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In reply to the discussion: Walmart security guard shoots 'shoplifting' mother dead in parking lot as she tries to escape with t [View all]OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)69. The "truth hurts" the most when when you start to understand that....
...Walmart undercuts the pricing of just about every local store. That pretty much forces people to shop there if they're on a strict budget, no matter how they might feel about the store personally. Principle sometimes gets outweighed by necessity. I'm not sure why that seems so hard to understand.
Look around...it's not just Walmart workers being exploited these days.
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ashling
Dec 2012
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i think we can know with as much certainty as whether she intended to run him over.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#16
Right.... He just wanted to wound her in the arm so she could only drive with one hand.
Whovian
Dec 2012
#21
If you pull a gun and shoot at a person, every training class will tell you that it is to kill said
Whovian
Dec 2012
#24
Having never taken a "training class", I wouldnt know that to be true or false.
bunnies
Dec 2012
#27
He was a Harris County Sheriff's Deputy in uniform who first confronted them outside the door.
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#50
He wasnt "some lunatic" "running around a Walmart Parking lot with a loaded gun"
bunnies
Dec 2012
#56
If there was a serial killer who murdered and pissed on joggers in Runyon Canyon...
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2012
#14
You seem very certain of what actions the officer could have taken to avoid being run over.
bunnies
Dec 2012
#15
Well - if a car as trying to run me over, ah'd figger the driver was the one aiming at me.
geckosfeet
Dec 2012
#68
There's an exception in Texas. The property has to be tangible and movable,
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#18
He shot in self defense while being threatened with bodily injury. Not for the scumbag thievery. n/t
gradient
Dec 2012
#84
Sure. We are an example to the world that violence is the solution for all of our problems.
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#109
This puzzles me as well. Drivers fleeing cops seems to be Standard Operating Procedure...
Eleanors38
Dec 2012
#43
How did they get the two kids into the car and buckled into their child seats before this happened?
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#20
This wasn't just a Walmart or guard service employee -- he was a uniformed law enforcement officer
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#41
There's really no such thing as a off duty sworn law enforcement officer
former-republican
Dec 2012
#42
Some police are there to make the world a better place, some are there to enjoy control over others.
Democratopia
Dec 2012
#35
Well, your "truth might hurt" a mass of people who probably don't need anymore hurt...
Eleanors38
Dec 2012
#61
I'm going to guess that you don't live in a rural area. WalMart is usually the only choice.
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#106
I do live in a rural area and I choose not to shop at a merciless shithole like W
MichiganVote
Dec 2012
#107
I am standing up for the millions who are exploited by Walmart. Inclu. you it seems.
MichiganVote
Dec 2012
#164
No, you're living in a very small world and refusing to consider the world is bigger
jeff47
Dec 2012
#166
not trying to open the door of a moving car and stand in it might have helped, too....
mike_c
Dec 2012
#71
Apparently Walmart did not drill it into this guys head that it's cheaper to let it go.
Pacafishmate
Dec 2012
#80
100% the fault of republican-party backer Walmart and its repressionist policies and gun violence
BanTheGOP
Dec 2012
#99
That area around Greens Road, Greenspoint Mall, known as "Gunspoint" already, and that Wal-Mart
txwhitedove
Dec 2012
#101
Could you point out where that order calls for her execution if she does go in a Wal-Mart? (nt)
jeff47
Dec 2012
#125
I think it's horrifying this idiot took the life of a person over merchandise
flamingdem
Dec 2012
#134
Local magistrates and police are overwhelmed by Walmart shoplifting cases.
PA Democrat
Dec 2012
#140
Did I miss the part where she was tried and convicted of shoplifting?
Horse with no Name
Dec 2012
#142
$$$$$ first, profit first, deaths ... just collateral damage. People last. n/t
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#153