...(paraphrasing) so if our valued employee would have been shot full of holes our fancy security cameras would have got an nice clean image of the murderer so his family could get a good look at the [insert awful word(s) here] that murdered him, and we could get good footage of exactly where we would need to bleach the blood stains out of the floor after the medics carried his carcass out...
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I wonder how many thousands of that form letter they sent out since this happened?
By the time the employee would have tried to get on the floor in an unthreatening position he would have been shot several times if the attempted murderer's gun would have went off. The perp wasn't saying "get down on the floor or I'll fill you full of holes" he was already firing a weapon that wouldn't cooperate with him at the Walgreens employee. Even if he did, he was already firing. You can not comply with a person shooting at you. The pharmacist used his last line of defense to protect his life. He was not protecting Walgreen's money in the register or Walgreen's property on the shelves (and he'd be a fool to do so). He was simply trying to stay alive.
Could the Walgreens employee have shot a customer or another employee, or even someone outside the building? It's possible, but the odds are much better that if the robber's gun would have went off, we'd be talking about a pharmacist's funeral rather than his employer firing him.
When I was a kid, I remember watching the body bags being wheeled out of a local Osco Drug store on Western Ave. in South Bend, IN, on TV. I wonder if those folks complied with the wishes of their murderer?
Whether or not this guy did it, he did steal from his employer and was fired for it. Some people get mad, some get even, some get away with getting even. http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/4971976.html
Sorry, I digress. The ex-employee is suing Walgreens. I would have sued for failing to provide a safe work environment, but he chose to sue for wrongful termination.
Note to Walgreens: Either get armed guards to protect your employees or allow your employees to take reasonable measures to protect themselves if your lawyers want to dream up policy such as this non-confrontation BS. Cameras don't protect anyone. Criminals like the ones in this case do not fear them.
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