And, why assume that a thief, who might be looking to get-away quick, would park head-in? I'm no thief and I always look for a spot that doesn't require backing out.
They'd need to back out because there's that infernal concrete or steel pole in the middle ~
“... why assume that a thief, who might be looking to get-away quick, would park head-in?”
From the article linked at #79: “Campbell followed them into the parking lot, where the shoplifting suspects climbed into a waiting car.”
I am just trying to shed a little sanity, The question you forgot to ask, is a human life worth less than a couple of steaks?
Or
Why is a guy drawing a GUN in a Walmart Parking lot?!
The security cameras had her license. There was no reason to push this into a life or death situation. In my job we are constantly hammered with safety this and safety that. So, apply safety to this issue. Why did this rent a cop push this issue to a situation that was life threatening to himself, and the innocent shoppers around him? Obviously this escalated way beyond what it should have, and I don't think that anybody really wants cops having shootouts in Walmart parking lots when they come for groceries.
This was stupid, it ended up with two children without a mother, and a grieving family and could have caused this idiot girl to run over other shoppers or the stupid cop to blow away someone in my family trying to recapture that fleeing ground round.
What is shocking to me is the incredible callous lack of respect for life that I am seeing here. Some idiot called me a liberal because I am sane and told me to never come back!
This is a conservative, Christian Values, family website. Not a kill the negro, redneck stomp session.
This was a human being, that was steaks, and the whole thing is STUPID.