[jjm2111]

A bunch of customers and/or employees could have easily restrained these girls, yet not one person intervened? What is wrong with our society? Why do people completely abdicate any sense of duty or responsibility to their fellow human beings?

[Killborn]

"If it feels good, do it."

[Bob J]

Baloney. Minimum wage clerks are not bouncers or security guards. Don't paid enough.

[Centurion2000]

Sanchez said. "The manager didn't respond when I told her about it. She said, 'We told our employees not to get involved so they won't get hurt.' "

I guess human decency never factored into their decisions.

[jess35]

From the article:

Fielding said the victim bumped the girl with a box she was carrying, provoking the child to demand an apology.

Ya think she might be related to the little thuglet?

[taxcontrol]

What's wrong you ask? ... It's called a lawsuit. Imagine if just one of these little darlings had be actually injured as a result of the restraint!!! Horrors - we can't have vigilantes jumping in and beating up little Stephani when she wants to get her "game on".

[/dripping sarc]

[Killborn]

"If it feels good, do it."

[Rakkasan1]

Why do people completely abdicate any sense of duty or responsibility to their fellow human beings?

because there was a hot sale on ipods?

[GBA]

Welcome to the jungle
It gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me

[ellen_rometsch]

Don't feel too sorry for Sanchez, as a member of a designated victim group I'm sure her civil suit is being prepped as I write this. Plus the 10-year-old thugette's family will sue the police.

Both Target and the City will settle.

Another day in Free-Lunch-istan ... formerly known as these United States of America.

[Doogle]

...strange no mention of security cameras

[spunkets]

"A bunch of customers and/or employees could have easily restrained these girls, yet not one person intervened? What is wrong with our society? Why do people completely abdicate any sense of duty or responsibility to their fellow human beings?"

This is liberal land.. The bliss ninnies rule there. They are simply afraid to interfere.

There are also those that are afraid of the police, prosecutors and lawyers. They don't want anything to do with them, because they're quite often a bunch of corrupt lying bastards, enabled by the bliss ninnies. If one of the precious little things had been touched by an adult, they run the risk of being prosecuted for child abuse.

[Bob J]

"A bunch of customers and/or employees could have easily restrained these girls..."

Easily? How do you know how big/tough they were? How do you know they weren't armed?

[TChad]

First there is this:

"The manager didn't respond when I told her about it. She said, 'We told our employees not to get involved so they won't get hurt.' "

Then there is this:

"Target's first priority is always the safety of our guests," the statement said. "We take this situation very seriously and are committed to providing a safe, secure environment."

Does that mean that Target is committed to ensuring the safety of their patrons, so long as Target employees don't actually have to do anything to ensure that safety? This is a strange version of commitment, almost indistinguishable from indifference.

[dfwgator]

Why do people completely abdicate any sense of duty or responsibility to their fellow human beings?

One word: Lawyers.

[Landru]

"A bunch of customers and/or employees could have easily restrained these girls, yet not one person intervened?"

Happens all the time.

"What is wrong with our society?"

What "society" might you mean?

"Why do people completely abdicate any sense of duty or responsibility to their fellow human beings?"

Because they're no longer humans, they're animals.

...& this, a jungle.

[fnord]

two reasons to be hesitant to get involved:

first, unless you witnessed the entire event, which side do you pick? this doesn't sound like a couple of teachers each grabbing a kid in a schoolyard fight. there are a myriad of scenarios that could go the other way from the published
story.

along that line, say that you and a few other patrons jump in and try to restrain the girls. now another group of patrons is drawn to the ruckus, see you and others wrestling young girls. they might be inclined to jump in and start assaulting you to protect the kids. and so on and so on ...

then there's the inevitable lawsuit

[billybudd]

Fear of lawsuits.

[Anti-Bubba182]

If anynody touched the girls they would be sued. Now the victim has a case against the Store and the parents of her assailants.