This is Cleveland. Just don’t try it, punk.
"The robbers demanded the employees get on the ground at gunpoint. Three employees complied and the robbers walked up to the cash register, police said.
Three other employees pulled out their own guns and fired several shots at the duo, killing Jackson."
Do you want lead with that Taco? Asshole?
You threaten people’s lives and sometimes they fight back.
Too bad the other guy got away. He can get an accessory to murder charge. He participated in a felony when someone lost their life.
So what’s going to happen to the employees? I think in some other cases in which employees fought back against or chased a robber, they were fired for violating company policy.
I hope they don’t lose their exciting careers in Taco Bell. All the diarrhea they can poop!
I’m not sure if I would want to go to the awful extreme of deading a man to protect a Taco Bell.
But it’s comforting Fast Food employees in America pack heat.
Meh. If they hadn’t tried to rob the place, he wouldn’t have gotten shot. Think of it as Evolution In Action.
You remember the Brown’s Chicken incident? If someone pulled a gun in a fast food restaurant I’m comfortable with the folks there using whatever means necessary to permanently disable them.
I agree in principle that people shouldn’t be killed for robbing a Taco Bell.
But that’s not the whole story here. The bad guys were holding employees at gunpoint. You can’t assume that when a bad guy is pointing at gun at someone they are not going to use it. There’s no button or badge to help identify the ones who have taken the bad guys’ pledge of honor (“cooperate and I won’t shoot”).
It wasn’t just a store being robbed. Lives were in danger.
Yep. You threaten someone with a gun, and I give zero fucks if you’re shot dead. (Even without my hazy memories of the horrific Browns Chicken incident.)
ETA: wow, that was in 93? I thought it was an 80s memory for me.
I’m surprised they were allowed to have guns when on duty.
There’s been too many compliant clerk’s shot at convenience stores.
I’ve seen chilling surveillance footage on my local news. The clerk doing everything the robber asked. I think it’s adrenaline. The idiot has his finger on the trigger and it only takes a nervous twitch. Some family just lost a loved one.
I hope they find the other robber. Accessory to murder will get him off the streets for a long time.
You know he’ll rob another business and endanger more lives very soon.
If somebody is willing to rob a business at gunpoint, I think it’s reasonable to assume he might finish the job by killing all the witnesses. These people were in a life-threatening situation and they were justified in defending themselves.
I get your point but I seem to remember a story about a convenience store employee who chased down someone who robbed the store, and was fired for doing so. The reason given was that if he was injured while chasing the criminal, the company might be expected to pay the medical expenses. It’s cheaper not to chase down the criminals. And there was outrage in the media that the employer fired the employee rather than giving him an award.
Chasing someone who has left the store (chasing down) is not even remotely like the robber pointing a gun at you.
De’Carlo Jackson? I am pretty sure people have seen this one coming based on the name alone. It sucks that he had to die but better him than one or more of the employees or customers. He and his partner were the ones that thought it was a good idea to commit armed robbery in a fast food joint while threatening innocent people’s lives. Sometimes you end up dead when you try that.
He learned his lesson and will bet good money that he won’t be pulling that shit again. He was a career criminal anyway. I doubt he would have stopped there if that armed robbery was successful and it is best just to nip that in the bud before a child gets caught in the crossfire.
Did they do the best thing? Hell if I know. But they certainly did a reasonable and rational thing, and it worked out a lot better than it might have if they hadn’t.
Not very good shots. 3 employees packing and one of the perps got away. Not being intentionally snarky, and I get the heat of the moment, but anyone have a link to how many rounds fired, landed, went wild, etc?
Do you want to elaborate on this?
I read a few accounts and the best I can find is that “several shots” were fired. Jackson was reportedly hit six times.
I too wondered about that.
The unfortunate robber only had an IQ of 75, so gonna be a Macavity…
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Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw -
For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime – Macavity’s not there !*