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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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.
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.
If the law has abrogated their duty, then the law should FO and leave the citizens to fix the problem.
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…
MODESTO BEE EDITORIAL BOARD loves to stand up for the criminal elements in society.
Nothing a visit by those store clerks wouldn’t fix.
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.
They didn’t go too far. They allowed him to live.
He was always on the side of muggers?
In a better age, the cops would have joined in with their night sticks.
Yes he absolutely told them
He was armed no way I’m letting the little turn up if I go the jump on him.
That’s right.
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.
In a more sane world, the employees would’ve been.
They were literally whipping his butt. Not his head or his ribs or his belly. Pain, not permanent injury.
But law abiding people will not attack the police therefore it is perfectly safe to make their lives a living hell.
Historically illiterate.
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.
This story is just as stupid as that comment by Chicago mayor Johnson about “mobs”...
Black market...No pun intended.....
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