Food Court Team 6 kills shoplifter
Looks like Wal-Mart security may have killed a shoplifter. I don’t that retailers can forcefully detain someone. And, in most places, deadly force to protect property is a no go.
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November 27th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
In TN, shopkeepers have the right to use reasonable force to apprehend and detain shoplifters. Deadly force is a no-no, but fights are dangerous things. People die in them sometimes.
November 28th, 2012 at 3:43 am
I work loss prevention at a major retailer. Policy dictates that we only use standing restraint positions during an apprehension and to disengage if it ever goes to the ground to avoid this sort of thing.
November 28th, 2012 at 11:12 am
There are so many possibilities, and so little information, that speculation is pointless. It could be anything from “they beat him to death” to “he died from an undiagnosed congenital heart defect while he was running, and the blood is from the impact when his already dead body faceplanted”.
November 28th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Sounds like they broke his skull in the fight. Of course, that didn’t happen because you don’t need a gun to defend yourself from a fistfight, as the hoplophobes constantly remind us.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Theft in the nighttime is a shootin’ offense here in Texas. Well technically. Wouldn’t ever want to go to court on that.
November 28th, 2012 at 8:32 pm
In most jurisdictions, a merchant can use reasonable force to detain a shoplifter.
However, a merchant does this at his peril, since he does not have sovereign immunity, and can be sued for false arrest if no crime has happened or can be proved.
If a merchant accuses you of shoplifting and wants to detain you, do as he says, but demand he call the police. If he does not, call them yourself.