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• Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i think you misunderstand the purpose of police

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• white_nrdy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m guessing that the L&P staff are acting as legal proxies, and therefore can press charges

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  • asqapro@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m not a lawyer, and maybe this is just a US-centric understanding, but someone “pressing charges” doesn’t force the police to arrest the accused person, let alone actually charge them with a criminal offense. Pressing charges, at least to my understanding, is notifying police of a crime, pointing out the offender, and tacitly agreeing to cooperate if the police need more information.

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    • white_nrdy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You might be right. I am also not a lawyer, and I’m also in the US. I assumed that they would arrest since Walmart is technically provate property, L&P might have had her legally removed for trespassing? I don’t know, who knows. It might also just be that the police were just listening to the orders of their corporate overlords 🤷

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