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Man turns tables on shotgun-wielding attacker
Yahoo News ^ | April 30, 2013 | Mike Krumboltz

Posted on 04/30/2013 11:12:07 AM PDT by detective

A man being robbed at gunpoint at 5 a.m. Saturday morning in New Orleans turned the tables on his attacker when he managed to grab the shotgun, causing the attacker to flee.

The confrontation was captured by surveillance footage from a nearby security camera. According to WWL.com, the victim-turned-vigilante wasn't done yet.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: crime; no; shotgun
New Orleans at night.
1 posted on 04/30/2013 11:12:07 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective
victim-turned-vigilante

Doggone it, a person who defends himself is not a vigilante.

Vigilantes group together and hunt down and punish extra-legally those they object to.

2 posted on 04/30/2013 11:15:01 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
To be a passive victim of one of Obama’s people is what they expect. When someone defends themselves that is when the name calling begins. The MSM would call this man who refused to be a victim a racist, an out of control vigilante, a hater, etc.
3 posted on 04/30/2013 11:18:43 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective
This mornings thread
4 posted on 04/30/2013 11:23:54 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: detective

My favorite quote from the youtube site on this video: “Has to be fake, because a white boy with Balls that Big couldn’t run that fast!” hahahah


5 posted on 04/30/2013 11:24:21 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Sherman Logan

I cannot stand when self-defense is equated with vigilantism.


6 posted on 04/30/2013 11:33:47 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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The famous movie Death Wish was often described as a vigilante movie. It was nothing of the kind. The lead character simply put himself into dangerous situations and then defended himself against those who attacked him. That is NOT vigilantism.

A legally questionable practice, but a far cry from the vigilantes who appointed themselves judge, jury and executioners of people they disliked.


7 posted on 04/30/2013 11:43:38 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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a far cry from the vigilantes who appointed themselves judge, jury and executioners of people they disliked

You mean like black flash mobs?

8 posted on 04/30/2013 11:52:08 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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A male friend, me, and another couple were in downtown NO to go to a restaurant. The two men put me and the other lady in the middle and they walked on either side of us. The men said people who work downtown, which was both of them, get off work, go to their cars in parking buildings and get out of downtown and don't come back until the next day when they again park in their company's parking building. The area where blacks live in subsidized housing is walking distance to downtown and they come in groups every night, taking over downtown. That is true, since they were in groups on the downtown streets at that time.

I wouldn't be downtown after dark by myself - no way.

9 posted on 04/30/2013 12:00:04 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: American in Israel

Vigilantes were usually a little more formally organized than that.

The groups you describe are closer to the old lynch mobs, which were kinda sorta vigilante in nature, but again not really organized as such.


10 posted on 04/30/2013 12:21:04 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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