'I wasn't going to let him get away with it': Dramatic moment pregnant woman runs down a fleeing...

Daily Mail UK ^ | June 29, 2017 | Gareth Davies For Mailonline

[Morgana]

FULL TITLE: 'I wasn't going to let him get away with it': Dramatic moment pregnant woman runs down a fleeing man 'who stole purse from her car' in Walmart parking lot

This is the dramatic moment a pregnant woman mowed down a fleeing man she accused of stealing a purse from her car in a Walmart parking lot.

Christine Braswell, 26, said the man - identified as Robert Raines - was rummaging through her SUV picking her valuables from the vehicle in Asheville, North Carolina.

After she started chasing the man on foot, she quickly realized being five months pregnant she could not keep up the pace, so she got in her car and ran him over in footage captured on camera.

[sport]

What did I do to make you mad?

[MeganC]

You didn’t make me mad. You were CC’d on a post that was directed at me and etiquette says you should be included on the response.

Cheers,

- Megan

[sport]

Think you.

[ifinnegan]

“I am NOT sticking up for the perp...”

Yes, you are.

You’re saying he stole her stuff fair and square and she has no right to do something about it.

[Yo-Yo]

You’re saying he stole her stuff fair and square and she has no right to do something about it.

100% correct. I am saying that she has no right to use deadly force to stop a fleeing felon. She has the right to use deadly force to defend herself and her property, and if she ran over the guy as he was attempting to reach into her vehicle, I'm OK with that.

It's similar to the guy who caught a man and a woman breaking into his home. He shot them both, then put another bullet into the guy as he laid motionless at the bottom of a stairway. The first shots were justified, the last shots got him a murder charge. This is the slippery slope that I refer to.

http://www.samson-law.com/homeowner-charged-seconddegree-murder-teens/

[ifinnegan]

So don’t say you aren’t sticking up for the robber.

[Yo-Yo]

So don’t say you aren’t sticking up for the robber.

I am sticking up for the law. Big difference.

[The_Media_never_lie]

It needs to be discouraged because the perp was fleeing, her life was not in danger, and the law does not permit one to take revenge on a property crime. She took revenge, plain and simple.

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Without getting emotionally attached to one or the other folks in this incident, I am not sure her motive was revenge. She may have been simply using minimum force necessary to stop a fleeing felon.

I had a friend who once watched a prison inmate fleeing pursuing guards. The guards shot the fleeing felon. Never any charges. Isn't this similar?

Had she not stopped the suspect, chances are he would never have been apprehended, and therefore on the loose to possibly have a physical altercation from a robbery victim.

[Yo-Yo]

I had a friend who once watched a prison inmate fleeing pursuing guards. The guards shot the fleeing felon. Never any charges. Isn't this similar?

I understand where you're coming from, and I'm not saying that she deserves jail time. But no, your example is not the same thing because the prison inmate was charged, tried, and convicted in a court of law, and was serving out a lawfully adjudicated sentence in the custody of the State. Fleeing Felon Rule.

Had she not stopped the suspect, chances are he would never have been apprehended, and therefore on the loose to possibly have a physical altercation from a robbery victim.

Another slippery slope. In all likelihood he wouldn't have ever been caught and tried for this particular crime. But speculation about his possible future actions, without the knowledge of his prior actions, is not justification for deadly force. Would she have been equally justified in shooting the guy in the back as he ran? How about if she just hit him in the leg?