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Algiers pastor who shot suspected copper thief outside church accepts plea offer
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 11/10/15 | Ken Daley, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

Posted on 11/10/2015 4:30:41 PM PST by BBell

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Everyone has a breaking point.

1 / 26 W.L.T. Littleton, pastor of the Greater Morning Star Baptist Church, walks away after retrieving a handgun from his vehicle and giving it to an investigator as New Orleans police work the scene of a shooting outside the church on Vallette Street on Wednesday,

1 posted on 11/10/2015 4:30:42 PM PST by BBell
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To: BBell

Was the suspected copper thief actually a copper thief or misidentified as such?


2 posted on 11/10/2015 4:35:59 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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Was it just copper?

Since it was a church, maybe it was a copper clapper caper.

3 posted on 11/10/2015 4:39:55 PM PST by Bratch
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To: gorush

He was probably a copper thief- churches down here in FL have been plagued by people destroying air conditioners just to get at the copper tubing.

Thieves destroyed two of our church’s brand new AC units worth several thousand bucks just to make a little on the stolen copper. They hit a bunch of churches over a few days in two or three counties.


4 posted on 11/10/2015 4:41:34 PM PST by piasa
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He admitted to shooting 51-year-old Rodney Mitchell twice in the head on Aug. 27, 2014. The pastor said he caught Mitchell and Mitchell's 35-year-old nephew, Joseph Cross, dismantling and stealing copper tubing from air conditioner units between his Greater Morning Star Baptist Church and an adjacent snowball stand he owns in the 1200 block of Vallette Street.
5 posted on 11/10/2015 4:41:49 PM PST by BBell
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A guy really ought to be able to shoot thieves. I view it as a disincentive for future acts.


6 posted on 11/10/2015 4:43:42 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: BBell

Does the Lincoln belong to the cop or the preacher?


7 posted on 11/10/2015 4:46:22 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Bratch

Thanks. I have not seen that in awhile. Always good for a laugh.


8 posted on 11/10/2015 4:46:23 PM PST by BBell
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To: gorush

Only in Texas.

In Virginia we have a “duty to retreat”, I can’t legally shoot until I’m cornered.


9 posted on 11/10/2015 4:46:50 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PAR35

Most likely the Preacher.


10 posted on 11/10/2015 4:47:49 PM PST by BBell
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To: BBell

If it was night, can you shoot a copper thief in Louisiana?


11 posted on 11/10/2015 4:47:53 PM PST by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: gorush

Indeed, criminals dying in the commission of their crimes (at the hands of their intended victims) isn’t a bad thing.

That goes for rioters and looters especially.

Oddly, some of the same people I’ve encountered who maintain that you should not be able to kill a criminal in the commission of a crime over mere property will, when pressed on abortion, finally fall back on her body:her property.


12 posted on 11/10/2015 4:48:44 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: BBell

Sounds to me like the Pastor deserves a commendation rather than jail time.


13 posted on 11/10/2015 4:49:46 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Rurudyne

Ain’t that the truth?!


14 posted on 11/10/2015 4:49:53 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Bratch

Awww I don’t think that’s funny.

Guess that makes me a copper clapper caper carper!

lol


15 posted on 11/10/2015 4:52:35 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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Wow!

Thieves are now considered “protected class”.


16 posted on 11/10/2015 4:53:25 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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Well, those snowball stands must make pretty good money in the ‘hood.


17 posted on 11/10/2015 4:57:52 PM PST by PAR35
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Unbelievable. The prosecutors and cops are worse than the criminals. They ARE the criminals.


18 posted on 11/10/2015 5:10:31 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: BBell

Whoever wrote this isn’t local. Louisiana only has Snoball stands, not snowball stands.


20 posted on 11/10/2015 5:24:37 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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