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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]jeff47
(26,549 posts)115. Apparently, you think one can drive while dead.
She wasn't the driver.
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Walmart security guard shoots 'shoplifting' mother dead in parking lot as she tries to escape with t [View all]
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