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3 Walmart employees charged with manslaughter in death of shoplifter
Fox News ^ | July 29, 2016 | Fox staff

Posted on 07/29/2016 8:42:26 PM PDT by Leaning Right

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To: Leaning Right

“.....if you are going to restrain someone, you had better
know exactly what you are doing.”

You hit it right on the head. I have worked for a
residential treatment facility for the past 18 years. We work with severely emotionally disturbed teen
boys. At times some of them need to be restrained for
their own safety and the safety of others. We
receive many hours of training every year. Part of the training includes trainees reading from cases
taken from the Internet regarding kids who died
of suffocation resulting from faulty floor
restraints. It is truly sad and eye opening. We
have had both kids and staff injured in
restraints but have never had a kid pay the
ultimate price.


21 posted on 07/29/2016 9:32:47 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf.)
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To: Leaning Right

Just seems to me that if you are caught in the act of committing a crime; you forfeit any and any right to protection, including being beaten to death. If you don’t like the risks, don’t do the crime.

I would love to be on that jury. The Walmart workers would have NOTHING to fear.


22 posted on 07/29/2016 9:54:32 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Sivad

Suicide by minimum wage employee. Hope they raise it to 15.


23 posted on 07/29/2016 9:57:17 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Leaning Right

And don’t elect to do hard prison time for Walmart.


24 posted on 07/29/2016 10:11:29 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Sivad

18 years. Wow. I admire your courage and carefulness with the difficult patients and clients. Life is fragile and the disabled, ill and elderly need kid gloves and they always need a tough guardian.


25 posted on 07/29/2016 10:13:51 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Good one!


26 posted on 07/29/2016 10:17:42 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (I shot a man in Falcon Heights, just to watch him die)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“These employees really screwed the pooch.”

Dedicated employees.

Their employer, not so dedicated.

Walmart will not pay for their lawyers and Walmart will spend a day in prison.


27 posted on 07/29/2016 10:18:21 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Leaning Right

Ken felt it was worth his life to steal from WalMart.
Who are we to question his choices?


28 posted on 07/29/2016 10:43:45 PM PDT by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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To: TheDon

At least he died doing what he loved.


29 posted on 07/29/2016 10:46:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Hodar

I would be shocked if this results in a conviction, unless there’s more to the story we don’t know.

We had a high profile case a couple yrs ago. A plumber that left his car running in his driveway shot a man dead after the man hopped in the truck and drove away. The prosecutor charged him with manslaughter and it went to trial. Although the plumber made some questionable statements at the scene that should have hurt him at trial and his explanation later that he thought the thief was flashing a gun didn’t make sense (he was fleeing the scene and was quite a distance away from the plumber), the jury acquitted him and said it was justified, so his defense was paid for.

People are sick of thieves and feel they get what they deserve.


30 posted on 07/30/2016 1:47:10 AM PDT by ZagFan
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To: Leaning Right

And the very reason I tell people that citizen arrest is a really bad idea...no qualified immunity.

Police officers are trained to restrain people and recognize that positional asphyxia is a real threat. That’s why you get them handcuffed and rolled over to sit upright, providing they are still not struggling, kicking, etc.


31 posted on 07/30/2016 1:59:53 AM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: TexasGator

15 broken ribs

AS another poster noted, CPR often causes broken ribs.

“Dr. Michael Sayre, a spokesperson for the American Heart Association and a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, said broken ribs are to be expected when doing CPR and the worry of causing a break shouldn’t deter people from helping someone in cardiac arrest.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cpr-often-leads-to-broken-ribs-idUSBRE8721IF20120803


32 posted on 07/30/2016 2:11:13 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Robert DeLong

Yes


33 posted on 07/30/2016 2:43:19 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: rey

I like the way you think.


34 posted on 07/30/2016 3:38:52 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Talisker
Why on earth would you think that? Just exactly who is going to prosecute a cop? LOL, wake up. Cops do whatever they want, and you take it. Or you die.

Do you ever watch the news?

35 posted on 07/30/2016 4:11:29 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Talisker
Been mistreated by the police lately? If so, were you being an idiot?

Are you here just for the purpose of making noise or do you actually contribute anything (like maybe money for FR and/or the candidate of your choice)?

Why do I get the sense I already know the answers to the questions I posed?

36 posted on 07/30/2016 4:49:57 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Leaning Right

Well I bet he wont shoplift again.


37 posted on 07/30/2016 5:48:20 AM PDT by Craftmore
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To: Leaning Right

He wasn’t shoplifting, he was just making an undocumented purchase.


38 posted on 07/30/2016 5:54:47 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: GreenHornet

Stop undocumented purchases! We need to build a WALLmart.

Wait . . .


39 posted on 07/30/2016 6:05:01 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: BraveMan
Stop undocumented purchases! We need to build a WALLmart.

.....and get Target to pay for it!

40 posted on 07/30/2016 8:09:59 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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