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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
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To: artichokegrower
Although brazen stealing is frustrating, costly and dangerous to store employees, confronting it with violence that far exceeds self-defense is not the answer. It is *EXACTLY* the answer.
People are sick of the law protecting criminals from the public, and now the public is starting to do something about it.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:00:18 PM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: BenLurkin
These “journalists” had better hope the local violent criminal element will spare them and their loved ones.
Famous producer and musician Al Kooper (Blood Sweat and Tears, played on Like A Rolling Stone and Electric Ladyland with Jimi Hendrix)
said he had always supported civil rights. One night he was surrounded by blacks in front and behind. He quickly gave his wallet, ring and watch.
They brutally beat him anyway. As he painfully slumped to the sidewalk as they kicked and stomped him he said he thought “Hey, guys, I was always on your side. I was always for you guys.”
Re-told in Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Survivor.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:01:01 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: artichokegrower
If the law has abrogated their duty, then the law should FO and leave the citizens to fix the problem.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:01:02 PM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: Bounced2X
It’s what they want. They push Anarcho-tyranny so that vigilantes will rise up.
Then a Federal Police force will be the solution.
Order out of chaos…
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:01:41 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: artichokegrower
MODESTO BEE EDITORIAL BOARD loves to stand up for the criminal elements in society.
To: JBW1949
Nothing a visit by those store clerks wouldn’t fix.
To: gibsonguy
The system of pseudo-justice causes people to have to do the work themselves, at terrible risk to their rights.
Putting all the weights on the criminals’ side of the balance scale for justice means it is not justice.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:04:06 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: artichokegrower
They didn’t go too far. They allowed him to live.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:06:21 PM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
(You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
To: frank ballenger
He was always on the side of muggers?
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:07:23 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: meyer
In a better age, the cops would have joined in with their night sticks.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:07:48 PM PDT
by
I-ambush
(We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
To: artichokegrower
Yes he absolutely told them
He was armed no way I’m letting the little turn up if I go the jump on him.
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:11:19 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: artichokegrower
Although brazen stealing is frustrating, costly and dangerous to store employees, confronting it with violence that far exceeds self-defense is not the answer. Completely and totally the answer.
There was some lowlife in the UK who would go into people's homes and scare them for fun and "clicks". When asked why he said that no one would stop him and so it was ok. If it was wrong they would beat him. By their not beating him it meant they were weak, he was strong and it was ok for the strong to abuse the weak.
Let the beatings begin.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:11:40 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
To: AAABEST
In a more sane world, the employees would’ve been.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:11:48 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: meyer
They were literally whipping his butt. Not his head or his ribs or his belly. Pain, not permanent injury.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:13:15 PM PDT
by
heartwood
(Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
To: kiryandil
If they did anything about criminals they might get a boo-boo.
But law abiding people will not attack the police therefore it is perfectly safe to make their lives a living hell.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:13:32 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Like the employees getting the upper hand the US had the war won. Historically illiterate.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:15:34 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
To: artichokegrower
Sorry. Just as you said, if he says he’s got a gun that’s the point at which he’s paid for. It ought to be simple.
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:16:41 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
(XY, XYim, XY's)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This story is just as stupid as that comment by Chicago mayor Johnson about “mobs”...
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:16:54 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: Fresh Wind
Black market...No pun intended.....
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posted on
08/06/2023 12:19:18 PM PDT
by
Hambone 1934
(Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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