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2023-01-12 -Great Cultural Revolution
Armed diner who fatally shot robber in Houston restaurant heist will face grand jury
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Posted by trailing wife 2023-01-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

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Posted by NN2N1 2023-01-12 07:08||   2023-01-12 07:08|| Front Page Top

#2 They're gonna get him for the last final kill shot
Posted by Frank G 2023-01-12 07:28||   2023-01-12 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess the old adage of "If it's worth shooting, it's worth shooting a lot" is out the window.....
Posted by Mercutio 2023-01-12 07:59||   2023-01-12 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Never really dealing with career criminals is a strategy and one that has nothing to do with empathy. It degrades the fabric of social cohesion in what until quite recently was a high trust society.

The other side of that rancid coin is heavily prosecuting self defense, preferably in high profile show trials. That in turn discourages self reliance.

It's not an accident, it's not those 'crazy, egghead liberals', at this point on the curve it is more evidence of destruction from within since we have not been destroyed by external forces.
Posted by Cesare 2023-01-12 08:14||   2023-01-12 08:14|| Front Page Top

#5 I expect a pardon on the governor's desk the day after.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-01-12 08:41||   2023-01-12 08:41|| Front Page Top

#6 They're gonna get him for the last final kill shot

Yep. All was fine until he fired those last coup de grâce shots after the goblin collapsed. Any state you are in made it illegal.
Posted by DarthVader 2023-01-12 10:29||   2023-01-12 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 You know The Band is banging the drum, "Black Male turning his life around gunned down from behind, executed by White Man angry about his dinner being interrupted."

Don't know Texas/Houston procedures, but Grand Jury would be pretty standard procedure?
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-01-12 11:19||   2023-01-12 11:19|| Front Page Top

#8 His only defense may be that the last shot was post-mortem and he is only guilty of desecration of a corpse.
Posted by Glenmore  2023-01-12 11:21||   2023-01-12 11:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Knowing when to fire is just as important as knowing how to fire. That last couple of shots might do him in since there was no threat to life or property.
Posted by CrazyFool 2023-01-12 11:56||   2023-01-12 11:56|| Front Page Top

#10 I took a concealed carry course several years ago. One of the things the instructor emphasized is that you stop shooting when there is no longer a threat. If the perp was down, and (probably) not moving, there is no threat.
I am not a lawyer, but to me (based only on news reports here at the 'burg), it seems to me that the guy did go beyond what was necessary.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-01-12 12:20||   2023-01-12 12:20|| Front Page Top

#11 "Fire for effect!"
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-12 12:22||   2023-01-12 12:22|| Front Page Top

#12 M. Murcek, that's a great idea in war, when you want to make the rubble bounce. Not necessarily in this case.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-01-12 12:32||   2023-01-12 12:32|| Front Page Top

#13 ...since there was no threat to life or property.

Given the perp's history of recidivism, he remained a threat to life and property in society while he was among us. Doing the job the state no longer wants to do.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-01-12 13:29||   2023-01-12 13:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Not necessarily in this case

So, bring dogs to ravage the corpse?
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-12 13:52||   2023-01-12 13:52|| Front Page Top

#15 Come on now.
Patrons could have tripped on the thug in their hurried exiting. He was still a danger.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-12 14:41||   2023-01-12 14:41|| Front Page Top

#16 Cops are trained to do a magazine dump once they start firing. And rightfully so. Plenty of video out there where the cop was killed after the suspect was shot. Private citizens being held to a different standard of self defense is bullshit. If there is to be a double standard at all it should be reversed. But I agree they will prosecute on the last shots fired. Remember kids, keep firing until the enemy changes shapes or catches on fire.
Posted by Lowspark 2023-01-12 15:01||   2023-01-12 15:01|| Front Page Top

#17 Count the shots.
Was his magazine too big?
Did he have too many rounds of bullet?
Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-12 15:21||   2023-01-12 15:21|| Front Page Top

#18 Three predictions:
(1) The shooter walks. Jurors on the grand jury will think "what would I have done?"
(2) There will much wailing about 'vigilante justice' from the usual loud mouths.
(3) There will be either an attempt to gin up a federal case or a lawsuit by the deceased's family.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-01-12 15:29||   2023-01-12 15:29|| Front Page Top

#19 Make the rubble bounce
Posted by Regular joe 2023-01-12 16:23||   2023-01-12 16:23|| Front Page Top

#20 'vigilante justice'

...happens when the populace no longer believes the 'state' will do its job and give them justice. As in when DAs treat predators like victims and judges are more concern with 'virtue' rather than 'justice'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-01-12 17:43||   2023-01-12 17:43|| Front Page Top

#21 That area has a lot of crime. The last shots were frustration shots from a law abiding citizen.
Posted by Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2023-01-12 19:48||   2023-01-12 19:48|| Front Page Top

#22 Absolutely. Understood. Just speculating on what the SOROS DA will try and prosecute on. IMNSHO - a societal favor done
Posted by Frank G 2023-01-12 20:25||   2023-01-12 20:25|| Front Page Top

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