Lack of professionalism.. Opinions....

[Norton 750]

Wow. Obviously the attorneys that advertise on the TV late at night don't read the S&W Forum. Young girl assaulted with a witness, perhaps cameras. Bullied by a manager in a position of authority to drop it. Good ol' boy Police network. Crying victim for the Jury. This sounds like the kind of dream lawsuit that would bring Johnny Cochran out of his grave. And no, my solution to life is not to sue people. But I have a pretty good eye for what plays to a Jury, and it seems like this checks a lot of the boxes for a huge settlement.

 

[fatcat3]

sounds like the manager needs some physical counseling from dad, hubby or a boyfriend.

 

[65-2x2]

The caveman side of me, the uncivilized part, coming from my reptilian brain, thinks that someone needs to teach the store manager and the perp the same lesson, issued in a language that is universally understood. Batter up! Perhaps, going forward they would take Aretha's advice, "You better think, think about what you're trying to do to to me."

 

[326MOD10]

A lot of badges in this forum...so here's my question to you: since when did arresting someone for assault become optional? In a domestic situation, when one family member assaults another do you walk away if the victim says they do not want to prosecute? Why would this be any different?

Because State laws mandates an arrest in domestic situations if there is probable cause.

There was a time it wasn't that way.

Lot of moving parts to this story so without first hand knowledge who knows what happened.

 

[16thVACav]

The young lady should file a comp claim immediately and then a civil suit against the manager and the store as well as her assailant. She should pursue the criminal complaint, via the DA if the cops are being stupid. She should nail comp for every minute of time off for counseling, medical treatment, anything even remotely related to the assault. She should also file a complaint against the non-responding officer with the PD.

In SC, workers' compensation claims for mental/emotional injury are not compensable unless they stem directly from a compensable physical injury. In other words, the lady who was assaulted would need some form of physical injury to successfully file for mental injury. As I understand it, assault covers a pretty wide range of behavior and does not always result in a physical injury.

That manager will be looking for a new job if corporate finds out about this incident.

 

[biku324]

So; shame on the responding officers for accepting a third-party's recommendation. Crime is between the victim and the perpetrator. The police should have separated the manager from the victim (it's easy to do and the manager really cannot refuse without legal risk) to learn what she wanted to do.

 

[rwsmith]

The manager's position is totally irrelevant. If I was the investigating officer, I would have had the manager removed from the scenario.

Yes, that is what SHOULD have happened and it's expected that it would work that way, but it was very poorly handled.

 

[Autonomous]

We need an update. Has she pressed charges or is this just anger porn?

 

[Buford57]

A lot of badges in this forum...so here's my question to you: since when did arresting someone for assault become optional? In a domestic situation, when one family member assaults another do you walk away if the victim says they do not want to prosecute? Why would this be any different?

Most states have separate domestic violence statutes that permit or even mandate an arrest in domestic situations and those situations only. This started about 40 years ago. Before that time yes, we had to walk away if the victim said they didn't want to prosecute, which they usually did about the time "lover boy" got cuffed. Sometimes multiple times per night or until somebody got maimed or dead. Unless the standard for a misdemeanor assault/battery offense has changed recently, the officers had no recourse if the victim was persuaded not to make a complaint. See my Post #37.

 

[BloodyThumb]

I smell BS. I cannot be 100% sure where it is coming from so I will refrain from calling it.. but I DEFINITELY smell BS.

 

[cowboy94916]

The more I think about this I wonder about the customer who called in and claimed assaut had occured really observed.
A number of years ago a Deputy friend of mine was called to the local Mcdonalds a woman reporting child abuse. Well when they got there all the witness said the child had been totally out of control and refused to obey his mother. Well the womn who called, had been in the bathroom, when the mother, who had removed the child from the lobby, came in and gve him a wack on the ass and he calmed down. Well the woman demanded the arrest the mother so they had to inspect the child nd finding a red mark on his behind had to arrest the mother. The DA who got all the facts latter dismissed the charges. Not sure how you see it but when i grew up an attitude adjustment was gotten when well deseerved. Now days some busy body can get your asss thrown in jail for that same attitude adjustment. I sure can't see any local law officers I hang around with, letting manager decide unless there were extenuating circumstances.

 

[Puller]

A lot of badges in this forum...so here's my question to you: since when did arresting someone for assault become optional?

When the story doesn't add up and there's not enough probable cause. Just saying.

 

[Deke Thornton]

I imagine the manager pressured the employee not to press charges, for whatever screwed up reason. I would hope the responding officers informed the employee that it wasn't up to her manager if she pressed charges against her attacker or not, and even when she stated she didn't, they should have slipped her a business card and told her to call them if she changed her mind later. Even with an eyeball witness, there's not much the cops can do if the victim won't press charges. Seen that rodeo before.

 

[SWOH]

What customer wants to shop where violent weirdos run loose? Manager has his head far up his rectum from so many different angles.

 

[SWOH]

The more I think about this I wonder about the customer who called in and claimed assaut had occured really observed.
A number of years ago a Deputy friend of mine was called to the local Mcdonalds a woman reporting child abuse. Well when they got there all the witness said the child had been totally out of control and refused to obey his mother. Well the womn who called, had been in the bathroom, when the mother, who had removed the child from the lobby, came in and gve him a wack on the ass and he calmed down. Well the woman demanded the arrest the mother so they had to inspect the child nd finding a red mark on his behind had to arrest the mother. The DA who got all the facts latter dismissed the charges. Not sure how you see it but when i grew up an attitude adjustment was gotten when well deseerved. Now days some busy body can get your asss thrown in jail for that same attitude adjustment. I sure can't see any local law officers I hang around with, letting manager decide unless there were extenuating circumstances.

Well, a parent, exercising parental authority regarding discipline is going to be different in the eyes of the law than a stranger using force against a store employee. While any situation can be sensationalized and misreported, there is no presumption that a stranger can exercise force in any situation except self-defense excusably.

 

[rwsmith]

Many are comparing this to a domestic assault case. I'm sure there are differences between domestic assault and assault in a public place on someone not related to them.

 

[rwsmith]

To those that say the story is BS or missing 'something', all I can say is that my wife's niece was there, she's living with us and is a very sensible 35 yo woman. She called us to tell us what was going on. I'd like to know more myself, but the way it went down, unless something is compelled to come out, we aren't likely to hear more and I'm not going to speculate or elaborate. That's why I just presented the basic facts as I know them. Perhaps the police made a report, but I don't know that. Also, I don't know how the victim feels about the story getting out and I don't know everything so I'm not inclined to dig or try to call official attention to it, even though I would VERY MUCH like to do so. I am angry about it, but it's only as someone naturally concerned about the state of our society. It has nothing to do with my wife's niece except that she, nor anyone else really needs to be working there.