The dilemma

The clip is twelve seconds long. Sal loads four boxes into his trunk and drives off. The board chat is already moving fast. "Theft from a food bank," the chair writes. "We owe it to our donors to act." You pull the storage log on your phone before you reply. Something does not line up. Every box he took was bread and produce marked for the bin the next morning. And every pickup happened on a Tuesday night. The chair messages you directly: "{{NAME}}, you know him best. Did we just catch someone stealing from the people who need it most?"

Your options

1. Go to Sal first, before anyone else does. He has earned the right to explain himself to your face.
2. Back the chair. Theft from a charity breaks the trust that keeps donors giving, whoever does it.
3. Say nothing yet. Pull the full footage and the records yourself, and let the facts decide before people do.