This video will make your day: Sikh immigrant shop owners teach thief a painful lesson

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Very badass. The Sikhs in that video are American heroes.

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Before Santander’s comment, a frankly quite disturbing set of reactions in this thread to an act which clearly went beyond mere self-defence and arguably bordered on sadistic revenge (notwithstanding the possibility that DrScholl points out).

How is it sadistic to protect your own livelihood? These Sikhs immigrated with nothing and they aren’t going to let some psycho destroy their business. Your indifference to what the Sikhs in that video saw with some guy openly destroying their livelihood tells a lot. I am sure that you, someone who lives in a affluent suburb of London and doesn’t presumably know many people who own businesses like this.

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Before Santander’s comment, a frankly quite disturbing set of reactions in this thread to an act which clearly went beyond mere self-defence and arguably bordered on sadistic revenge (notwithstanding the possibility that DrScholl points out).

How is it sadistic to protect your own livelihood? These Sikhs immigrated with nothing and they aren’t going to let some psycho destroy their business. Your indifference to what the Sikhs in that video saw with some guy openly destroying their livelihood tells a lot. I am sure that you, someone who lives in a affluent suburb of London and doesn’t presumably know many people who own businesses like this.

Lol you do know that Sikhs errrr do live in affluent London suburbs?

Yes I know that they do, but it doesn’t matter since the Sikhs shown live in America, and the rest of my points still stand.

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Before Santander’s comment, a frankly quite disturbing set of reactions in this thread to an act which clearly went beyond mere self-defence and arguably bordered on sadistic revenge (notwithstanding the possibility that DrScholl points out).

How is it sadistic to protect your own livelihood? These Sikhs immigrated with nothing and they aren’t going to let some psycho destroy their business.

I have no problem with them tackling and restraining the robber. However, I don’t see how them then beating him with a pole, whether real or staged, is necessary to protect their livelihoods. Call me an out-of-touch bleeding heart, I guess, but I hold the crazy belief that people shouldn’t generally engage in excess violence for purely ‘retributive’ purposes.

The robber was provoking the Sikhs and pulled out a knife. I think that the robber could have posed a serious threat to the workers of the 7/11 hadn't he been subdued and the Sikh with the stick didn't beat him till the robber died, he beat him until he was subdued enough for the other guy to restrain him. 

Your indifference to what the Sikhs in that video saw with some guy openly destroying their livelihood tells a lot. I am sure that you, someone who lives in a affluent suburb of London and doesn’t presumably know many people who own businesses like this.

I could say a lot of things here (iirc you don’t exactly live in a diverse working class area), but because I’m the adult in this conversation I’m going to refrain from most of them . All I’ll say is that I hope that in a few years’ time you’ll look back on posts of yours like these (which have recently taken on a weird right-wing identitarian tone) and be embarrassed.

I have relatives who own/work in similar types of businesses and they came with nothing, worked hard and they faced racism in the process and as a result of their perseverance, they live good middle-class lives. The Sikhs I know are hardworking people who work hard for their families and their communities.

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https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1688223049663848448

What a joke. Looking forward to the crowd going to villainize the heroes for beating up a thug who robbed the store multiple times until the heroes taught him the biggest lesson in his pathetic life. 

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Some of you guys aren't right in the head.

This irony? Looters and shoplifters who steal from hardworking people making an honest living deserve this treatment.

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Some of you guys aren't right in the head.

This irony? Looters and shoplifters who steal from hardworking people making an honest living deserve this treatment.

Where does it stop though? Death? Outside of very violent and heinous crimes there is no justifiable reason to wish brutal violence on someone. You open the door to that and the threshold to violence becomes even lower.

The man lost any right to complain about the treatment he deserved when he threatened the safety of the people in the 7/11 by pulling out a knife/appearing to push someone and being a repeat offender while the police do squat after stealing multiple times. 

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Some of you guys aren't right in the head.

This irony? Looters and shoplifters who steal from hardworking people making an honest living deserve this treatment.

Where does it stop though? Death? Outside of very violent and heinous crimes there is no justifiable reason to wish brutal violence on someone. You open the door to that and the threshold to violence becomes even lower.

The man lost any right to complain about the treatment he deserved when he threatened the safety of the people in the 7/11 by pulling out a knife/appearing to push someone and being a repeat offender while the police do squat after stealing multiple times. 

Legally if a person is restrained any unnecessary force used is going to be deemed assault. Again, we aren't talking about the initial restraint, we are talking about what happened after and the fact that some people on this thread said he should have been beaten even more. What does beating a shoplifter after they've been restrained accomplish? Maybe it makes the store owner feel better, but the law doesn't have revenge loopholes.

Well for one, after the repeat offender looted their store two times, with nothing presumably happening to the looter. It accomplishes justice, something which hasn't been done due to the law not doing anything to the looter.