OK here’s my real problem. I severely doubt she had the authority to just pull her gun and shoot anyone who didn’t do what she says. Not even the police can do that. I don’t think it was premeditated murder, but she overstepped her authority. She should have gotten manslaughter at least.
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Your doubts are definitely your problem.
That and your lack of understanding of the power of contracts.
She didn’t overstep anything; she was upholding her guarantee to the court. The perp’s death was unfortunate, but was the result of the felony that he committed when he resisted arrest.
Police shoot fleeing felons from behind all the time.
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“Not even the police can do that”
That’s correct. If it weren’t, why is Michael Slager doing 20 years?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Walter_Scott
And the actual fight between Walter Scott and Michael Slager was real, instead of the fiction that this low rent bail bond woman concocted.
The video shows the guy trying to leave and she clearly pulls out a gun and shoots him in the back as he was leaving. Her only real concern was the money she was going to lose. She has the right to arrest him? So does a cop, but deprivation of rights under color of law applies to her too: the surety bond doesn’t give her life and death decisions over her client. That’s absurd. She didn’t buy him as chattel property. We outlawed that 160 years ago.
Woman murdered a guy and got away with it. Her son is going to be traumatized the rest of his life.