WHAT'S TRUE: Target stores filed a lawsuit against Michael Turner over a 2013 stabbing incident in one of their stores.So, not quite the simplistic story we thought
WHAT'S FALSE: Target did not sue Turner for saving a girl from being stabbed in their store.
However, Michael Turner was not sued merely for his having saved Allison Meadows from being stabbed. Rather, Target claimed that Turner and others had recklessly endangered customers when they brought a confrontation that had started outdoors into the store. News articles published at the time of the incident in March 2013, as well as articles published in July 2015 when the lawsuits were filed, detailed the events leading up to the attack on Meadows:According to the criminal complaint, the incident began when Walls stabbed a man named Jobe Wright near a construction site on nearby Highland Avenue. Police said Walls ran down the street toward Penn Circle and into Target, followed by Wright, his friend Michael Turner, and Tyrique Walker, who called 911 to report their location, and Roland Smith, who grabbed a baseball bat to help Wright.
Once they were all inside the store, "Walls saw Walker and attempted to stab him with a large swing at his neck area," the complaint said. "Walls, missing his target, then moved towards the checkout area at the Target store where he began trying to stab additional victims who were in the store. Walls then grabbed Allison Meadows and held her against her will at knifepoint in one of the checkout lanes to use her as a shield. Victims Hosea Davis, Mike Turner, Jobe Wright and Roland Smith attempted to subdue Walls and to free Meadows when they saw him poke the knife into Meadows' back."
The guy stabs someone and is chased then runs into Target. . .choices are to pursue to stop him (no telling what walls will do), or just stand outside and do nothing.
But they were simply following the stabber who fled into the store
Snopes is notoriously left-wing when determining truth from fiction.
Had those individuals who spotted Walls committing his deadly crimes been armed, most of us would be accepting their own use of deadly force to put an end to Walls' actions.
Snopes is very left leaning
Take whatever they say with every bit the grain of salt you are giving the original story by doing a snopes check.
This has been posted twice and I’m going to repeat it: Snopes is Leftwing.
I don’t see that the Snopes version materially changes anything.
I put no credence whatsoever into anything that the liberal dipsquats at Snopes says about anything.
They lie, obfuscate and advocate...their agenda is specifically liberal and they barely try to hide it anymore.
So...Snopes...fail.
Seems to me that the perp led the fracus into the store. I don’t see any way that the hero ‘chased him into store’. That implies ‘HERDING’ such as is done to cattle & horses & sheep.