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Sneederbunk

(14,279 posts)
3. If shooter was a cop there would be different outcome.
Sat Aug 17, 2019, 08:19 PM
Aug 2019

Also, headline indicates that it is important that teen was black, but not that clerk was Mid-Eastern.

shoulda been first degree. picking up a gun is intent to use nt msongs Aug 2019 #1
Disagree. Chemisse Aug 2019 #7
If you keep a gun at the counter so you can use it against someone who tries to rob/steal from you, thesquanderer Aug 2019 #17
I'm no lawyer radical noodle Aug 2019 #18
I disagree. If the store clerk was defending himself that's one thing but his life was not cstanleytech Aug 2019 #19
Still in the heat of the moment, imo. Chemisse Aug 2019 #21
Guns make any dispute so much worse IronLionZion Aug 2019 #2
If shooter was a cop there would be different outcome. Sneederbunk Aug 2019 #3
You know why IronLionZion Aug 2019 #10
Yes, whats left out is just as important as whats not. But thats typical. oldsoftie Aug 2019 #11
How exactly ... jb5150 Aug 2019 #4
Good melm00se Aug 2019 #5
Exactly! Nt VarryOn Aug 2019 #12
Anwar Ghazali, think he thought his job in jeopardy for thefts by 'customers?' elleng Aug 2019 #6
I have no sympathy. Chemisse Aug 2019 #8
"I might get fired so I should murder someone." NYC Liberal Aug 2019 #22
Would Ghazali have been convicted if he were White? Video Drone Aug 2019 #9
A similar indicent occurred in Las Vegas recently but didn't get much exposure pecosbob Aug 2019 #13
Sadly, in Texas he would have been acquitted. Xipe Totec Aug 2019 #14
I do not condone the Scarsdale Aug 2019 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Aug 2019 #20
Threatening with a bat is not the same as shooting in the back. McCamy Taylor Aug 2019 #23
How would you feel Scarsdale Aug 2019 #24
"Maybe the shopkeeper had had more than enough of this stealing." mac56 Aug 2019 #26
Crime does not pay FJLACAFTA Aug 2019 #16
kick Blue_Tires Aug 2019 #25
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