Academy Sports manager fired after tackling gun theft suspect

Jester896 · Jul 13, 2018

The first question I would have asked him as his leader...Would you have chased and tackled him if he was running with a shirt? Answer would have probably been, "No." He could work for me

305RSlc · Jul 13, 2018

Uh....question for you guys outraged here....

Did anyone not notice the second article posted about how they let the thief and going-to-be murderer go? As in, he's out of jail. As in...he's free to do exactly what he said he was going to do...steal again and go shoot someone?

"As for Mr. White, well, he was released from jail after making bond on July 6 as part of a “supervised mental health pre-trial release.” This despite the fact that White told an officer that “I will steal again when I get out of jail,” and he would shoot someone and that police would see him on the evening news. “Just you wait and see,” said White, according to the police report.

White has been ordered to stay away from Academy Sports and the pawn shop. Time will tell if he actually obeys the court order."

Has anyone contacted the local DA, sheriff, or judge handling this case? If the outrage should be anywhere, it should be on letting a clearly mentally ill person intent on breaking the law and causing bodily harm roam free on the streets. Just a couple pennies worth of a thought.

5532JWK · Jul 13, 2018

Since Academy Sports employees can't touch customers, I guess if someone needed CPR in their store, they could not perform it for fear of losing their job for touching a customer.

Fishinspot · Jul 14, 2018

So basically this is telling all bad guys they can now officially walk into an academy store get a gun and casually walk out and NO ONE will stop then. This is setting a precedence that is now more publicly know that the bad guys can very freely steal guns from academy with no resistance whatsoever. Good job academy.

5532JWK · Jul 14, 2018

Yep and it is up to us as customers to make a point of not spending a dime in their stores.

IronBeard · Jul 14, 2018

Wow, so Academy is right there with Dick's and Walmart. They are openly anti-gun and the parking lots are still full. With all the pro-gun people we have around here, you would think they'd be begging for business.

John B. · Jul 14, 2018

I'm pretty pumped that it won't be as crowded next time I go there... thanks guys!

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polebarn · Jul 14, 2018

The manager has been reinstated.

Jester896 · Jul 14, 2018

good to know there is still some right in the world
would be really neat if they paid him for the time lost...if not I'm not sure I would go back.

FNHman · Jul 14, 2018

He should still sue, thats just terrible to think that in a life or death situation your employers first action is to fire you. If anybody thinks that the gun would not have killed sooner or later, you are part of the problem. That store manager is a hero and his actions clearly saved lives. Well done I say!

I'm banning Academy sales in my family for one year for their actions. Email sent

IronBeard · Jul 15, 2018

John B. said:
I'm pretty pumped that it won't be as crowded next time I go there... thanks guys!

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My guess is the lot will still be full. May the prices be low and your wait short :tea:

Telum Pisces · Jul 15, 2018

FNHman said:
If anybody thinks that the gun would not have killed sooner or later, you are part of the problem.

I don't think the gun would have ever killed anyone!!!!! Now the person behind it is another story! Tell me again how the gun was going to do anything without a human. A gun is just like any other tool out there.

If you think a gun is different from any other tool out there that needs a special category and we need to do something different because it's a "gun", then you are part of the problem. :smile:

I for one think every thief, no matter what they are trying to run out of a store with, should be tackled and beaten! I hate a thief!

stage20 · Jul 15, 2018

the academy name is out there, but the real people to blame are the idiots that make these types of firing legal, and also the insurance companies that put force on the stores to do it. there is more than we know, and im sure it all envolves insurance companies and policies that academy probably cant control. maybe i dont know what im talking about. but this has happened more times than i can count over the course of my life with convenient store robberies and altercations where the store clerk was fired. its company policy because insurance forces it to be.

FNHman · Jul 15, 2018

Telum Pisces said:
Tell me again how the gun was going to do anything without a human.

Yes, but the media has me convinced that the guns are evil! :rofl:

Thanks for catching my slip. I should have said that gun would sooner or later been used to commit crime against honest hard working Americans.

Garpo · Jul 15, 2018

FNHman said:
Yes, but the media has me convinced that the guns are evil! :rofl:

And they could be right, someday but a watchful eye is being kept on the potential evil doer.

https://2ndvote.com/the-miracle-con...-shows-gun-still-innocent-of-shooting-anyone/

wildrider666 · Jul 16, 2018

Academy's Head calls gun thief tackling Asst Mgr and offers him his job back, He accepts. Seems Academy couldn't handle the heat that they generated from firing a Good Guy who did the right thing.

https://www.guns.com/2018/07/16/academy-rehires-fired-hero-manager-who-stopped-gun-theft-video/

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