Walgreens Fires Armed Worker.

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This thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=414440&mesg_id=414440 links to an article about an armed worker at Walgreen's that used his gun against the robbers when everybody was being herded to a back room. When the criminal starts to move the victim to a second crime scene that is NEVER good new for the victim. Being herded to a back room is often a prelude to murder.

Walgreen's has since fired that worker.

http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2011/05/18/local_news/4820927.txt

Walgreens fires armed worker

BENTON TOWNSHIP - A photograph of four children tucked in a thank-you card from a coworker reminds Jeremy Hoven he did the right thing.

But doing "the right thing" cost the night shift pharmacist his job at the Walgreens drugstore at Napier Avenue and M-139. The national pharmacy chain fired Hoven on Monday, eight days after he fired his handgun to foil an armed robbery and a potentially deadly hostage situation at the store.

"In my mind, I can look at myself in the mirror. I can lay my head down in bed and sleep. In my mind, I did what I had to do," said the 36-year-old Twin Cities-area resident.

The two masked gunmen fled after Hoven fired three or four shots from his revolver during the 4:30 a.m. incident May 8, a Sunday.

(MUCH MORE AT LINK)

Walgreens should be boycotted until they rehire them.