7-11 Clerk fired for defending her life"

 In the 90's I was a Domino's Pizza Manager, and I carried, as did most of my drivers.  It was in a town in middle Georgia.  Now corporate policy was if you get robbed, don't resist, give them what they want and they will leave.  That policy might have worked 20+ years ago, but by the 90's the perps would rob you then shoot you just for street cred.  That "no resist" policy was put in place to protect the store and the company from lawsuits if the perp got killed because the employee resisted, the company can say "Well the *former* employee violated our policy and resisted so we are not liable," because you know that the family of the now dead perp will go looking for a bottom feeder lawyer to get one of those ghetto lottery verdicts and companies have much deeper pockets than the former employee, but with the violation, the company has no liability and is *off the hook*.  We knew the odds and accepted the risk.  Later I was transferred to a store inside the Atlanta area and I didn't carry and got robbed, beaten, pistol whipped and stabbed by 2 15 year old *minority yuuths*. Fun times. Years later  in late 2006 and early 2007 when I was delivering pizza after Ford shut down before my present employer hired me, I was delivering pizza to keep the wolf at bay, I had 3 robbery attempts on me, they weren't in the hood, the trailer parks, the apartment complexes, they were in the middle class subdivision with a high section 8 population, you know the houses with lawn furniture inside, and the flashy cars well pizza boy carries a pistol and I pulled it every time and they saw it and ran.  Pizza boy was married and had a young son at home and Pizza boy was going home to his family.  As soon as my present employer hired me, I gave the pizza places my 2 weeks notice and I haven't worked it since.

     WHat will fix this stuff is tort reform, and loser pays for bullcrap lawsuits.

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An Oklahoma a 7-Eleven clerk named Stephanie Dilyard was fired for defending her life with a gun.

After 59-year-old Kenneth Thompson allegedly attacked Dilyard, she told KOKH-Fox 25: “This was a situation where I felt like I was put into a corner between choosing between my job, and my life, and I’m always going to choose my life because there’s people that depend on me … .”

Dilyard had worked at the 7-Eleven on a shift from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. for about two years. Then, at about 11:59 p.m. on November 13, according to local media reports, she refused to accept what she thinks was a counterfeit $100 bill for several items.

Thompson then allegedly became violent.

“He threatened me, and said he was gonna slice my head off, and that’s when I tried to call the police,” says Dilyard. “He started throwing things at me, came behind the counter. I tried to run off, but he grabbed his hands around my neck, and pushed me out of the counter space, and that’s when I pulled out my gun and I shot him.”

Thompson then left the store and made his way to an intersection in Oklahoma City, Okla., (MacArthur Blvd. and Northwest 34th St.) and he called 911. 

Police arrived and Thompson was taken to a nearby hospital. He was later charged with assault and battery, threatening acts of violence, attempting to pass a fake (counterfeit) bill and a felony warrant for violating parole.

Oklahoma’s “Stand Your Ground” law legally protects individuals who use force in self-defense. According to local reports, police confirmed that Dilyard is protected under Oklahoma’s self-defense law. 

Dilyard’s job, however, was not safe. She was fired by 7-Eleven for using a gun to defend herself. “They said that they were going to separate from employment because of a violation of policy,” said Dilyard.

Dilyard said that she hopes her ordeal will serve as a wake-up call for other clerks, especially women. People need to be prepared to defend themselves, just as she was. “If I’ve known that there’s a potential that somebody is for real on taking my life away that I will do whatever it takes, and I hope that women see that, and they’ll do the same thing. You have a right to defend yourself,” she told local media.

The corporate media contact for 7-Eleven was asked for comment, but the company has not yet responded. This article will be updated if or when they do.