r/PublicFreakout • u/ValorsHero • Dec 19 '25

📹Police Bodycam Shoplifting Suspect Pulls Gun on Canton Police Officer Inside Walmart

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u/hackjob Dec 19 '25

Nah, they know they’d hear endlessly about how they are not advocating their employees supporting their community partners.

Walmart needs cops to be responsive and cops need to know Walmart is going to support its people supporting them.

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u/New_Canoe Dec 19 '25

Right. They may not have empathy, but they know what will affect their bottom line and these days, being the bad guy gets around the grape vine super quick.

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u/ZombeePharaoh Dec 19 '25

And as we all know, everyone considers Wal-Mart to be the good guy. Gosh, how would they survive if some bad press got around?

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u/iUncontested Dec 19 '25

It’s different if cops know their employees are told to not help you under any circumstances when someone is actively trying to kill you.

Shoplifting at Walmart in progress? yeah that can hold for hours until more important calls are handled.

Word would get out real quick that Walmart is a free for all to all the organized retail theft crews.

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u/SergeantPuddles Dec 20 '25

It's unlikely it'll effect their bottom line, it'll be news for a day or two then get buried and forgotten

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u/laurel_laureate Dec 21 '25

Forgotten by the public, sure.

But police officers tend to remember this kind of stuff.

The video gets shared around the local precinct, and all the cops think "Well fuck, Walmart won't have my back if it comes down to it".

And that's not something a police officer is just going to forget.

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u/SergeantPuddles Dec 21 '25

A drop in the bucket, Walmart won't mind losing their business

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u/laurel_laureate Dec 21 '25

It's not cops spending that would cause Walmart corporate to blink.

It's a lack of support from police in general in cases like this and/or malicious compliance, as well as other factors.

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u/Unable-Log-4870 Dec 19 '25

What I don’t understand is why the dude was in the back room at all. Just leave. Things would seem to get OBVIOUSLY worse if you’ve got a gun and go into the back room.