Roger Reis has become a YouTube star after he tackled a looter trying to steal some merchandise. (Jack Boland, QMI Agency)

TORONTO – He may not be wearing a cape, but he’s doing Batman’s work.

Roger Reis is getting his five minutes of fame after a YouTube video, which shows him tackling a man looting a Bell store at College Park during the G20 weekend, has received more than 100,000 hits.

“To be honest, I didn’t think about it too much,” he said. “It just seemed like the right thing to do, to restrain somebody, bring him to the ground in a controlled way where no one gets hurt and let him on his way.”

Reis, a 37-year-old Bank of Montreal internal consultant, was working out at Goodlife Fitness Club on Yonge St. on Saturday when he came out and saw protesters in black trashing stores. He decided to follow them up the street.

The 17-second video shows the windows smashed at a Bell store and a man in a black hoodie and jeans grabbing a phone and running out. He was accosted by Reis, who brought the man to the ground using a chokehold.

Using his free right hand, Reis tosses the stolen merchandise back into the store and lets the man go, giving him one last shove before telling him, “Don’t steal.”

“He seemed very stunned to be on the ground, so I figured, the damage is done, the merchandise is returned,” he said, adding that uttering the message, “don’t steal” was a “therapeutic release of anger.”