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Showing Original Post only (View all)WalMart: License to Kill? [View all]
Has anyone else been paying attention to the Escalating number of people WalMart security guards have killed in the last several weeks for shoplifting offenses? There's another one in the news today, and it seems like there have been a dozen or so executed on the spot by WalMart security guards since Black Friday.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245074/Walmart-security-guard-shoots-shoplifting-mother-dead-parking-lot-tries-escape-young-children.html
Why is this being allowed to continue with impunity? Since when do we allow corporations to summarily play cop, judge, jury and executioner for misdemeanor offenses with nary a peep of public outrage?
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it wasnt walmart who told him to use deadly force. he made tbat decision and i wasnt there
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#14
well as i said thees no way walmart told an off duty cop that they had to kill shoplifters
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#38
Why are you surprised after you chose to play "judge, jury" after reading an article on the internet
jody
Dec 2012
#6
havent seen the video but he was probiably taken to the ground for resisting not shoplifting
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#12
yup sometimes they do but they uave to effect the arrest and its hard to judge what you are up
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#17
wish they had caught the takedown as we have no idea the amount of force used or if he simply hit
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#20
you do realise in this video all you see is the cops cuff him and then render first aid
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#24
And the recent factory fire- their compliance people signed off on it's safety very recently.
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#16
you know just about every cop carries off duty as they still have arrest powers and a duty
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#25
nope a paddle holster in the small of the back allows you play golf easily.
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#31