Posted on 07/29/2016 8:42:26 PM PDT by Leaning Right
Three Walmart workers in Florida have been charged with manslaughter in the February death of a shoplifter, police said Friday.
They are accused of suffocating Kenneth Wisham, 64, after he tried to steal $380 worth of DVDs in a shopping cart from the Walmart on North Road 98 in Lakeland Feb. 7, Fox 13 Tampa reported.
The station reported that the employees chased Wisham, who fell. They then held him on the ground.
As he was being restrained, Wisham stopped breathing.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“.....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.
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.
Suicide by minimum wage employee. Hope they raise it to 15.
And don’t elect to do hard prison time for Walmart.
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.
Good one!
“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.
Ken felt it was worth his life to steal from WalMart.
Who are we to question his choices?
At least he died doing what he loved.
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.
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.
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
Yes
I like the way you think.
Do you ever watch the news?
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?
Well I bet he wont shoplift again.
He wasn’t shoplifting, he was just making an undocumented purchase.
Stop undocumented purchases! We need to build a WALLmart.
Wait . . .
.....and get Target to pay for it!
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