Wal-Mart Fires Manager Who Called Police On Black Customer

The Ksbwchannel ^ | 12/14/2005 | cawats

[CAWats]

TAMPA, Fla. -- A Tampa-area Wal-Mart manager who called sheriff's deputies to apprehend a black businessman over a check he found questionable was fired for using "poor judgment," but did not engage in racial profiling, the retail chain said Tuesday.

An internal investigation of the Nov. 23 incident at a Wal-Mart supercenter in Brandon found that the manager, Mark Cornett, violated company procedures when he called the law on Reginald Pitts who presented a $13,600 check to pay for holiday gift cards for his company's employees, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman said.

[JasonC]

Wasn't anything false about it.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I respectfully disagree.

[Unassuaged]

Yes, I think everybody deserves the benefit of the doubt.

[Fruitbat]

Yes, I think everybody deserves the benefit of the doubt.

I disagree. Some don't. All things need to be considered. But in an example with limited information and no further insights, for purposes of discussion, that's fair.

Tookie Williams didn't deserve any benefits-of-the-doubt. Neither does Saddam Hussein. Nor do others depending upon what those doubts are and what the possible consequences of those extending such doubts would be.

[Fruitbat]

To clarify that last one, let's assume a three-time child molester is up for parole after 10 years and says he's clean now. That person should not be extended any benefit of the doubt. The results/consequences of doing so can easily be, and likely will be, the destruction of more lives.

[Unassuaged]

I also agree that if there is no doubt, there should be swift consequences.