Employee handbooks typically prohibit any and all forms of violence and do not make an exception for self defense. In many cases just carrying the pepper spray is a firing offense.

The store for making her an enforcer and not allowing her to defend herself. And the assailant.

I despise Trump's version of America. We should be allowed to defend ourselves from people who would attack us like that.

She was assaulted by a customer and defended herself and called the cops. Suspending her is fucked up.

and it hasn't gotten any better. They can't fight back either. The most they can do is restrain and ask for a med order. Yet they manage to do this without crushing a windpipe, using pepper spray, tasing the patient 50 times or shooting them in the back.

that medical workers get training in handling potentially dangerous situations that store clerks don't get.