Posted on 08/17/2019 8:13:56 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
A jury found a grocery clerk guilty of killing a 17-year-old boy who ran out of the store with a beer he didn't pay for in Memphis, Tennessee, in a case that had sparked protests, authorities said.
Anwar Ghazali was convicted of second-degree murder after a four-day trial, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said Friday.
"This defendant took it upon himself to be the judge and jury and the executioner over a $2 beer," prosecutor Lora Fowler said, according to CNN affiliate WMC.
The shooting happened in March 2018, after Dorian Harris walked out of the Top Stop Shop with a beer without paying, Weirich said.
Security video of the incident played in court shows that Ghazali, while behind the counter dealing with another customer, pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Harris. He then ran outside to follow the teen and fired several times.
Afterward, he returned to the store and told a witness, "I think I shot him." He did not call the police, and neither did any other customer inside the store, WMC reported.
Harris was shot at least three times and was left to bleed out, Fowler said. His body was found two days later in a yard near the store with gunshots in the back of his thigh, Weirich said.
Ghazali's defense attorney, Blake Ballin, told CNN in an email that Ghazali maintains he acted recklessly that night but his intention was never to harm Harris.
He said they were pleased that the jury rejected the prosecution's argument that this was a calculated and premeditated murder motivated by the theft of a beer. That would have come with a potential life sentence.
Ghazali is expected to be sentenced on September 23.
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Only in the winter, when they’re fattest.
Hmmm.
Selling a beer to a kid vs. killing a kid for stealing a two-dollar one.
I wonder which one has a chance of going to ‘heaven’?
Yep. Some of our new guests adopt the bearing arms idea but they lack the sense of proportionality that is native to the American character.
I’m glad that you, and others with your sensibilities, predominate here.
That seems to be the case. If someone had called 911, maybe he would’ve survived.
I hope you got your money back. Or, at least, I hope the guy suffered some kind of penalty.
Sure, the Jamestown Ghazalis...big mistake on his part.
Don’t feel bad. A customer asked to see a pair of shoes in his size. Another employee and I went out of our way, looking through the stockroom, to find his shoe size. He was very appreciative: “Thank you.” He smiled. We found out later he was a known thief and those shoes had walked right out the door with him.
Tie goes to the runner!
“If you didn’t want me to steal you shouldn’t open a store”
I got back 160,000 of 455,000
He ripped off a group of us in a mining venture
Some Freepers knew who he was when I talked about him here years ago
A real piece of work
He’s still alive today gratis my southern baptist upbringing
“frankly, Mr. Yale, you can take your majority leftist californiacians and stuff them.”
That’s MS Yaelle to you, buster. Assuming that my pal Yaelle is still identifying with the gender she/he/they was born with.
I wish I was allowed to stuff all the leftist Californians. We could stuff them with the homeless trash.
Pelham, I have finally decided to remain within the female gender. If it snowed here more, I’d reconsider. It is way harder for us girls to take a pee in the snow.
Pastor Pete, Peter Weissbach. I loved his show, and the concept of life energy still influences my thoughts on this today. I will never think of “things” as “easily replaceable” again. Some things are not worth defending physically, or with extreme measures. The owner of the things should be allowed the dignity of being able to protect his things though.
I don’t know how much the “squawk box” radios that the police carry around are worth, but guess $200 or less. If a punk reaches into a squad car and runs off with a cops communication device, I am thinking the police may use some level of violence to get it back.
If someone takes a shotgun out of a squad car, the cops will shoot him sure as shootin’.
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