[JamesP81]

I strongly reccomend you read the whole article.

[RexBeach]

"Loss prevention employees"? Wow, what a euphemism!

Were they hired by "inventory maintenance employees"?

[Mr_Peter]

Why. There's nothing more of interest in the full article. Am I missing something?

[over3Owithabrain]

Crime doesn't pay. That's all I get from this.

[thefactor]

asphyxiation due to pressure on the chest. never leave someone lying on their stomach while they are immobilized. recipe for disaster. can you smell the lawyers?

[Abathar]

Didn't this happen a while ago? I remember reading about this several weeks back.

[darkwing104]

Stuidity. The guy shouldn't stole. The Walmart employees were negligent and caused his death. They should of let him at the first sign of trouble. There are going to be big lawsuits.

[eastforker]

I read the story and the comments by others at the end. I am amazed at the thinking of some people. They blame the walmart employees and not the thief for his actions. Another amazing thing is this is my walmart, been their many times and I have never seen anyone neer the door that would be considered loss prevention employees. Moral of story, don't steal and you won't ever have to worry about this happening to you.

[trubluolyguy]

I read the whole article.


Note to self....do not steal from Wal-Mart.


They will kill you.


This is no joke.

[Aliska]

Excessive force. I saw an incident like that once and the lady kept screaming she couldn't breathe. One security guard threw her down on her stomach on the blacktop and then plonked down on top of her, full body. She wasn't going to easily get away from them; the two security guards could have easily restrained her. Eventually they had to get the paramedics. I will always wish that I had pleaded with the security guards.

She may have ended up dying and it was covered up.

I don't justify what she had done; they pulled stuff out from under her skirt, but the way they brutally handled her was uncalled for. I didn't and don't have a cell phone it was several years ago, but no one came forward to plead for her, but if I ever see anything like that again, I'll scream and raise holy h*** even if I end up getting arrested, that's how bad I felt and still feel about it.

I will never forget that.

[RichInOC]

Charles Portz said he was getting out of his car when he saw a heavy blonde haired man being chased by five people who appeared to be security or store employees. He said he saw them wrestling the man to the ground. "The blacktop was extremely hot," said Portz. "He had no shirt on and they wouldn't let him up off the blacktop."

"...One thirty-two and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint...."

[BadAndy]

"Portz said he eventually began to plead with the Walmart employees. "I told them, this guy doesn't look like he's breathing," Portz said, "They said, 'He's all right."


Now you know why they are Walmart security and not physicans.

[Willie Green]

I don't have much sympathy for shoplifters,
But frying 'em like an egg on the hot asphalt of a WalMart parking lot DOES violate the Constitutional prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

It sounds like one helluva nasty way to meet your Maker IMHO.

[Melas]

Cold blooded murder plain and simple.

[D.P.Roberts]

The little gang of bullies killed him. SWATed out little wannabes, not smart enough to pass a police entrance exam.

[RichInOC]

I strongly recommend not attempting to steal from Wal-Mart. Especially not in Texas. Especially not in August. And especially not if you're, and I quote, "heavy" (which, considering it was Texas, I suspect is a euphemism for "built like Fat Bastard"). Accidents happen.

[mhking]

Ties go to the security guards...

[TC Rider]

The store employees could not have known that the witness who was pleading with them to let Driver get up from the hot pavement was a high profile Houston attorney, from the Portz and Portz law firm.

Oops, now they get there before the ambulance.

[news blogger]

Wal Mart needs taser weapons or mace.