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Stockton 7-11 clerks went too far in viciously beating brazen shoplifter | Opinion
Modesto Bee ^ | AUGUST 05, 2023 | THE MODESTO BEE EDITORIAL BOARD

Posted on 08/06/2023 11:44:25 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Store clerks have legal options when someone shoplifts. Teaming up to brutally beat the thief isn’t one of them. No wonder two 7-11 clerks in Stockton who battered a would-be shoplifter with a wooden rod are being investigated by police, as reported on TV news. Although brazen stealing is frustrating, costly and dangerous to store employees, confronting it with violence that far exceeds self-defense is not the answer.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 711; beating; california; crime; lootie; mcclatchy; sikhs; stockton; stocktoncalifornia
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The thief told the clerks to back off as he had a gun. At that time any type of force including deadly would be appropriate.
1 posted on 08/06/2023 11:44:25 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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No wonder two 7-11 clerks in Stockton who battered a would-be shoplifter with a wooden rod are being investigated by police,

Because OF COURSE the police are investigating the victims of the crime.

2 posted on 08/06/2023 11:45:58 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: artichokegrower

Are the “editors” at the Modesto Bee unaware of the nation-wide crime wave which is sweeping over American cities?


3 posted on 08/06/2023 11:46:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Should have beat the POS to death then been given keys to the city.


4 posted on 08/06/2023 11:46:57 AM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: kiryandil

Well,the thief needed it for his babies...Any dem will tell us that....


5 posted on 08/06/2023 11:47:01 AM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: artichokegrower

It is the answer. It totally is.

Democrat socialists and RINOs running cities and court systems are not the answer.


6 posted on 08/06/2023 11:47:37 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: artichokegrower

Given the current state of American legal system, local Committees of Vigilance could be warranted.


7 posted on 08/06/2023 11:47:42 AM PDT by Paladin2
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8 posted on 08/06/2023 11:47:42 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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“ 7-11 clerks went too far in viciously beating brazen shoplifter”

Funny, l didn’t think they went far enough


9 posted on 08/06/2023 11:48:06 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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Although brazen stealing is frustrating, costly and dangerous to store employees, confronting it with violence that far exceeds self-defense is not the answer.

No, Modesto Bee, it is the exact RIGHT answer.

10 posted on 08/06/2023 11:48:17 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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He said he had a gun

I was in fear for my life

He was still moving

I did not have a gun

He was still a threat


11 posted on 08/06/2023 11:48:22 AM PDT by algore
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I disagree with the headline. Those two men are heroes.


12 posted on 08/06/2023 11:49:09 AM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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Clearly the peasants complain too much.

/s


13 posted on 08/06/2023 11:49:25 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Effing Modesto Bee.

We need *more* of that sort of response to thieves, not less. We all heard how cocky the thief was before he justifiably got his ass beaten.

More of this. Lots more. Then you’ll see significantly less of this brazen shoplifting.


14 posted on 08/06/2023 11:49:33 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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I disagree - shoplifters need a good butt whippin’. Especially ones that blatantly flaunt their act, as if nobody will stop them. They gave him one.


15 posted on 08/06/2023 11:50:10 AM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: BenLurkin

#13


16 posted on 08/06/2023 11:50:12 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: algore

Toward the end, the Sikh should have used the stick less like a bat and more like a bayonet.


17 posted on 08/06/2023 11:50:25 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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Nope, nope and more nope.
It’s the ONLY language these ferals understand.
They have absolutely NO respect for law and order, other peoples’ property, privacy, etc.
What they should have done was beat his nuts in to a bloody pulp so that every time it takes a leak, it remembers....


18 posted on 08/06/2023 11:50:37 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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Soon enough, there will be a thousand Paul Kerseys.


19 posted on 08/06/2023 11:51:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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WTH is wrong with Modesto Bee?????


20 posted on 08/06/2023 11:51:09 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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