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chasfm11 wrote:

nakedbike wrote: At that moment is when deadly force may have been justified. Preventing me from fleeing from multi actors would put the fear for my life in me. Would that be when it turned into aggravated assault/robbery?

I would worry about the clerks actions of trying to close up the store being interpreted in a court setting as provocation. I can just here an attorney describe about how one of the shoplifters was in fear of their life when the doors were pulled closed.

It would be a different matter if the gang had simply grabbed the clerk without any action that could be considered provocation.

Beiruty wrote:Technically, the flash mob are engaged in mass multi-actors shoplifting and stealing property, not robbery, like "hands up, this is a stick-up, give me your money, cell phone, etc or I will shoot you..." A better term is looting. Any laws that that justify deadly force against "looting" in daylight?

"In the process of them walking out, tried to stop a student with a lot of things in his hands and when I tried to do that, he shoved me out into the parking lot and swung at me," Thomas said.
Thomas then says several men then pulled him to the ground and started kicking and punching him.