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The charge was not shoplifting and that headline is preposterous. When will people get the difference between theft and robbery through their heads? One is a p
by nsxwolf 13y ago
The charge was not shoplifting and that headline is preposterous.
When will people get the difference between theft and robbery through their heads? One is a property crime. The other is a violent crime.
But sure, just go ahead and say you'll get 50 years for shoplifting. You get more clicks and you can be seen as indignant and virtuous.
EDIT: Ok, so I'm wrong about Ward actually threatening the clerk. But he was a multiple felon, and the jury apparently believed the testimony that he had a knife (which would have been illegal for a multiple felon to carry).
My comments in general still apply to many, many stories that are presented the way I originally described.
- alexqgb 13y agoUh, you didn't actually read the article, did you? If you did, you'd understand that yes, it was shoplifting. He was apprehended after the fact, at which point the shoplifting was discovered. When asked if he had anything else, he replied that he had a knife, but didn't actually show it. In other words, there was no violence committed or even threatened in the course of the crime. There was no violence committed or credibly threatened after the fact. There was simply a statement, which could easily be seen as a confession, that he had a knife in his possession.