Posted on 01/11/2024 10:35:42 AM PST by jerod
Police chief says while case is 'unusual,' clerk's arrest was 'about the law'
A store clerk who allegedly used a baseball bat to hit a man who attempted to rob his convenience store is now facing a charge of aggravated assault, Peterborough police say.
In a news release issued Tuesday, the Peterborough Police Service said officers were called to a convenience store in the King Street and Bethune Street area around 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 5.
Upon arrival, officers learned that a male clerk was helping a customer when a second man entered the store demanding money and brandishing a baseball bat, according to the release.
"A struggle ensued and the clerk was struck with the bat before grabbing the bat away from the suspect," police said.
"The suspect then fled the store. The clerk followed the suspect out of the store and struck him several times with the baseball bat on the sidewalk."
Arrest warrant issued for 37-year-old suspect
Police said the man who allegedly attempted the robbery suffered head injuries and is in a Toronto hospital receiving treatment, while the clerk was treated at the scene by emergency medical services.
A warrant for arrest was issued for the 37-year-old man who allegedly attempted the robbery for assault with a weapon, possession of weapon, and robbery, police said.
Meanwhile, the 22-year-old clerk from Peterborough was also arrested and charged with aggravated assault. He was held in custody and appeared in court on Jan. 6.
Peterborough police say they would also like to speak with the male customer who was in the store at the time of the incident...
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If one is attacked the victim needs to have the legal ability to finish it.
I thought the clerk struck the guy on the noggin. In any case, good for the clerk. There should be a FAFO defense against the charges, but probably isn't.
This is normal in Nazi Canuckistan.
There will inevitably be a bunch of pusillanimous barracks lawyers babbling about how he shouldn’t have chased the perp blah blah blah.
Eff ‘em.
As a juror, I will not convict anyone of any crime for taking out the trash.
Anarcho-tyranny
My first thought was NH but apparently this is the Canadians.
How else do you explain the legal assault on the guy who was just at work, doing his job?
Sounds like the convenience store guy needs to tune-up a few more members of the gang...
Try fleeing from one of the boys in the magic blue or magic brown suits.
Watch how fast they use a weapon on you...
insanity....
running after someone and beating them the stick they tried to beat you with is a warning “Don’t come back”
Stupid
Another sign of the current insanity that has flooded the nation...
Point taken.
Same.
And to Hell with that "law".
I recall a video of a jewelry store robbery in which the store owner fired upon the armed robbers. They ran for the door, but he hit one of them in the back as he went out. That robber was paralyzed for life from the waist down.
The store owner was never charged with any crime and never subjected to a civil suit. The injured robber and all his accomplices were sentenced to a decade or so in prison and the injured one died there. Oddly enough, this incident was in California.
In contrast, a pharmacist in Pennsylvania fired on armed robbers and chased them off. He fired on a robber who had fallen and killed the robber. The pharmacist was convicted of murder, and all of the robbery accomplices were convicted of "felony murder". This was not justice for the pharmacist.
What the law says and what the law does are not consistent across States or even within States.
The leniency of enforcement against protected classes of people is a severe problem that undermines the rule of law.
When was the last time you saw a cop anywhere on daily patrol with a billy club? 1972?
Strangely enough, I’d bet money the rise of “less than lethal” has increased deaths, not a reduction. Pepper spray, bean bags, stun guns. Once those prove ineffective, now what? For my part I can’t be bothered to GAF about armed robbers getting their bell rung. The clerk deserves a medal.
Incidentally - with regard to your highlighting the billy club - another tool in the box no longer available — The leftists also carefully crafted the use of firehoses as somehow related to “racism”. They have been used for a long time. When Henry Ford announced the $5 a day pay scale so many people came out to apply they had to disperse the mob with firehoses. In January, in Michigan: Works pretty good, apparently.
From a city services and taxpayer perspective turning firehoses on a mob of arsonists and looters it seems like an excellent - even thrifty - use of municipal assets.
“The same law is in effect in the US. Once the villain is fleeing, you can not attack him with any weapon.”
How quaint! Is that how things used to be done in the old days Grampaw? (You’re technically correct, but this is of course highly regional, and in any case sooner more than later will be viewed as outdated as horseblinders.)
The clerk was merely educating the robber on how much it hurt to get hit with a bat so he wouldn’t do it again. Not guilty.
Owner would be money ahead if he just signed the store over to the thief; now the defense attorneys will own it.
That's not true. A fleeing attacker can still be a threat to themselves and others. In common law, the fleeing felon rule permits the use of force, including deadly force, against an individual who is suspected of a felony and is in clear flight.
It wasn't until after Rodney King got his tune up in 1991 that police departments started a large scale effort to discontinue arming their officers with clubs.
Despite that effort, many departments still issue batons, both fixed and expanding types.
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