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Nice try, being all confident in your answer and all. But wrong (ok, potentially partially correct in some locations but not universally correct). Laws vary in different parts of the country (and Canada) but here in FL they would be legally authorized to detain, and use physical force, to stop a theft. Regardless of in or out of the doors of the store. And no duty to retreat. Corporate policy is of little or no concern legally (just of concern for employment status)

You do realize this is a state by state related issue? Because it sure doesn't look like it with you falsely putting this under some generic US law. In PA for example, it is codified into our state law that a merchant has the right to apprehend and detain a thief. The merchant and their employees are immune from prosecution in acts like this.

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God that video is entertaining!

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You know what is the biggest bullshit of this story? Is that if the two guys were cops they would be getting pay raises...

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Honestly depending on the type of retail location and the location you will see different thefts.
In the grocery stores in more of a semi suburban out of the main drags we got TONS more razor blade, and OTC med thefts.  Some of these dudes were slick and fast clearing out whole sections of them in seconds.  Less chances for them to get identified. One store was an hour and a half out of the main drag and was loosing 60k a week in OTC meds, we caught that dude with 6k in cold meds and the entire razor blade refill section in his shirt and pants.    

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As much as I sympathize with the LP guys needing to defend themselves from a knife attack, here are some FACTS some posters are not correlating correctly:

1.  Several persons have posted that WalMart has a CORPORATE policy of not following shoplifters outside the store entrance.  I assume this corporate policy applies in Canada as well as the US.
2.  Assuming the policy applies in Canada, once the LP guys crossed the threshold of the store entrance and followed the thief outside the store, they lost ALL immunity of acting as agents of WalMart.  In other words, at this point, they are plain citizens, NOT Wal-Mart employees, as far as Wal-Mart is concerned.
3.  Now the legal discussion becomes one of "is the physical force justified to defend oneself from a knife attack?
4.  In US law, the court would find that the two now ex-LP guys failed to AVOID the knife attack.  In other words, they took actions to PROVOKE the knife attack, and thus are the guilty party in terms of causing the physical confrontation.
5.  Since they became the defacto instigators in this violent confrontation, they might face criminal charges under US law, if this incident had happened here.

Remember, in violent confrontations, the "reasonable man" theory will be applied to any jury trial.  Would a reasonable man continue to engage a man with a knife if he had the opportunity to walk away from the knife-holder and thus escape injury?

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Interesting.   Like a goatfuck.

Loss Prevention better get their shit straight before they try that retard rodeo with someone that has a gun.    Two plainclothes fucks try and touch me and they're getting shot, regardless of whatever they're saying.

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       Curious , the amount of support the alleged thief is getting.

Also curious is the level of contempt and outright anger towards the loss prevention guys...

Do we have some wealth redistributionists posting?

One poster is gonna shoot anyone that touches him.






Have some here been... touched by mean LP workers?