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WTR wrote:

Javier730 wrote:

WTR wrote:Personally, I don't think any off us has enough information to comment on this case. The "hero" may be nothing more than a bully in this case. I haven't read what the original confrontation was about. By what authority does are supposed hero have the right to chase and hold someone while threatening with a ball bat( I would have shot him). The homeless man was found guilty but also mentally ill. After have been around mentally ill folks, they do not all have our rational or inhabit our same world. I do not know what time of day this occurred but if during the day, why wasn't our hero working. Does he live off the system and have nothing better to do than ride around looking for trouble with his cohorts? There are many versions which could have taken place which we have no knowledge of.

Your right we don't know the whole story. What we do know is that for some reason a mentally unstable person decided to stab a girl multiple times and someone was there to stop it.

And quite possible the one who stopped it also instigated it.

WTR wrote:Personally, I don't think any off us has enough information to comment on this case. The "hero" may be nothing more than a bully in this case. I haven't read what the original confrontation was about. By what authority does are supposed hero have the right to chase and hold someone while threatening with a ball bat( I would have shot him). The homeless man was found guilty but also mentally ill. After have been around mentally ill folks, they do not all have our rational or inhabit our same world. I do not know what time of day this occurred but if during the day, why wasn't our hero working. Does he live off the system and have nothing better to do than ride around looking for trouble with his cohorts? There are many versions which could have taken place which we have no knowledge of.

C-dub wrote:The thing appears to be that it wouldn't have happened at all if the "hero" weren't there. It seems that he stopped something that he caused.

C-dub wrote:

Mike S wrote:As Paul Harvey woulda said, here's the part of the story left out by The Federalist article.

This "hero" & a couple of his friends had an altercation with a homeless, mentally ill guy and then jumped in their car to try & find him. The "hero" ran into the Target store WITH a baseball bat, ran up the escalator to find the guy, and had more 'words' with the mental homeless guy. Homeless guy grabs teenage girl & pulls out a knife to show 'he means business' (... remember, he's a mental homeless guy; this must have made sense to him on some alternative wavelength...), to wit our "hero" springs into action & tackles/chases homeless nut out of the store with the baseball bat that he brought with him.

If Target wants to sue him & his homeboys for bringing street justice into their stores, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/07/ ... g-lawsuit/

If I'm following this correctly, I'm curious to what street justice you're referring to? It sounds to me like the "hero" caused the mentally ill person to irrationally attack the girl and that wouldn't have happened if the "hero" hadn't come after him first.