The clerk is smart and these 6 words prove it:
“I was scared for my life,” Nguyen told The Post on Friday.
Exactly. It should be a legal presumption, in fact, that a criminal who jumps the barrier into the employee-only space with criminal intent constitutes, de facto, an imminent and deadly threat to the employees behind that counter (similar to how the Castle Doctrine works here in Florida). That needs to become black letter law wherever possible.