{"id":179,"date":"2009-09-17T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayethics\/2009\/09\/annie-les-murder-a-case-of-workplace-violence.html"},"modified":"2009-09-17T13:07:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T13:07:12","slug":"annie-les-murder-a-case-of-workplace-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayethics\/2009\/09\/annie-les-murder-a-case-of-workplace-violence.html","title":{"rendered":"Annie Le’s Murder: A Case Of Workplace Violence?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As lab tech <\/span>Raymond Clark III appeared in a New Haven court today to be charged
\nwith the murder of 24-year-old Annie Le, killed by “traumatic asphyxiation” just
\ndays before she was to be married and found stuffed in a wall of the Yale lab
\nwhere she was a graduate student, the AP is reporting<\/span><\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n

New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said Le’s death was a case
\nof workplace violence. <\/span><\/i>“It is important to note that this is not about urban crime,
\nuniversity crime, domestic crime but an issue of workplace violence, which is
\nbecoming a growing concern around the country,” Lewis said, adding he
\nwasn’t ruling out additional charges.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Also according to the AP, Yale’s
\npresident issued a statement to the Yale community saying: <\/span><\/p>\n

“This incident could have happened in any city, in any university,
\nor in any workplace. It says more about the dark side of the human soul than it
\ndoes about the extent of security measures.”<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

This is a terrible story, and
\nwhat makes it doubly frightening to me is this notion of “coworkers gone
\nwild” or gone “postal,” as we used to say, before that became too un-PC.<\/span><\/p>\n


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The workplace ought to be safe, secure, and protected. Doesn’t that seem like one of our rights as students, as workers? Don’t we have an expectation of security? Or is Le’s murder just a sad aberration?<\/span><\/p>\n

The cultural decline in civility we’ve all been discussing so much lately<\/a> may or may not have been a factor in Le’s case, but what’s important in the larger sense is that we ask ourselves, “What is this rage so many of us seem to harbor? Why is it backing up inside us, and how can we find better, safer release valves so that folks aren’t snapping left and right?” <\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, this Clark fellow may have been an incurable nut (I don’t know much about him) but if we’re slinging around terms like “workplace violence” (see OSHA’s definition here<\/a>) like everyone is totally familiar with them at first hearing, it means we’re all unsurprised at the idea one of our coworkers could blow a gasket and do us physical harm. We’re living with this reality every day.<\/i> Yikes!<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you have someone in your workplace who scares you? Would you like to see more precautions taken to keep you safe? (BTW: Here are OSHA’s safety recommendations<\/a>, for anyone who may find them useful.)<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Photo: AP<\/i><\/p>\n

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