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    Target and their walk of shame

    Target Employee Suicide: Mom Sues Retailer For Son’s Suicide After ‘Walk Of Shame’
    http://www.inquisitr.com/1789844/target-employee-suicide-mom-sues-retailer-for-sons-suicide-after-walk-of-shame/
    A distraught mother is suing Target for her son’s suicide. The employee was allegedly paraded around the store in what is being called a “walk of shame,” according to the lawsuit. Virginia Gentles is going after the big box retailer after her 22-year-old son and former Target employee Graham jumped to his death from the […]


    Thoughts??? I didn't know Target did a "walk of shame". I know I wouldn't like being falsely accused of theft and being paraded around in handcuffs. I also know though if I had committed the thefts I still wouldn't want to be paraded around in handcuffs.
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    #2
    Re: Target and their walk of shame

    Those Target peeps are gonna get fiiiired.


    But. If stealing makes you commit suicide..you might have other problems.
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      #3
      Re: Target and their walk of shame

      Insufficient detail. Why are target managers directing police (as opposed to private security staff) on the handling of a suspect?

      Don't really have anything useful to say till I see more detail.
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        #4
        Re: Target and their walk of shame

        All the information I can find right now says the same exact thing. That Target said they don't have a "walk of shame" and they released a statement saying "Our thoughts and sympathies go out to the friends and family of this individual. At this pending litigation we don't have further comment at this time." They also all say that Gentle's had Aspergers. I'm curious to see what happens because your right MO if they suspected him of theft why wouldn't they use their LP officers to handle this? What was the point of the police?
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          #5
          Re: Target and their walk of shame

          My issue was more, "Why are police going along with this? They don't get anything except an opportunity to have their methods challenged publically and in a court room."
          life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

          Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

          "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

          John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

          "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

          Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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            #6
            Re: Target and their walk of shame

            If that employee ended up being not guilty of shoplifting, he might not be able to work there again, but he could sue the hell out of them for the personal stress and embarrassment. If, indeed, this actually happened, because the info is very patchy. He might have been taken out through the store and perceived it as a walk of shame.
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              #7
              Re: Target and their walk of shame

              I wish there was more information... Did they have a video of the kid stealing? Or were they just going off word of mouth?

              Either way, that poor kid...

              Also, in places I've worked before, usually the police just escort the person to the cash register and require them to pay for the item (as long as it isn't anything too expensive) and issue a warning for the first offense. I've never actually seen anyone one handcuffed in those type of situations.

              Though the LP guy at my old store was scary; I'd seen him frog march customers to the back room before. But usually after the police got there, the customer (or employee) was treated better, not worse.

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