thats lovely coming from someone whose job is not on the line…youre all seriously making way too big a deal of this. hindsight is 20/20…mazal tov. but its so much easier to condemn once you know teh end result. you werent in teh situation, so stop beating up on the guy. maybe he couldnt afford to lose that job? maybe he was behind on rent? until you know his cheshbon, please stop condemning him.
also its not as if he denied the cops or even shomrim…a guy walked into his shop and asked to see the footage…sure he invoked leiby, but german wasnt offical, personally i would have been suspicious as well.