024 Reddit user u/boodiemonstre made a post on r/DanielLarson making a call to action to possibly try to located bodycam footage from police from the Walmart where the incident occurred. [1] He, along with several other redditors had contributed to a crowdfunding campaign to recover the footage, with occasional weekly updates being made regarding the status of the footage.[2][3][4]
On the 26th of February, u/boodiemonstre made a post claiming that the footage had to have another request be put in to find it after the original request for the footage had not initially gone through. Approximately a few days later on the 28th, the footage was found and posted to the subreddit, in full.
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References
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/1anso3m/to_whomever_got_the_body_cam_footage_of_the/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/1av55ac/operation_711_update/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/1b0w9z3/operation_711_update_2_progress/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/1arrndc/operation_711_update_we_need_the_reddits_help_for/