Current Connection #2

     Jill Vejnoska has written an article on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution depicting a shoplifter who dies just outside a Lithonia Walmart. During the Black Friday shopping week when a man, whose names has not been released, stole two DVD players and tried to walk out the front door. Two of the store employees who tried to help catch the theif before the police arrived are on leave and are no longer working for Walmart. When the police arrived, they found the two employees on top of the suspect and when the police told them too they got off and let them handcuff the suspect.
    The two employee's did the right thing by trying to stop the shoplifter. They did no wrong in what they did. However, they should have aprehended him a different way. A choke hold was not nesessary unless the shoplifter was struggling, one of the workers probably snapped this man's neck or twisted it out of place in the struggle. This mistake took a poor man's life.
     "Police found the man to be unresposive and bleeding from his nose and mouth. Emergency units took him to DMC-Hillandale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead." According to Walmart Spokesperson, Dianna Gee, "the two Walmart associates involved in the incident have been suspended with pay pending the outcome of the investigation..the security officer involved will no longer be providing services to us."
     Suspending the employee was a choice that had to be made, they could have just kept right on working however, they could possibly have murder on their hands. Any walmart would know that a problem like that could not be good for buisness so the right thing to do was to suspend them, but because they really did no wrong instead of trying to save two DVD players from walking out of the store they are still being payed. Now for how long is the question....The Security Officer, or the one who had the suspect in the allieged "choke hold" was fired or put off because he was the main reason that this poor middle aged man died. He was the one who did the wrong here not the employee's. I bet it was a tough decision for the manager to make he had to let three diferent people, but he made the right decision.