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Ya.. who does he think he is? An officer of the law?

1 let me drag you around with my car. you get one shot after your shoes come off. I bet I live and you miss.

2 She was dragging him around with the car. Or was this one of those evil esss you vees that commits attempted murder on its own?

3 could have. woulda been a pitty. BUT WHO THE F#%K BRINGS KIDS WITH TO COMMIT A CRIME?!?!?!?

let's say we have 4 women, not 3. Remember, the report is that 3 of them were together inside the store ~ but the driver of the car may well have already been outside ~ waiting for when they came out to pick them up.

She could easily be an innocent dupe who was unaware the other three were actually inside running a theft routine (the news articles says that involved paying for some small items in order to cover up the fact they'd stolen some larger or more expensive stuff).

Having a driver bring the car up to get you is pretty standard at a busy Walmart ~ but that'd be on the videos the store has.

At some point the driver's lawyer will undoubtedly claim that she did not know this guy was a real cop! He'll base that on the 380 million such cases reported on Google.com, some of them recent, and featured on FOX TV in Houston.

Look, these women seem to have been professional thieves so they know............

“Ya.. who does he think he is? An officer of the law?”

Here’s the problem...

When this went down, he was NOT an officer of the law. That was his OTHER job. He was a Walmart employee who just happened to have a gun.

There was an alleged crime (probably not a felony) that his co-worker informed him of moments earlier, but that crime (if there was one), had already taken place so his actions could not have been to prevent it.

Leaving the scene of a crime is not in it’s self a crime.

So he’s just an average Joe with an attitude and a gun.

Walmart, as well as many other retailers have security folks that try to hold suspected shoplifters for the cops. They all have policies regarding the detention of suspects and none of them include using deadly force.

In this case:
#1. He was not preventing a crime In this case, just pointing a loaded gun into the car amounted to Felony endangerment of a child since children were reported to be in the car.

#2. Assuming he felt threatened by the driver of the vehicle, he could possibly argue self defense if he shot her to protect his life, but he didn’t shoot her - he shot one of the passengers. The fact that the victim had been accused of committing a crime earlier means nothing... She was not committing a crime when she was shot.

#3. How was it that he was being dragged by the car? Did the driver have a hold of him? It is much more likely that he had a hold of the car.

We had an incident in NY several years back where undercover cops shot into a car and killed people (not the driver) because they suspected illegal activity. They were convicted. Those cops were actually on duty cops, not cops moon-lighting working for Walmart.

I guess you guys would say that if he had killed one of the kids that that would have been justified too...