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Shoplifting call ends with gunfire as police officer shoots into car outside Walmart, killing child, MBI says
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π™ˆπ™žπ™– quokk.au Quokka@quokk.au
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Derik Shaw, a local resident, voiced concerns about the decision to confront the vehicle in the parking lot.

"They are supposed to trail her home… get her tag number," Shaw said. "Like they said β€” stop chasing people."

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VitoRobles lemmy.today VitoRobles@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-01-26
#2 · Quote Reply

This is insane.

Guns out because of shoplifting?

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Sanctus anarchist.nexus Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
Joined: 2025-09-08
#3 · Quote Reply

Its shoplifting. No one's life should be on the line. We have created a society where you totally can steal an entire cart of fucking groceries and no one dies in the winter due to the looting. Guns should never come out when investigating a fucking shoplifting where nobody was injured. Its not a fucken violent crime.

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Doc_Crankenstein slrpnk.net Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-01-08
#4 · Quote Reply

Whoever called the pigs in the first place deserves to get violent colon cancer.

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winkerjadams lemmy.dbzer0.com winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-22
#5 · Quote Reply

Whoever called the pigs in the first place deserves to get violent colon cancer.

Probably just some near minimum wage manager trying to do their job :/

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Doc_Crankenstein slrpnk.net Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-01-08
#6 · Quote Reply

Probably just some near minimum wage manager trying to do their job :/

"trying to do their job" is a pitiful excuse.

It is a choice to have solidarity and with your fellow working-class and look the other way instead of protecting the profit of some company.

They can't prove you saw anything.

And what are you so afraid of to begin with? Ending up just like that individual who has to steal to make ends meet, hoping that those just like you will turn their cheek so you can have a chance to survive? Be that person for them, because one day you might be in their shoes. That's the point of working class solidarity.

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Phoenixz lemmy.ca phoenixz@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-10
#7 · Quote Reply

"trying to do their job" is a pitiful excuse. It is a choice to have solidarity and with your fellow working-class and look the other way instead of protecting the profit of some company. They can't prove you saw anything. And what are you so afraid of to begin with? Ending up just like that individual who has to steal to make ends meet, hoping that those just like you will turn their cheek so ...

I will assume you're young and haven't had much responsibility to carry

Wait until you are a manager and have to explain why theft is now so high, endangering your job which you rely on to feed your kids, then we'll talk again

You talk like life is so easy

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Doc_Crankenstein slrpnk.net Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-01-08
#8 · Quote Reply

I will assume you're young and haven't had much responsibility to carry Wait until you are a manager and have to explain why theft is now so high, endangering your job which you rely on to feed your kids, then we'll talk again You talk like life is so easy

Way to completely miss the point of solidarity.

You talk like everyone who has lived through revolutionary times didn't also have to face those same challenges.

No one said resistance was easy. We are saying it is necessary.

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Phoenixz lemmy.ca phoenixz@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-10
#9 · Quote Reply

Way to completely miss the point of solidarity. You talk like everyone who has lived through revolutionary times didn't also have to face those same challenges. No one said resistance was easy. We are saying it is necessary.

Sure! So everyone should just constantly risk their future, the lives of their children, because you want a revolution. Was that the point?

Like I said, you must be young and sheltered, and lead an easy life with little care in the world because you don't know what you're talking about

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Olgratin_Magmatoe slrpnk.net Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-12-19
#10 · (edited) Quote Reply

I will assume you're young and haven't had much responsibility to carry Wait until you are a manager and have to explain why theft is now so high, endangering your job which you rely on to feed your kids, then we'll talk again You talk like life is so easy

Walmart has very strong loss prevention.
Even from a boot licking management position, there was no need to call the cops.

And now a kid is dead.

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Doc_Crankenstein slrpnk.net Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-01-08
#11 · Quote Reply

Sure! So everyone should just constantly risk their future, the lives of their children, because you want a revolution. Was that the point? Like I said, you must be young and sheltered, and lead an easy life with little care in the world because you don't know what you're talking about

And again you miss the point.

Be gone with you if you have not even an inkling of class consciousness and solidarity with your fellow oppressed.

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Lucidlethargy sh.itjust.works Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-28
#12 · Quote Reply

A baby. The officer killed a baby.

They were one years old, that's not just a child. It's a baby.

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