Kelly Clarkson's visit to Brooklyn store at center of viral bird controversy captured on leaked security footage

She appears to be browsing. She's now at a shelf. She's picked something up, which that is something that the shop, they say on all the shelves, they say pick it up, play with it, except for the bird. Kelly Clarkson's now viral interaction with a Brooklyn shopkeeper she accused of being rude to her was caught on camera. Journalist Pablo Torre obtained security footage from Art of Play in Brooklyn Heights and aired it on an episode of his podcast, Pablo Torre finds out. In the footage Clarkson browses the store and plays with a telescope before she comes upon Molly the rare automaton bird at the center of the scandal. There is no audio with the footage but she's seen talking to the shopkeeper about the toy bird as he also gestures to it. Clarkson then puts the telescope she was looking at back before heading out of the store. Before she leaves however she turns around and seems angry while standing at the doorway as she talks to the man at the front cash register. Art of Play co-owner Adam Rubin spoke to Page Six, blasting the singer for her reprehensible abuse of power, after her public complaints allegedly unleashed a torrent of online harassment against his small business. But it's so harsh to forgive her actions after she walked out the door. Why? Because it's causing a real world... She knew what was going to happen. She knew that the entire pressure of her millions and millions of fans around the world would come to the surface of their pain and weaponize themselves and debase themselves on behalf of a millionaire they have never met. Because she perceived a certain treatment, which wasn't a verbal. It was a perception of a mood. Nobody else in the store, the store was so crowded, nobody else in the store would have perceived that anything negative had happened until she told off the shopkeeper as she walked out the door. And that was the only time that we realized somebody was unhappy. And then, 15 minutes later, the entire weight of the internet came crashing down upon us and we were caught completely unprepared. 15 minutes later. I mean, I could list names. We live in Brooklyn. Look it. We're on the side of Atlantic Avenue, right by the Brooklyn Bridge, on the edge of Brooklyn Heights. So many celebrities have come in here, and many of them have posted publicly about how they love this place. So if you look at the social media, you can see. That's often a thing that they talk about. I can tell you this. People way more famous than Kelly Clarkson have come in here and been treated just the same as everybody else. They do not have a problem. how intense you know are thousands of hateful phone calls thousands of hateful text messages kelly clarkson fans demanding we issue her an apology and it's just such a perverse distortion of reality that anyone can look at the situation and think that we are the ones who owe an apology regardless of what happened in the shop the misunderstanding in a crowded shop everybody that comes into the store is treated the same like a normal person That's what pissed her off She didn't get special treatment She was treated like everybody else who comes in Whether they're in sweatpants Or they're nine years old Or they're a celebrity we don't recognize They all get treated the same way And the fact that anybody thinks we owe her an apology When she threw a Molotov cocktail Into our store And while it's on fire They're saying we owe her an apology This is asymmetrical social warfare We didn't know That people would come out of the woodworks The feud ignited this weekend when Clarkson dragged Art of Play on social media on Saturday, October 10th, accusing an employee of treating her like Julia Roberts' character in Pretty woman after allegedly assuming she couldn't afford the mechanical singing bird, which had a price tag of $15,000. The price tag now reads $15 million. That's one pricey tweet.