A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he is hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Yeah. You’re right.

    The daughter totally escalated the situation by bringing a baseball bat and threatening the clerk. No wonder they called the police.

    And the old man, according to affidavits, was simply taken into the back of a police car without any violence to himself. Then he complained of chest pains while in the car so they called an ambulance. He was alert when the ambulance arrived.

    The man had a heart condition that was aggravated due to his daughter escalating the situation and getting the police involved. And now he’s in the hospital because of her behaviour.

    However this could’ve all not happened had the store employee not been a dick. So this is really all that person’s fault.

    • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      I don’t agree with that logic.

      You are stripping away everyone’s free will except the employee.

      At any point during this, anyone could have made different decisions and just stopped this whole thing