I personally witnessed two assaults on suspected shoplifters who both turned out not to have shoplifted at all, by employees of Home Depot and the other at a grocery store. In both cases the suspect was injured, in one case pretty bad. Bad enough to have an ambulance called. So are we going to argue that it was alright because they “thought” he took something.
This is similar in that a woman was killed by the employees in their zest to apprehend a suspect that may or not have been guilty of anything at that point. The responsibility for this tragedy is on Walmart, not on the guy they were running after. If he was a shoplifter, bad on him, but he is not the one who endangered this woman and ultimately
killed her.
From the article, we don’t know that the suspect was doing anything other than Blythefully walking to his car. The assault almost for sure happened AFTER the women was injured, since the security boys wouldn’t have approached him until he exited the store and the greeter would have been inside. Him assaulting someone after she was hurt can’t be a contributing factor in her injury.