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This might just be crazy talk... but perhaps normal humans should be considered something like "not guilty until proven guilty"? It doesn't make any sense at all to destroy someone's good name and trash their career because they're accused of a thing.
We do it for the rich and powerful. We don't have a certified notarized video of Trump beating and raping little kids, so the massive amount of evidence that says he almost certainly did hasn't caused him to lose what was once seen as the most prestigious job in the world. We don't have a live stream of McConnell's rotting corpse so he's still "alive" for a few more hours until they break the news.
And.... fuck walmart. You're going to set up all those self checkouts instead of paying cashiers then when a customer buying $200 of groceries is found with an item that didn't scan call the fucking cops on them instead of just having them pay for it? For someone who clearly has no history of that happening, the very first time it happens? How is that sane or reasonable?
Since the charges were dropped I hope her next step is suing the shit out of walmart. They falsely accused her of a crime due to their own equipment malfunctioning and caused all of this.
im guessing she can sue for loss wages, maybe career too.
I'd sue the individual security officers who decided to call police for their own store's malfunction. The security officers not only failed at their job but put her life directly in danger over ham. I wouldn't even sue Walmart. I'd go directly after the individuals.
That's true but Walmart still hired them.