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Widow of man shot in theater ‘for texting’ hits out at judge after ‘shooter’ released
UK DailyMail online ^ | 11 July 2014 | By ALEX GREIG and SNEJANA FARBEROV

Posted on 07/13/2014 10:21:09 AM PDT by Albion Wilde

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To: smokingfrog
Hopefully, he’ll do the right thing and off himself.

The bad guy has already been offed.

41 posted on 07/13/2014 11:18:04 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Balding_Eagle; smokingfrog

LOL! Now you’re just trolling, Balding. :)


42 posted on 07/13/2014 11:23:11 AM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: Safetgiver

Indeed.

Self-absorbed, easily offended twits demanding the world revolve around them are deeply offended when their selfish behavior is called out. . .


43 posted on 07/13/2014 11:35:31 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: FBD
You don't get to claim fear for your life, after reinserting yourself into harms way.

You have evidence that he was in harm's way before he left his seat to complain to management?

If not, then he wasn't "reinserting" himself into harms way, but at most simply "reinserting" himself into annoyance way.

44 posted on 07/13/2014 11:35:48 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Albion Wilde

Plus she’s probably watching her movies at home now where it doesn’t disturb anyone else.


45 posted on 07/13/2014 11:37:28 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Open Borders, pro-terrorist, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: Balding_Eagle

?


46 posted on 07/13/2014 11:41:00 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
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To: Hulka

Self-absorbed, easily offended twits demanding the world revolve around them are deeply offended when their selfish behavior is called out. . ..Thank you. Get Off your GD CELL PHONE. You could be my friend.


47 posted on 07/13/2014 11:41:08 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: kiryandil; DariusBane

IIRC the original story correctly, no I’m not trolling, simply restating what I stated back then.

The bad guy is already dead, the good (or at least innocent) guy is in jail.

In a civilized society he would only have been questioned.


48 posted on 07/13/2014 11:45:55 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Let’s see what I’ve learned.

Texting doesn’t bother because it doesn’t make noise.

Throwing popcorn is an act in and of itself and not a precursor to a battery.

A 71 year old guy should be ready to deflect the punch of a younger guy.

It’s ok to disturb people during preview, just not during the regular movie.

Not guilty!


I have dreamt that I would be shot in a theatre for telling someone to be quiet. And then pouring a large soft drink on them when they didn’t.

Still deciding if I will or won’t. Maybe I should just carry into the theatre.


49 posted on 07/13/2014 11:46:28 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Open Borders, pro-terrorist, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: Safetgiver

He wasn’t on his cellphone when he was shot.

The old fart cop behind him got rebuffed by management and came back with the intent of picking a fight and when the guy in front of him wouldn’t bite the old fart cop kicked the back of his seat to try to get him to stand up and do something so he could use his gun which he had in his hand the whole time.

That’s your hero — coward to the core.


50 posted on 07/13/2014 11:47:42 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Balding_Eagle

What part of the law and the facts of this incident do you not understand???


51 posted on 07/13/2014 11:49:06 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
Uncle Chip said: The theater was a “no guns” zone.

It was probably a "no snake" zone also. That doesn't change what can happen to you if you attack a snake.

52 posted on 07/13/2014 11:49:43 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: Age of Reason

Good point, I don’t know if he was in any harm. I was inadvertently giving the badge polishers something to cling to. Thanks for pointing out my false assumption.


53 posted on 07/13/2014 11:52:42 AM PDT by FBD
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To: smokingfrog

There’s more to this than meets the eye. Especially since the retired police captain had never shot someone during his career. If you’re interested check out the book that in a chapter explains how Target figured out how a girl was pregnant before her parents did.

It explains where habits reside in the brain and why they are not under conscious control. It may also explain why Reeves shot the guy after being attacked. Even Reeves was shocked by what he had done.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/


54 posted on 07/13/2014 11:54:00 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Uncle Chip

He wasn’t on his cellphone when he was shot.

That’s your hero — coward to the core..... Where did I post he was hero? Please show me, I’m at odds. And I didn’t say he was on his cellphone, I posted where the perp knocked his popcorn out of his lap, which I would interpret as an overagressive act. But that’s just me.


55 posted on 07/13/2014 11:55:04 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: ApplegateRanch
The purpose of bail is to insure the accused’s appearance at trial; and rarely, (supposedly, but more and more often not) denial to protect the public from a particular and imminent menace. I see a very disturbing trend in wanting to use it as pretrial punishment, as well as a steady escalation of what constitutes the Constitutionally mandated “reasonable bail”.

In the days when a speedy trial really meant a speedy trial, and the victims on the sparsely-populated prairies were armed with shotguns and could shoot trespassers without themselves being strung up legally, your scenario worked a lot better. Now, alleged killers, rapists and child abusers are out on bail for months and years of legal maneuvering, discovery and orchestrated delays in densely populated, disarmed and indifferent urbs and suburbs with superhighways and virtally unpoliceable beltways and dozens of ways to search and intimidate victims, witnesses and even jury members. Even after a wrongful acquittal such as the OJ trial, legal "victors" can continue to harass and stalk victims or their families, and it OJ's case, wrest custody of his children from a secure home and raise them with the man later convicted of wrongful death of their mother. It's a different world.

I see nothing wrong with extended stays when there is a preponderance of evidence: in this case, eyewitnesses who were complete strangers and video. It might make the lawyers hurry up a little and go with the truth instead of shredding it into microscopic layers to find a loophole for a felon to walk through.

56 posted on 07/13/2014 11:57:44 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: DoodleDawg

You are correct as far you’ve gone. You left out the attack by Oulson. FWIW, never throw popcorn into someone’s face that has just returned to a dark theater, whose eyesight had probably not adjusted to the dark and who had been through years of training to respond to a threat.

It got Oulson killed.


57 posted on 07/13/2014 11:58:59 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Uncle Chip

You’re ignoring the testimony of the retired Air Force intelligence officer.


58 posted on 07/13/2014 12:00:11 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: FBD

She had her hand on her husband’s chest to try and calm him. Reeves only fired one shot.


59 posted on 07/13/2014 12:01:52 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Uncle Chip
Here is the theatre video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G27d9hCjsUE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

OMG -- worse even than I imagined. He just up and shot him instantly after the popcorn was dumped. Neither guy was even standing.

60 posted on 07/13/2014 12:08:50 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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