this poor schmuck is working 2 jobs. he was hired to check receipts as shoppers left the store because of shoplifting,,, and he got shot for asking for a receipt. no word/interest on if said shopper had a receipt,, or was stealing. this is a bad precedent. if shopper didn't have a receipt, attempted murder, if he did,,,, self defense? An Anchorage security guard was shot while doing his job. Prosecutors say they can’t disprove self-defense.
I have been on a grand jury. The way it is loaded with only the law enforcement side presenting facts and not really having to present all of the facts and reporting information that does not have to be fact checked. You could indite a cheese sandwich for illegally not having mustard. Anyone who expects justice in our present system is a fool. Statues all over the place of a man resisting arrest, over dosing on drugs, bad heart, and being restrained by a method the policeman was taught to use as it reduces the chances of both the detainee and the officer being hurt. Not only is he in prison but so are his fellow officers who were watching a near mob scene and not the actions of the senior officer and in some cases the training officer. Well I guess it had one positive effect, it made some of the leadership of BLM very rich and his family also collected some millions. If he had just stayed seated in the back of the police car while waiting for the ambulance, he could of died on his own dime and they would have had to find another hero.
Asking/Demanding a receipt could be considered Illegal Search and Seizure, so on the one hand, it SHOULD be against the law for any NON LEO to Request/Demand proof, while on the other hand, I understand rampant theft has driven many retailers to close up locations! I don't have a solution, BUT, I can see both sides of this, and can see how something like would eventually happen!
It is all becoming a moot question. The only way the whole concept of the open style, self shopping, self checkout system works is with an honest shopper and a control system using receipts to keep the sheep honest. If you lose the ability to control the receipts, don't jail or fine shop lifters, don't allow people to check for them on the products that leave the stores, play gotcha with the store and sue he## out of the store for a technical mistake in a location where the police, judge, and jury will always find the big box store owner guilty as they deserve to pay. I don't shop in many stores as I am limited to those with the powered chairs. Pushing a cart with a walker or wheel chair doesn't work, I also don't shop in those were a group of feral teenagers roam around for 20 min and then leaving with one out of twenty buying a power drink and the rest nothing, In my local supermarket I know the store manager. He works for a chain that promotes from within and 30 years ago he bagged my groceries as a teenager. While in one sense I will not spend $2 for a nickel candy bar or pack of gum, I can see the store's point in at least trying to make people pay for them. He tried to have someone "accompany" the groups and "aid" them in their shopping. The big boss found found out about in one day and told him to stop. It had been tried and they were promptly sued for harassment by some "civil rights" group and settled by "donating" a few million to some "equality" organization. Never went to court as the threat of headlines in the mass media and protesters at their stores, think of Target, made a mockery out of winning in the long run. He also can not stop the 20 that leave the store in a group without going thru the checkout lanes. They don't have receipts as they have not "purchased" anything. One token may buy a sports drink or no one may buy anything. He is for all practical purposes also unable to check that they have taken anything, even if he has a video of them pocketing it. Doing so is racial profiling and harassment. He said it is just written off as a cost of doing business. I also noticed that most of the new store openings are in "safer" rural areas and the store closings are in under preforming urban areas. The only answer the stores can implement is to package the product in a larger volume so it can not easily be pocketed or consumed in the store, or closing the stores that reach unacceptable losses. Both of these options harm the poor and elderly. I live alone, will be 88 next week, walk with a walker, and have chemo every 2 weeks. I no longer shop in the malls even with assistance with elderly aids pushing my wheel chair. They have little that interests me , I find the groups of youth wandering around uncomfortable, and with Prime, I can get it in a couple days from Amazon on my deck next to the door and usually cheaper. This reaches the point in which you end up with a model of two options. Lower cost self standing big box stores, often with "membership" fees and cards necessary for entrance, or being a "safe" distance from any area with a large feral population and careful siting the store in an area where there is no mass transport to that location. The example usually used is the Mall of America in Minn and the light rail connection to the "lower income areas" of the city. My brother lived 60 miles from the mall in a rural area. They used to take a bunch of the family and go to it for Christmas shopping and such, That came to a complete halt with the individual that at random threw a kid off the second floor. Thee were becoming less than comfortable with the other "shoppers" and that just confirmed their beliefs. They were upset as they said it used to be such a beautiful place to shop.
Wally World had the "talk" going around a couple years ago about canceling self-chek out because of theft >> nothing happened suddenly - absolutely noooo advance word to even the employees - self-chek out was closed and dismantled - the old fashion cashier chek-outs were installed - no employees hired to run them - freaking God damn nut house of confusion - 40 self-chek outs gone and only 6-8 cashiers available ......
what this makes me think first, is the police have NO authority I don't have, I cannot delegate to them authority I did not already have.
