Quote Originally Posted by zzdank
Yea am not saying it is right to shoplift but am mean cmon get serious 5 walmart emploeys pinned down a singal guy onto a very hot surface you think that is the right punishment for shoplifting? What did the emploeys get a raise for killing a shoplifter? Someone should go kick the living shit out of the 5 people that did this.
I can't attest to Walmart loss-prevention training methods, but I doubt it says anywhere in the LP training manual that employees should pin the suspect down while waiting for the police to arrive. Like I mentioned earlier, protocol for the company I worked for was to detain the subject if it was feasible to do so. Otherwise, just let the person go. Employees have no idea whether or not these shoplifters could be armed with a weapon, on drugs like PCP, or whatever. My employees weren't even allowed to carry handcuffs, so coercion was their only way. Hell, I carried handcuffs and a registered firearm, and only had to use handcuffs once... but I was trained by actual cops how to properly apprehend someone and how to defend myself against an attack with a weapon. I doubt Walmart cashiers are given this kind of training before being let loose at the notoriously dangerous cash registers.