A brave man stopped a man who was attempted to rob the convenience store that he was working at back in April.
Now the hero’s quick thinking and bravery has cost him his job.
According to KOIN,
A would-be robber of a convenience store brought a hatchet as a weapon. He ran when the clerk pulled out a gun.
The April 28 incident at the Oak Grove Plaid Pantry was captured on surveillance video and just released by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
The video shows a man walk into the Plaid Pantry around 1 a.m., walk up to the counter and pull a 12-inch hatchet from his pants. He shows it to the clerk, who then pulls out a gun.
As the clerk picked up the phone to call 911, the robber slid the hatchet across the counter, put his hands up and reportedly said, “I’m sorry. I’ll leave.” He then ran out of the store.
Seems like a great story so far right? The man exercises his right to bear arms and defends himself and the store.
But that’s not where this story ends.
Fox News reports,
However, the clerk’s quick thinking cost him his job, with the president of Plaid Pantry in Oak Grove explaining to local station KOIN-TV that the chain has a zero-tolerance policy for weapons.
He said employees are trained to de-escalate robbery situations to avoid injury, according to the station.
The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office on Friday released surveillance video of the incident which took place April 28 at the store, seeking tips in identifying the suspect who fled empty-handed and without the 12-inch hatchet.
“We’d like to reunite you with the hatchet you left behind after the clerk responded with a handgun and a 911 call and you fled the scene,” Sgt. Marcus Mendoza said in a news release.
Mendoza said the suspect placed the hatchet on the counter and reportedly telling the clerk, “I’m sorry. I’ll leave.”
This place is going to be out of business very soon, I can just smell it. You don’t fire a man who saves the day. There won’t be a next time, but it there was, that guy would just let them take whatever they wanted. You can’t treat your brave employees like that that get away with it.
You can bet that the community is going to be boycotting that store for sure.
You really can’t fix stupid and the owner of this store just proved it again. I’d rather go where the employees and customers carry than a liberal gun free kill zone. After all 99% of all mass murders are in those gun free kill zone.
Figures, commie-liberal Oregon…
Any bets that all a victim (one of his employees) would get nothing from this employer should they follow his instructions – and STILL gets murdered?
Policy of most stores is to give they robber what they want, even if they show a weapon. Management thinks that all the robber/criminal wants is money/property. But, THAT is NOT always he case, nor should we expect that to be the case. An armed robber may shoot anyone, just out of spite or even kill them because clerks are now witnesses. The company “teaches deescalation”…….well that is all well and good until the perp becomes agitated or impatient and decides to pop one into you. These people cannot be 2nd guessed nor assumed/stereotyped to a certain behavior.
To add to your point, many thieves, especially minorities robbing whites or Asians, do so with not only an attitude of entitlement for supposed wrongs, but also with aggressive “retribution” in mind.
My answer to that is to first make it a capital crime for a thief to shoot a victim, and secondly make the STATE or employer responsible for all medical, legal, recovery, and lost wages costs if passive responses are required in the face of aggression.
What if the church had “fired” the quick on his toes gun-toter who saved so many lives by shooting the gunman ? Time to wise up, America. Your old ideas do not work anymore and put people in a heckuva lot more danger. Maybe the convenience store just loves wrongful death lawsuits– a whole lot of them ! Time to send the right message to the crooks– we are here WITH our guns and we ARE READY for your sorry selfish poor excuse for a human being selves.
WE ARE READY!
Fortunately, the church staff had approved of the armed guards.
The solution is to make the owners of any business that establishes itself as a “gun-free zone” to be totally and personally responsible for the safety of its patrons and employees and to be liable for damages as a result of its “gun-free zone” policies.
Ridiculous. People who run convenience stores, liquor stores, banks, etc… should all be packing heat. Can and usually will save lives. When an a-hole comes in and pulls a weapon.. especially a gun, you have to always expect the worst. Being totally unarmed is ludicrous and dangerous. Store owner is a moron. And should be boycotted.
the store must be owned by another leftist loser.
God says in the end times…Right shall become wrong, and wrong shall become right. Very obvious in today’s world!
I think the store employee did a fine job of de-escalating the situation. The “hatchet man” laid down his weapon and ran away. GOOD JOB!!!
That’s the looney libs of Portland. They now pay 26 mill for a 5 yr contract to clean up the crap after the bums spead out all over Portland.
Check it out here:
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This was in Washington state. The second most stupid liberal state in the union right behind my home state of California. That clerk should have been given a raise and a promotion to the corporate office to replace the mindless/liberal president of that useless company.
I believe Oak Grove, Clackamas County is in the State of Oregon. But your comment about Washington State is not far off.
Was the store posted as a Free fire, I mean gun free zone? The robber meat that obligation.
I wish the author was right, but seeing as how this happened in PROGRESSIVE Oregon I believe fellow liberals there will say the thief was the person who was wronged and the firing was right.
I wish the author was right, but seeing as how this happened in PROGRESSIVE Oregon the true liberal believers there will FEEL that it was the poor maligned thief who was wronged and that the firing, if not worse, was right.
Store should be called “Plain Pansy”.
That is a store to avoid. Hopefully, the clerk will a new job quickly.
Does Obama own that store chain??
Obviously, the criminal did not know the company policy on carrying weapon into their store. Maybe he planned on cutting up tomatoes or potatoes with his hatchet. Obviously the clerk was a racist because he caused this patron to apologize and run out of the store. Liberalism is insanity and there is no cure for it.
So the man should have unloaded a long John up to his face and boldly told him to vacate the premises
He (the fired employee) should tell everybody that the store has water in their gas …
Why does the Left Coast not wake up and stop their disastrous Liberal Stupidity?
“Liberalism is a mental disorder” (Michael Savage has been saying this for decades . . . and he is Spot On!)
The president of the store said “employees are trained to de-escalate robbery situations to avoid injury, according to the station.”
I believe the former employee de-escalated the situation just fine. Not only did he get an assault hatchet off the streets, he also got an apology from the thief.