A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he is hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.
Yeah. You’re right.
The daughter totally escalated the situation by bringing a baseball bat and threatening the clerk. No wonder they called the police.
And the old man, according to affidavits, was simply taken into the back of a police car without any violence to himself. Then he complained of chest pains while in the car so they called an ambulance. He was alert when the ambulance arrived.
The man had a heart condition that was aggravated due to his daughter escalating the situation and getting the police involved. And now he’s in the hospital because of her behaviour.
However this could’ve all not happened had the store employee not been a dick. So this is really all that person’s fault.
I don’t agree with that logic.
You are stripping away everyone’s free will except the employee.
At any point during this, anyone could have made different decisions and just stopped this whole thing
Yeah but the initial instigator was the clerk. That was the spark that started it all.
Friend, I already agreed to that.
My statement is that everyone here was an adult and they all made poor choices.
Granted that the dudes action was small, but now that I think about it that was actually what started it.
It should have stopped with just asking the cashier how many bananas he paid for.
They did not even need to bother asking him and risking someone just thinking they were being called a thief.
I know that is how I feel every time I get asked for a receipt, and I am a middle aged white guy in redneck country, god only knows how often he probably has to deal with it.
Do y’all’s grocery stores charge by number of bananas? Mine does if by weight. Not that I think that makes a difference, if I keep seeing people taking about paying for an extra banana so im curious.
People do it with grapes too, also sold by weight. But here we only have a few. Surely she could have typed in 1/3 extra weight and been pretty damn close
Many cashiers can’t do math tho, and if you ask them to they think you’re trying to scam them.
I think the fact that this guy had a medical flareup that the potassium in the bananas would help will help him in court, if he would even be able to go to court.
Ah ok I misunderstood.