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Fired Best Buy security guard who tackled suspect outside California store can have his [tr]
NY Daily News ^ | 29 January 2019 | David Boroff

Posted on 01/29/2019 8:25:23 AM PST by oh8eleven

FULL TITLE = "Fired Best Buy security guard who tackled suspect outside California store can have his job back, company says"

The employee had been discharged for violating company policy after helping law enforcement apprehend Timothy Trujillo outside the Roseville store earlier this month. However, Best Buy said in a statement to the Daily News on Tuesday that it has taken "another look at what happened."

"In the end, we understand he made a split-second decision to do what he thought was right and, while we wish he hadn’t put himself or anyone else at risk, we regret our initial decision and will be offering him his job back," the statement read.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bestbuy; california; footshooting; roseville; timothytrujillo
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Well, good for Best Buy. It's about time companies stopped making knee-jerk, PC decisions.
1 posted on 01/29/2019 8:25:23 AM PST by oh8eleven
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Best Buy got inundated with hate mail. Boycott threats etc. He should demand a raise


2 posted on 01/29/2019 8:28:05 AM PST by albie
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To: oh8eleven

Why would a company hire a security guard if they didn’t expect “security”? Any diminished or restricted role would be something more like a greeter.


3 posted on 01/29/2019 8:29:15 AM PST by pfflier
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Why would a company hire a security guard if they didn’t expect “security”?
A question asked by millions.
4 posted on 01/29/2019 8:30:53 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven
Once he gets his job back, he should try to arrest Best Buy for being the biggest ripoff in electronics.

How on earth are they even still in business?

5 posted on 01/29/2019 8:31:04 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: albie

Back pay for all hours lost .


6 posted on 01/29/2019 8:31:43 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: oh8eleven

The police should offer him a job.


7 posted on 01/29/2019 8:33:39 AM PST by wattsgnu
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To: dead

You min at hate BB but don’t post lies.


8 posted on 01/29/2019 8:33:55 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: dead

I prefer shopping at the Buy More.


9 posted on 01/29/2019 8:35:25 AM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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Fired Best Buy security guard who tackled suspect outside California store can have his job back

Thread from yesterday 1-28-2019

10 posted on 01/29/2019 8:35:29 AM PST by deport
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Seen a guy run out of Home Depot with a wheel borrow full of electric saws.
The guy from Home Depot yelled stop...I said why not get him? Against Company Policy once he is outside door.


11 posted on 01/29/2019 8:37:36 AM PST by mplc51
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This wasn’t a knee jerk PC decision, it was a policy.. brought on by fear of liability and insurance companies and lawyers...

That’s what this was about.. BEST BUY doesn’t care about doing the right thing, just not getting sued of having liability...

They are cowards, like all corporations


12 posted on 01/29/2019 8:38:30 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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If they have decided to ‘take a second look’ at such terminations, the policy may as well be officially discarded.
I don’t like it, but I understand the logic that a store would choose to avoid liability at all costs.

If this has changed, good, but they should still have some policy limiting the corporation’s liability in case the burglar wants to sue for bruised knees or whatever.
A good friend of mine lost his job that way at a local grocery store. He was a cashier until a shoplifter decided to walk away with a cart full of not paid for merchandise.


13 posted on 01/29/2019 8:38:57 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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" "Fired Best Buy security guard who tackled suspect outside California store can have his job back, company says"

Nah, I think a big fat, "let's change the earnings projections for next quarter" settlement for all the mental anguish the idiots caused this law abiding citizen would be better?

14 posted on 01/29/2019 8:39:10 AM PST by Sa-teef
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To: deport

Correction to link for thread from yesterday

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3723549/posts


15 posted on 01/29/2019 8:40:25 AM PST by deport
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Big chain stores almost all have a policy - employees may not pursue, engage or touch a shoplifter in any way. Call mall security or the cops, and step aside.

My nephew worked at Dicks Sporting Goods. He said given the design of their store combined with that “no pursuit” policy, if some of the local yutes/thugs had half a brain and were organized, they could clean out the entire store in 3 minutes.


16 posted on 01/29/2019 8:41:56 AM PST by PGR88
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You min at hate BB but don’t post lies.

I have no idea what that means.

17 posted on 01/29/2019 8:42:07 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: pfflier

The recent ‘I’m just a monitor’ commercials come to mind. Society has come to expect people to not get involved, often with tragic consequences.


18 posted on 01/29/2019 8:42:26 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: oh8eleven
"In the end, we understand he made a split-second decision to do what he thought was right and, while we wish he hadn’t put himself or anyone else at risk, we regret our initial decision and will be offering him his job back," the statement read.

Save this response for all future overreactions.

19 posted on 01/29/2019 8:43:32 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: pfflier

Observe and report I guess.


20 posted on 01/29/2019 8:43:32 AM PST by V_TWIN
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