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Well, I look at it like this. I've been the guy someone has called the police on because someone was "scared" of me. Something like this story actually happened to me. Except I left the building and the police were called while I was somewhere else.
That whole "better to be wrong and alive than PC and dead", well, I watched the newscast. How do they look or sound threatening? Better yet, there is something I have to be afraid of. Someone might use that and think "he's a threat, shoot him". I actually do think about things that that happening.
Circumstances could very easily have had the employees fearing there might be a robbery attempt, and history may have made them extra jumpy.
Two guys come into a convenience store, ask for sliced cheese, and then hang around for 30-45 minutes after being told they didn't carry any.
Lol. It seems obvious to me that the guys were visibly high. Which is probably why the employee got spooked that he might be about to get robbed, and went and hid and called the cops.
Meanwhile high guys are like "dude! Where's the employees?" "dude! I dunno!" "dude! What if they've been abducted by aliens! We should look for them!" "dude! like totally!"
Circumstances could very easily have had the employees fearing there might be a robbery attempt, and history may have made them extra jumpy.
Everything is speculation at this point.
Circumstances might have played a role in certain issues with me. However, I do not go doing things like calling the police on someone for simply being there.
Two guys come into a convenience store, ask for sliced cheese, and then hang around for 30-45 minutes after being told they didn't carry any.
Lol. It seems obvious to me that the guys were visibly high. Which is probably why the employee got spooked that he might be about to get robbed, and went and hid and called the cops.
Meanwhile high guys are like "dude! Where's the employees?" "dude! I dunno!" "dude! What if they've been abducted by aliens! We should look for them!" "dude! like totally!"
I've hung around stores for 30-45 minutes. So far, no evidence of a crime taking place has been shown.
I've hung around stores for 30-45 minutes. So far, no evidence of a crime taking place has been shown.
Yeah, CVS already apologized so the people with way more first hand information as well as the cops found no issues with the 2 guys.
At this point, you have some min wage workers that screwed up and fortunately no one was harmed.
Makes me think about the guy that called cops about the guy in Walmart saying he was pointing a gun at people (police killed the guy). That caller should have been arrested for making a 9-11 call like that.
Circumstances might have played a role in certain issues with me. However, I do not go doing things like calling the police on someone for simply being there.
Well, I look at it like this. I've been the guy someone has called the police on because someone was "scared" of me. Something like this story actually happened to me. Except I left the building and the police were called while I was somewhere else.
That whole "better to be wrong and alive than PC and dead", well, I watched the newscast. How do they look or sound threatening? Better yet, there is something I have to be afraid of. Someone might use that and think "he's a threat, shoot him". I actually do think about things that that happening.
This specific incident referenced in the original post did not happen to you nor is this thread about you, green mariner.
You have no special insight into what transpired at CVS just because you happen to be black or saw a few minute video on a newscast. You weren't there.
The employees were scared of these two men, so they had a reason. Was the employees' fear due to the men's race or for other reasons? Few facts are provided in the article and no facts from the employees' point of view of the incident.
The OP sure is jumping to conclusions.
By the way, I'd rather be wrong and alive than dead and PC.
Yeah, CVS already apologized so the people with way more first hand information as well as the cops found no issues with the 2 guys.
At this point, you have some min wage workers that screwed up and fortunately no one was harmed.
Makes me think about the guy that called cops about the guy in Walmart saying he was pointing a gun at people (police killed the guy). That caller should have been arrested for making a 9-11 call like that.
when the threshold for PTSD is chalk marks on a sidewalk, safey pins handed out for safe refuge and safe palces established, why be surprised when employees see something and say something?
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That caller should have been arrested for making a 9-11 call like that.
This specific incident referenced in the original post did not happen to you nor is this thread about you, green mariner. 
