[drpix]

Here's a gif of the only important part of the encounter:

1) When the boyfriend comes out of the store the girlfriend gets out of the car and in the face of the guy outside her car.

2) This distracts the guy so that he never sees the assailant/boyfriend charging him and he is slammed to the ground with no warning and with such force that it was a miracle that his head wasn't whip-lashed into the pavement.

3) Civilians are trained not to draw their gun until the are justified in using it - and not for holding someone at bay. So for a civilian, drawing a weapon and shooting it are one continuous action.

4) So the question is what was the assailant/boyfriend doing when the assaulted guy drew his weapon. After so violently slamming the guy to the ground he was hovering and advancing with his girlfriend also still standing near the guy from another direction. The assailant/boyfriend didn't stop moving forward till the gun was already drawn - and it was too late.

It was fully reasonable for the guy (even if he was a loudmouthed idiot) to fear further violence - that could "imminently result in his death or serious bodily harm."

[kiryandil]

I totally agree.

This poor guy Drejka has had an AWFUL run of luck dealing with the ferals overrunning his town of Clearwater, FL.

But he's manfully dealing with the problem, one feral at a time.

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In an interview with Tampa’s Fox 13, store owner Ali Salous said he wasn’t surprised Drejka killed someone after watching him “become argumentative” over the same issue last month. The owner also said he called police after the first fight.

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Salous says Drejka has a history of confrontations in and around his store.

"He told me I can't help it. Every time I do this I get in trouble, and I can't help it. I keep doing it," Salous said.

[last month] Rick Kelly, who drives a septic tank truck, briefly parked his tanker in this handicapped spot outside the Circle A Food Store before running inside this store for a beverage. When he came out, he saw Drejka taking pictures of his vehicle.

"He asked me (if) was I handicapped, and I said, 'Obviously, I'm driving a tanker. I'm not handicapped.' And I asked if was he handicapped and he stated 'No, my mom is,'" Kelly said.

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And in 2012, Tyler Smith, 18, accused a driver later identified as Drejka of hanging a gun outside of his truck window during a road rage incident in Palm Harbor, northwest of Tampa, according to law enforcement documents obtained by NBC News.

Smith, whose account was corroborated by his passenger, told a Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy that Drejka began yelling and honking at him when he stopped at a yellow traffic light, the documents say.

Smith said Drejka then dangled a black handgun from his driver’s side window and placed two magazines on his truck’s dashboard. After Drejka followed the car, the passenger told the deputy, Smith called the sheriff’s office to report him — though he didn’t want to press charges, according to the documents.

During an interview with deputies, Drejka said he’d yelled at Smith and honked his horn after the car cut him off, the documents say. Drejka denied following the vehicle or displaying a Glock that he kept in his truck’s center console.

No charges were filed in the case and the documents say Drejka’s concealed weapon’s license was valid.

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I feel safer knowing guys like Drejka are keeping an eye on "things".

I just hope I don't accidentally wander into one of his invisible "trigger spaces"...

[greenishness]

I didn’t notice that the gf opens the car door and gets out as soon as she sees her bf exit the store. It is possible when the guy saw her exit then got pushed to the ground he feared further assault. I did notice the guy that was complaining about the parking spot stayed 4-5 feet from the car window the entire conversation.

I still don’t know if the shooting was justified, would this assault have escalated if the shooter did not end it?

[Envisioning]

The display of the firearm seemed to end the threat, the dead guy was retreating, can’t tell if the shot takes place in this video.....

[wardaddy]

Your synopsis is inaccurate and your vid is clipped at the most important part

Do it all over..lol

Do you shoot anyone pushes you or hits you?

If you do you’re just soft....no offense ....that’s nuts

Folks here can’t fight they just shoot ....really?

Why cause they have some steel courage on their hip is why

Again no offense

Even at my age I fight ...I wouldn’t kill someone in front of his five year old for pushing me down.

That’s absurd

He approached the woman.....he has a habit of that

Read background on the shooter....have you done that..

His gun is his stroker.....a history of thst

He’s going to end up charged as well he should be...sherrif ain’t last word

Manslaughter

[packrat35]

Amazing to me that freepers on this thread think that being pushed to the ground is just a minor thing and he should have just taken it.

Large man violently assaulted a smaller man in an ambush (as you can see he didn’t see it coming) will get you shot by me EVERYTIME. if I was him!!

[Sir_Ed]

Actually, in watching that over and over, it seems to me like the bad guy was backing away after the bad guy drew his gun.

If the threat ceases, you can’t really pursue it later!

Ed