As if being a good Samaritan saving innocent life isn’t already rife with risks for good guys, the Target store would like to add another: Getting sued by Target for endangering customers.
It would seem that Target would rather you let a lunatic with a knife hack a teen girl to death than intervene.
But Targets lawyers say that the men following a man acting erratically, wielding a knife shouldn’t have confronted or pursued Mr. Knife Wielder in an effort to keep other innocents safe.
Target SUES hero who fended off knife-wielding attacker stabbing 16-year-old girl at checkout. Chain claims rescue effort put ‘too many lives at risk’
- Michael Turner, 50, faces lawsuit from big box store after helping tackle Leon Walls, 44, during a March 2013 incident in East Liberty, Pennsylvania
- Store says that Turner and two other men brought ‘risk of harm to others’ when they pursued Walls inside store following an earlier stabbing
- Family of victim Allison Meadows is suing Target for weak security and says that store is trying to find someone else to blame
- Walls found guilty of attempted homicide and awaits sentencing
If this doesn’t make you want to rush right out and risk your life shopping at Target, I’m not sure what would…
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