A gunman who killed a woman before being fatally shot by a security guard at Citibank’s sprawling office complex in Tampa targeted the campus because he was angry over a $2,500 debt collection, a sheriff said Thursday.
About three hours before Wednesday’s shooting, Jacob Pearson called an attorney affiliated with Citibank and threatened violence, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister told a news conference.
On the phone, Pearson demanded that the lawyer cancel a court hearing over Pearson’s unpaid credit card debt “unless you want me to go over there with my AR-15, my bulletproof vest and my insanity,” Chronister said.
$2,500 ain’t even a calculable fraction of a fraction of a percent for Citibank, but it’s more than everything for a lot of ordinary folks. Push people too far and they’ll snap.
I say we let him and the Citibank executives figure it out in a closed door meeting. He can keep the gun for negotiation purposes.
“An executive who is part of Citibank’s armed security team shot the gunman five times before he could hurt anyone else. Pearson was pronounced dead at a hospital.”
Whelp, we know how that goes. An innocent woman dies, and Pearson couldn’t hurt anyone else, fortunately.
Dude, a woman died
I think you’ll find that people become apathetic to regular murder when they realize that the society they live in is apathetic to social murder. I try to resist the apathy, but I really get it.
When the people are beaten down they do tend to stop caring when the servants of those doing the beating are hurt.
It’s just the natural social pressure pushing back on people who willing join those that society sees as harmful.
We have a odd dissonance to forgive those who allow the abusers to abuse. Just because of a degree of separation and the fact for most of us we have to give up that moral line to make a living and survive.
We don’t want to blame our selfs so we don’t blame others. While also becoming apathetic to their suffering and thus not only our own but much of our peerage.
It’s a problem.
Correct, and what’s the root cause of the problem here?
The man who broke the law.
He broke the law. He should be punished.
Maybe you misunderstood the question…
Unpopular take around here, but factually correct
