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Walgreens execs to pharmacist who fired back at thugs: Your’re fired

By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  September 8th, 2011 at 11:50 PM  | 

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The American Thinker Blog has a piece today about a Walgreens pharmacist in Benton Harbor, Michigan, who was fired recently for using a personal handgun to chase off a pair of thugs attempting to rob the store.

The blog piece is here http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/walgreens_pharmacist_fired_for_using_gun_to_foil_robbery.html

In the links included are absolutely terrifying videos of the robbery from the store’s surveillance system.

Apparently, Walgreens execs think employees should fully comply with demands of anyone robbing their stores.

Perhaps someone should send Walgreens the following, from www.nypost.com today.

The gunman accused of killing four people at a Long Island pharmacy this past June pleaded guilty today to five counts of first degree murder — with his lawyer saying the shooter wanted to spare the families from reliving the ordeal during a long trial.

David Laffer, 33, who showed up in a Riverhead courtroom wearing a green prison jumpsuit, nodded when asked by a judge if he wanted to plead guilty to charges — one for each of the four victims and a fifth because there were multiple murders.

“Yes, your honor,” Laffer said, as more than two dozen family members of the four victims looked on.

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Laffer shot and killed Raymond Ferguson, 45, employee Jennifer Mejia, 17; and customers Jaime Taccetta, 33, and Bryon Sheffield, 71, during the June 19 massacre at Haven Drugs in Medford.

Laffer allegedly swiped 10,000 pills — mostly the painkiller hydrocodone — to satisfy her addiction. Cops later found 2,000 pills in the couple’s home.

Other evidence against Laffer included surveillance video of him donning a wig and sunglasses inside the store, fingerprints that he left at the pharmacy and the murder weapon recovered at his home.

 

 

http://www.wzzm13.com/video/1148135991001/0/Walgreens-pharmacist-fired-for-using-gun

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  • streiff

    they have the same policy as Southland (7-11) and it is based on the simple idea that not all their employees are armed and one employee using a gun gives the entire chain the reputation for being armed. This increases the danger to other employees.

    If Walgreens wants to suck up the loss, that it their right. If you are a Walgreens employee and want to pack heat you shouldn’t be surprised when you get fired.

  • steve010

    since 9/11? Same number as the number of jobs created last month by President zero.

    The reason those planes were hijacked with box cutters was due to the airlines’ rule that pilots and employees and the passengers should do whatever the hijacker wanted. We used to have planes hijacked all the time. Now any hijacker knows that as soon as he/she stands up to yell jihad that he’ll be tackled and beaten to a pulp by every single passenger including the grandmothers.

  • Jack_Savage

    Now that the policy of not resisting has become common knowledge among criminals, we will see, very soon, if the employees of Walgreens and those that shop there are more or less safe.

  • streiff

    the reason the plane was hijacked was because of hijackers. But, even conceding you point on that subject, are you 1) contending that someone was going to fly a Walgreens into a target and 2) that employers do not have the right to set standards of behavior?

    Because the employee was not fired for possessing a firearm but for resisting a robbery.

  • funwithknives

    policy or not, the druggist had rights and an expectation of safety. To just *bend over and take it*, is not a policy, just an expedient. Here in Michigan, and many other places, how many times do we hear of criminals “lighting up” victims even after they get what they want?? Stand-your-ground laws are in effect for a reason.
    The druggist is alive, probably because he stood up and did something positive. Doubtless,any customer there sympathizes with this position. Especially, if they are still breathing and unharmed.
    Does Walgreen’s policy reduce these occurances? Fat {friggen} chance. How about the druggist’s “policy”? WatSayYou?
    (“If it saves just one life,it’s worth it”. Was that an echo I just heard?)

  • http://redmerrimack.blogspot.com/ charliebravoNH

    Your life comes before your job unless you are in the Secret Service or the US Military.