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Man shot dead by police in Walmart 'after he picked up a toy gun'
Daily Mail ^ | August 7, 2014 | Julian Robinson

Posted on 08/07/2014 3:41:25 PM PDT by Altariel

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To: Forgotten Amendments

Wal-Mart might not release them, but they would never destroy them, just lock them in a secure vault at their headquarters.

The reason for this is that they are a totally top-down organization. Even a box store manager has little say in what happens in his store, to the point where the store temperature of every store is determined by their headquarters from afar.

It can get surreal at times, because they have the world’s largest inventory database system. There had been a hurricane in Florida, and another one was expected soon, so they used this database to determine what people bought as emergency supplies.

Two things were far and away at the head of the list: beer and strawberry Pop-tarts. So they sent a huge convoy of semi-trucks to Florida with those two items. And the silly computer was right, they sold every bit of it.


41 posted on 08/08/2014 8:20:19 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: PLMerite

Thanks for posting this. When people post a picture of this gun, it doesn’t give anyone like me any true perspective. Seeing this in the hands of a person gives one the idea that this looks threatening and that’s what that 911 caller and those cops probably were dealing with.


42 posted on 08/12/2014 8:54:25 PM PDT by Sister_T (So, ACA is the law of the land? Remember: DADT and DOMA were the laws of the land! Repeal ACA!)
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To: Altariel

You are right. From his reaction it seems the first time he noticed the police was after he was shot. They are off screen, but he does not turn towards them or point the weapon towards them. He seems to run back towards the weapon after being shot, but they may have been fear (how can you think logically if you had just been shot out of the blue).


43 posted on 09/24/2014 1:47:33 PM PDT by exhaustguy
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