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Waffle House good Samaritan shot to death paying for meals, handing out $20 bills
WTNH.COM ^ | 04/09/2019 | ABC News

Posted on 04/09/2019 6:49:31 AM PDT by Puppage

Edited on 04/09/2019 7:00:13 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Police arrested Ezekiel Hicks, 25, on murder charges early Sunday in the death of 41-year-old Craig Brewer, who was shot and killed at a Waffle House, in Gainesville, Florida, just a few miles west of the University of Florida.

Officials with the Alachua County Sheriff's Office said the restaurant's surveillance camera captured an altercation between the two on video. Witnesses said the victim was arguing with a female acquaintance of the suspect, who was reportedly upset because Brewer's generosity didn't include her.


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To: Sa-teef

“Dude looks like a lady.”

Agreed. I imagine the guys on the cell block will think so, too.


61 posted on 04/09/2019 8:53:25 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: aquila48

bump


62 posted on 04/09/2019 8:54:31 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Data Miner; polymuser

I’m pretty sure that polymuser was trying to point out the idiocy of her position, not support it.


63 posted on 04/09/2019 8:59:56 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Not using stoning and hangings for murderers is one reason they increase. Murderers oppose the death penalty except when they execute.


64 posted on 04/09/2019 9:02:46 AM PDT by KDF48 (Redeemed by Christ.)
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To: EEGator
carrying an unlicensed firearm

That is NOT relevant. In Florida firearms are not "licensed." It is a sure thing that he doesn't have a carry permit, though, but "unlicensed?" true but not relevant to anything.

65 posted on 04/09/2019 9:13:36 AM PDT by arthurus (tuu)
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To: central_va
I've seen one rattlesnake here in Florida. Lots of cottonmouths too. But no scorpions.

I've lived in Texas several times in my life. My dad was stationed at Lackland AFB in San Antonio when I was a kid. One day he took us to see part of the tarmac on the flight line that was almost completely covered in scorpions. Thousands of them.

Going camping in Arizona one time, driving after dark to get to our camping site on a Friday night, we saw the back road covered in tarantulas. As far as we could see. Again, thousands of them.

One bad experience with critters was in Missouri, camping in the middle of the state somewhere. Walking through the woods to get to a lake near our camp site, I managed to step into a nest of baby chiggers. Red, the size of a period on this screen. Not thousands, but millions of them! They were all over my shoes, socks and pants legs. I went back to the camp site, stripped naked and washed off with bleach. I managed to get most of them kilt but still got several irritating, itching bites nonetheless.

My worse time was in Utah, camping at the state park on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. Everything was fine until dusk when we started frying some pork chops in a pan on the stove. The mosquitoes showed up. Millions of them. All over my wife and I and the meat. Inside my ears, nose, mouth. They were so thick, it felt like they could suffocate you. We immediately broke camp and high-tailed it up the freeway into the mountains and stopped at a pullout to spend the night. We each were covered with bites that itched like crazy all night.

But I have to say that Florida has more irritating insect and animal critters of anywhere I've lived. They've even got a weed called fire weed that burns like someone is holding a flame to your skin. It's all over the place.

66 posted on 04/09/2019 9:15:33 AM PDT by HotHunt (Mollasses runs faster up hill than politicians do running downhill.)
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To: aquila48
Did they give him that for a shirt?


67 posted on 04/09/2019 9:17:58 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: arthurus

I didn’t write that.


68 posted on 04/09/2019 9:18:10 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Retvet

In Florida we have no more crazies than in Alaska. The Alaskan wierdnesses just don’t resonate in the 48. We get most of the publicity.


69 posted on 04/09/2019 9:19:33 AM PDT by arthurus (dffdffff)
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To: Puppage

Now he can get the sec change he’s aways wanted ..on our dime.


70 posted on 04/09/2019 9:21:27 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: Puppage

My mom and dad (In their 80’s) have always liked waffle house and still go. I haven’t been in decades, and avoid them (the restaurant, not my parents), mostly for the food (too greasy) and cleanliness, and partly for the sometimes shady clientele.


71 posted on 04/09/2019 9:23:28 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

LOL! Would have never read that sign. I thought FL had a required format bit can’t find that right now.


72 posted on 04/09/2019 9:23:47 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: HotHunt

Hi.

Have you ever seen walking catfish?

They will walk across the road to the other canal in the thousands.

5.56mm


73 posted on 04/09/2019 9:26:53 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: All; Puppage
I looked at several stories, national and local, and all I see is a photo of the perpetrator.

She's now a celebrity and the good samaritan is a ghost--literally. Doesn't seem right.

74 posted on 04/09/2019 9:29:23 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Fake news lied, credibility died. There was no collusion. MAGA)
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To: Retvet

What’s happening there is the same as everywhere else. Check the website of your local police and look at the crime reports.

Not every story makes its way into the papers or blogs. There is simply too much of it.

The press is probably treating keyword Florida and gun or shooting as a priority story to report because of that last school shooting. Events like that get ratings and they are trying to continue to capitalize on that.

What appears in the press is not the totality of what happens. Your error in logic is the same many make when it comes to guns. Since the press almost never reports on people defending themselves successfully compared to mass shootings, which are always reported, it skews the perception.

If all you knew of cars were the accidents and big pileups you see in the news, you might be inclined to ban those too.


75 posted on 04/09/2019 9:30:10 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: oincobx
He did NOT "stand his ground." He went to his car which was in the parking lot, not right there beside his table, and got his gun out then returned into the WH and shot the guy who dissed him. One has no necessity to retreat but things change when one "retreats" and returns then to the fray.
That said, Gainesville is a special case within Florida, There seems to be more government there than anywhere else in the state including Tallahassee. Every federal and state agency has offices in Gville and abortion clinics at least used to abound. There is UF and a very large CC now 4 year college with the most insane psychology departments, both of them, in America. Those psychs seem to turn up everywhere in local situations and I have seem them ruin lives by malicious diagnosis and treatment of impressionable and previously sane but conflicted students and citizens.<
I lived there thirty+ years ago and have visited from time to time since. After being away for a while I used to get to thinking that it would be nice to live in Gainesille for the climate and surroundings. Then My wife and I visit down there for a couple of days and re-understand in just a few hours why it is we would never ever live there.
76 posted on 04/09/2019 9:30:48 AM PDT by arthurus (ruy&#803;iooo)
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To: M Kehoe

Nope.


77 posted on 04/09/2019 9:31:58 AM PDT by HotHunt (Mollasses runs faster up hill than politicians do running downhill.)
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To: Yo-Yo

None of the WHs hereabouts have such signs.


78 posted on 04/09/2019 9:32:52 AM PDT by arthurus (ruy&#803;ioooOOO)
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To: newzjunkey

>>>She’s now a celebrity<<<

Is it a He or a She?


79 posted on 04/09/2019 9:34:05 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: arthurus
Look again on the outside walls facing the parking lot.


80 posted on 04/09/2019 9:56:23 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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