Posted on 08/14/2021 8:29:14 AM PDT by lightman
A Teaneck woman who was attacked and suffered a broken bone in her leg in Staples last summer after asking a fellow customer to put on a mask has filed a lawsuit against the business.
Margot Kagan, 55, says in court papers a lack of supervision and security left her “boxed in” and vulnerable to the woman who allegedly attacked her near the fax machines at the Hackensack store.
There was “no reasonable way to alight from a foreseeable event,” states the suit, filed last week in Superior Court of Bergen County.
“(The) foreseeable event was a fellow patron who berated and ultimately attacked (Kagan),” the suit states.
The incident occurred July 29 as the mother of two faxed paperwork from the store’s machines, Kagan told NJ Advance Media after the attack.
In an interview from her hospital bed last year, Kagan said she’d recently had a liver transplant and was worried about contracting the coronavirus.
“I said, ‘you’re endangering everyone by not wearing your mask’ and I put my head down and went back to faxing at the machine,” Kagan said days after the event.
Security video from a store camera shows the suspect walk around a plastic divider and confront Kagan.
“Next thing I know, she’s two feet away from me, screaming at me,” Kagan said. “I really didn’t understand what she was saying. I lifted my cane to keep her away from me.”
Video appears to show the suspect grabbing the frail woman and throwing her to the floor. “My knee broke while I was falling. I later learned it was my tibia,” Kagan said.
Police arrested Terri Thomas, 25, of Hackensack, and charged her with aggravated assault. The criminal case is pending in Superior Court, public records show. But Kagan has sued only the store, not Thomas.
The lawsuit alleges Staples was negligent in not providing security at the Hackensack store, which court papers describe as “a high crime area.” Staples did not immediately respond Friday morning to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
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The only way that the event was foreseeable was because of what Kagan did. Instead of keeping her mouth shut, she started something.
Wanna dance, gotta pay the band.
Americans have about had it with hypochondriac freaks.
It’s perfectly ok to ROFLMAO at her, right?
If you are concerned for your health stay home.
“I lifted my cane to keep her away from me.”
Sounds like assault with a weapon. Too bad, Karen. You initiated the confrontation, then started the physical stuff. The store can’t reasonably be expected to keep you from being an idiot, nor to keep you from the consequences of your idiocy.
If you are so terrified of the Chinese Communist Party’s Fauci-funded bioweapon, stay in your basement with twelve masks on your face and leave the sane people alone.
wait... so some Karn stuck her nose where it didn’t belong and now wants to blame Staples?
ROFL
“no reasonable way to alight from a foreseeable event,”
Huh?
She may lose the suit. Then again, sometimes instigators win this kind of crap.
How wildly simple, is that?
“But Kagan has sued only the store, not Thomas.”
And there you have it.
The younger woman can’t pay up but the big company can.
I hope she loses.
Yeah, I don’t know if there’s anything more unpredictable than a jury in a civil trial.
If you are scared of Covid lady, why didn’t you stay home and order online?
Even though it’s why she went to Staples, this woman really didn’t want the fax.
absolutely. she should have asked someone else to fax her stuff for her if she was too compromised to leave the house.
“..It’s perfectly ok to ROFLMAO at her, right?...”
It’s still somewhat of a free country...well, sorta and contrary to what our ruling “King Fauxi” has to say, so yeah, have at it....I certainly am.... ROTFLMFAO!
I vividly recall reading about this incident. The girl attacked this frail older woman like a crazed gorrila.
Yes, the older woman asked her to mask up. Some would say she provoked the incident, but the girl’s reaction was way out of proportion.
There may be some settlement offered by the store in a “Go away and leave us alone!” kind of approach. A settlement, because the attack was so publicized on YouTube.
Any retail outlet would have some degree of limited liability when you are open to the public. Before the era of Masks, this kind of business had little reason to have roaming Security Guards.
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