Prosecutor clears Kroger shooter

[SGB]

Prosecutor clears Kroger shooter | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com

The Marion County prosecutor has officially cleared a Kroger employee who shot and killed an unarmed would-be robber, while also offering more details about what happened inside the grocery store that evening.

[Deserteagle]

Still, Curry cautioned that Elliott's actions are not necessarily to be emulated.

"Mr. Elliott acted as he did, and he's protected by the law from doing that," Curry said, "but we would certainly encourage anyone (to use) significant restraint."

Significant restraint? Is he trying to say that we should retrain our self defense instincts when threatened with physical force such as in this case, being thrown against a wall, being put in a headlock, and believing that your life is in danger?

Maybe he can show us how well self restraint works out when he is being robbed or murdered.

[BattleSwine]

Thank you for posting the article. The press out of Cinci picks and chooses what they want to report on out of Indy. This story they have chosen to ignore, outside of the initial "Shooting at Indy Krogers". That was before details came out. Glad to know it's being viewed as a justified shooting.

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[Resto Guy]

I hope that Kroger also makes the correct decision. But I suspect they will let some time pass and release the employee when it's less likely to draw the attention of the press.

[Tucker's Mom]

We hope not...They should change their policy instead now that they have a nearly-real crime committed at their store.

[CathyInBlue]

We need financial and civil liability insurance reform.

Ban, as unreasonable, all clauses of all insurance contracts making employers responsible vis-a-vis employee uses (or misuses) of firearms on company property, irrespective of company policy, explicit or implicit. Then, there can be no excuse of "It's not that we, here at BigCo, are antigun. You see, it's these evil insurance companies that insist on writing liability insurance policies for our company that demand we ban all guns from the workplace for any reason, and we just can't afford to write that liability out for the additional premiums they would charge us. Maximizing shareholder profit, don'tchaknow?" goes right out the window.

Then, if Kroger doesn't enforce its "company policy" against this guy and another Kroger employee decides that THEY should do that, but do it irresponsibly, and that employee kills a customer criminally, then Kroger can't be held civilly or financially liable, as that liability rests solely with the irresponsible employee alone.