NEWS: Shoplifter Killed For Stealing Diapers

Since when do people have that much pride in their retail job anyway? Most people hate their jobs and the companies they work for.. feeling like they are overworked and underpaid as it is. Why should they care if someone got one over on their company. Why care if someone stole something? I think its the mentality of.. "I wouldn't get away with it.. so this person shouldn't be allowed to get away with it either."

Stealing is a crime, yes.. but hats why there are law enforcement agencies.

It's probably them trying to make their monotonous, poorly paying job seem more important, or exciting.
I always found that stealing cigarettes, and taking breaks I wasn't supposed to take, and watching inappropriate movies in the electronics department made working at k-mart suck less. . .

No real need at this point; Austin has pretty much already had most of its soul sucked out and everything that was ever cool about it ruined by the massive influx of californians in the last 5-10 years anyway....

Or that somebody actually made the effort to drag a rug into the parking lot so he wouldn't have to lie skin-to-ashphalt, was told to get rid of it and acquiesced.

It's events liek this that grate away at my faith in humanity.

I help catch shoplifters at my store. If you see a crime you have a duty to use reasonable means to stop it. now common sense should tell you that blacktop is in fact hot. I'm surprised the peaple holding him down didn't get burned.
That said Most shoplifters who struggle will keep struggling rather then just peacefully wait for the police. And they always say they can't breathe, always.
I've seen a guy pretend to fall, and then get up and fall again. after the third fall we noticed he was inching towards the door so we grabbed him again.
So basically most of these shoplifters are assholes who want to use your compassion to escape. That makes it harder for the employees to be compassionate. We want them to just sit down and wait or just come to the office. And some do.
But I think in this case the employees may have been over eager in restaining the guy and so I think some charges should be filed But I don't think they serve jailtime cause I belive it was a accident.

So Walmart employees are now allowed to handcuff and detain people? Or is that a separately hired security staff?

I haven't been in a Walmart since I was seventeen when the wheelchair bound greeter lady shrieked at me and my friends for shoplifting. Even though we hadn't. We were going IN to the store at the time.

I've never heard of department stores having staff trained and legally allowed to handcuff people. I've certainly never seen it in practice. I hope Walmart takes a serious look at their policy after this and stops being so cheap and actually does proper training to prevent this from happening again.

There are several worlds of difference between "compassionate" and "not torturing someone to death." I get the point you're trying to make but it's completely irrelevant because it's clear they could've moved this guy or allowed him to lie on the rug.

I live in Texas and let me tell you, I'm leaving as soon as I can. I hate people here.

There are stupid people everywhere in the world.

The whole situation is just fucked up.

It makes me sad that people can do something like this to each other
Is North American society that dehumanised? Roman empire part 2- bring on the bread and circusses.