Don't think Al and Jesse will be showing up for this incident.
Posted on 10/14/2013 4:10:49 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: South Carolina man who shot unarmed teenager dead will NOT face trial under controversial Stand Your Ground law
A South Carolina mother has spoken out in shock after it was announced on Friday that the man who shot dead her 17-year-old son will not be tried for his murder because of the state's 'Stand Your Ground Law'.
In April 2010, Shannon Anthony Scott, who was then 33, opened fire on a SUV full of teenage girls outside his home in Columbia and unintentionally hit unarmed 17-year-old Darrell Andre Niles in his car, killing him.
Despite being arrested and charged with the murder of Niles immediately after the shooting, Scott's legal team successfully argued for immunity under the state's Protection of Persons and Property ACT, otherwise known as the Castle Doctrine or 'Stand Your Ground' law.
Niles' mother, Deatra Niles, can't believe Scott may never come to court
'It's not right; it's not right,' said Niles. 'Just to think he took my child's life away when my baby was helping his child get home.'
Richland County Judge Maite Murphy ruled that Scott genuinely believed his life was in danger and was therefore justified in using deadly force.
The court heard that Scott meant to shoot at a car that was full of teenage girls who had threatened the life of his daughter and who drove past his house and fired shots.
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Um, yeah, for sure.
This article is garbled even by Daily Mail standards. Was young Mr. “Boo Boo” Niles in the car with the teenaged girls who were shooting at Mr. Scott’s house? And where was the baby?
Yea I know. “Her baby” was 17! So that was her grandbaby he was taking home? Some mom!
I like the way he was “helping his child get home,” as if the child was capable of getting home on its own. Wherever home is. Whoever the child is.
Who are these people?
“I like the way he was “helping his child get home,” as if the child was capable of getting home on its own. “
Come on TC the lad is only 17 so I figure his child is only what? An infant to about two years? Strapped in a car seat maybe?
“Who are these people?”
Obama voters!
Good point.
Yeah, that's what I want to know, too.
What a crap article.
Maybe one of the teenaged girls was the baby-mama.
The way I read the article it appears he was not. Scott shot at the car that was threatening him and hit the other car, killing Niles. Now, did the bullet go through the car full of people threatening him and then hit Niles? In that case I could see him not being charged. It was just unfortunate that the bullet didn't hit one of the perpetrators first.
I read that article three times and still have no idea what occurred other than some guy got shot.
Okay, fact gained. Mr. Niles was not in the car with the girls.
Stupid Brits. Do they not realize that if the other teenagers in the car were committing a crime at the time of Trayvon's Darrell's death, they would be charged with his murder, as if they'd killed him themselves.
"Stand Your Ground" is only one law that protects citizens in this country who are not the aggressors and not the criminals in a deadly force situation. It is only controversial to people who wish only the police had guns. That was tried once: Communism. Its outcome was predictable.
“This article is garbled even by Daily Mail standards.”
Yes, it’s a complete mess. I have no idea what happened, but I see from the photos that all involved were black, so it must be Bush’s fault.
I scanned other articles about this story, and some of them tried to transform the shooter into a "white guy", so they could make it a race issue.
Don't think Al and Jesse will be showing up for this incident.
The writer at the link in post 11 claims this man could be white, or have associations with “white privilege.”
We live in Bizarro World.
This article is awfully short of facts and awfully long on hyperbole!
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