...Just in case there was any doubts.....
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/would-be-robbers-in-metro-east-pull-gun-on-vietnam/article_0319ba21-4914-560c-985d-26ef050af2d5.html
Posted on 02/04/2017 10:37:11 AM PST by Navy Patriot
An attempted armed robbery turned deadly Thursday when the would-be victim pulled a gun and fired, killing one of the robbers and injuring another, police said.
Billy Dean Dickerson, 19, of St. Louis died Thursday morning when he and Perry A. Richardson, 23, tried to rob a 70-year-old man who was dropping off a friend at her house in the 200 block of Abbott Street in Venice, police said. The man is a Vietnam War veteran from St. Louis.
The veteran and his friend were sitting in his car when Dickerson pulled his vehicle up next to the driver's side, police said. Richardson, who was sitting in the passenger seat, pulled out his gun and demanded money.
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I agree, we definitely need gun control throughou the country. All gun owners should be required to put in a minimum amount of hours at the shooting range every month. Without gun control who knows where the bullets could end up.
He was judged on character and not on skin color.
As the saying goes, don’t mess with an old man. He’s too old to fight, and too old to care, so he’ll just kill you.
A robbery is not a robbery until an item of value is obtained, so it is an attempted robbery. Look at it like an attempted murder—injuries occur, but no death yet.
To quote the mother of a previously dispatched perp, “How else is he supposed to make money?”
Winning is great. I’m confident it will come out that the perps needed money for buying milk for the starving or something.....
There is one good thing about East St. Louis - it was the eastern terminous of the Eads Bridge built in the 1870s (OT):
Eads Bridge is a steel technology combined road and railway bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, connecting St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois. Opened in 1874, it was one of the earliest long bridges built across the Mississippi, the world' first all steel construction, and built high enough so steamboats could travel under.The bridge is named for its designer and builder, James B. Eads. When completed in 1874, the Eads Bridge was the longest arch bridge in the world, with an overall length of 6,442 feet. The ribbed steel arch spans were considered daring, as was the use of steel as a primary structural material: it was the first such use of true steel in a major bridge project. Steel could be used for structural purposes only after the perfection of the Bessemer and Siemens-Martin processes in the 1850s and 60s. So the building material itself was quite new.
The Eads Bridge was also one of the first bridges to make use of pneumatic caissons. The Eads Bridge caissons, still among the deepest ever sunk, were responsible for one of the first major outbreaks of "caisson disease" (also known as "the bends" or decompression sickness). Fifteen workers died, two other workers were permanently disabled, and 77 were severely afflicted.
On June 14, 1874, John Robinson led a "test elephant" on a stroll across the new Eads Bridge to prove it was safe. A big crowd cheered as the elephant from a traveling circus lumbered towards Illinois. It was believed that elephants had instincts that would keep them from setting foot on unsafe structures. July 4, 1874 opened with a 100-gun salute (50 on each side of the river). Then, with 150,000 people looking on, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman drove the last spike, completing Eads Bridge. Eads sent 14 locomotives back and forth across the bridge at one time. The opening day a parade stretched 15 miles through the streets of St. Louis.
There was no robbery.
There was an attempted robbery.
I don’t see the problem.
Gee, he had priors such that he already had a mug shot online? Who would have ever thought that?
I guess the dead idiot slimeball doesn’t get to finish his ImAFeralLoser degree.
If the robbery attempt is unsuccessful then it is just that and, it is botched by virtue of the fact that no robbery occurred. Your sensitivity has overruled good sense.
Wow. Used to be the seventy-year-olds were the WW1 vets you’d see around town. Then the WW2 vets, that was weird. Then the Korean War vets. Now, weirdest of all, its the Viet Nam vets who are into their seventies and pushing 80.
Wow. Time marches on.
This is called taking out the trash. Well done, patriot!
The race riots you reference were whites rioting and attacking blacks. They occurred in several places around that time: Chicago, Tulsa etc.
The one in Chicago was prompted by blacks using the “wrong” beach along the Lake.
A distinction without a difference as far as I’m concerned. They are always inserting needless phrases.
Good writing takes effort, but the tortured syntax and PC styleguide BS takes even MORE effort - pretzel-logic and mental gymnastics, and an often confusing sequence of events, the who, what, and why especially..
Again, it takes a conscious, dedicated effort to write stories badly.
Even the headline is a bit squishy e.g. “would-be” robbers. They are, or were robbers. Armed robbers. They’ve done this before. If they aren’t dead, they’ll almost certainly do it again.
More to the point, IMHO, is that the veteran in question was not a “would be victim” - he was a “would not be” victim.
How else is he supposed to make money?”
Correction it was his sister and she said
“ how else he posed to get monies”
LOL!!
There was no robbery, because he shot him dead! Duh! That’s an important consideration.
My point being, there is always an obvious bias by the news to avoid calling it for what it is. These were robbers. Armed robbers. Everything is always third person “mistakes were made” dissembling BS.
Once you know what to look for, you’ll spot it right away, and learn to reverse engineer their BS.
Richardson and Dickerson.
Something in the names makes me think they got what they deserved...
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