Posted on 04/02/2020 6:49:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Virginia store clerk heard a crash that sounded like a car had crashed into the place at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. He grabbed a gun and shot at three masked men he found stealing merchandise and cash from the shop.
When it was over, the clerk was the one in handcuffs. He now sits in jail on no bail, charged with crimes for which he could be locked up for 20 years. Those charges include: "Malicious Wounding, Reckless Handling of a Firearm and Violation of a Protective Order."
Police say they'll get around to charging the robbers later.
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The police incident report says that this is what got 33-year-old Hamzeh Abushariah sent to jail,
The preliminary investigation indicates that three subjects forced entry into a business and began stealing cash and merchandise. An employee inside a secure back room heard the break in, retrieved a firearm, opened the door to the sales floor and discharged the weapon, striking one juvenile subject. The employee retreated to the back room but reentered the sales floor and discharged his weapon again as the subjects were attempting to flee the business.
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For everyone who thinks the police are their friends. He probably talked to police WITHOUT A LAWYER PRESENT
Tell the bad guys they are free to whatever they want.
That’s the ticket.
In the Great Depression and the era of Dillinger and Bonnie & Clyde, the federal government stepped up and implemented major gun control legislation.
If we go into another Depression, maybe it can work in reverse and we can get new laws that say citizens can defend life and property with little fear of prosecution. That would be nice.
One little rather important detail left out of the story.. he shot at them as they were running away from the store. Here in Virginia, you can gun them down when your life is in danger, but not when they perps are running in the other direction.
Not that I agree with prosecuting the clerk... I don’t... but that law is what landed him in jail.
Hopefully he will get a jury trial and the jurors will decide rightly.
Reading the article (silly me) makes it sound like the clerk may have had a red flag protective order against him. Still not enough info from the article to declare pure innocence.
Tell the bad guys they are free to whatever they want.
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Yep, may as well put up a sign at the state line that says this.
Which is why you NEVER talk to police. Get a lawyer.
They were in the store and they pointed what I thought was a gun at me. I acted in self defense because I was in fear for my life.
Police are there to put people in jail. They are not your friends.
When this stuff goes down, “DON’T TALK TO THE POLICE”.
“On the advice of my lawyer....”
Zip it.
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Richmond, Alexandria, Falls Church and Fairfax.
Liberal shitholes destroyed Virginia.
I suspect the shop owner also failed to make the “correct” political “contributions” he was “expected” to make.
I would get in trouble in my state too for doing that.
To be fair, I understand that part of the law, even if in my heart I think it should be otherwise.
But I know the law, and it is what it is. I am not going to bunk with Bubba because I had a notion people should be shot for stealing.
If more people were dealt with physically in the act of stealing, there would be less of it, but...law is law.
The guy was under a protective order, so maybe not a saint, but not required to forfeit his life either. He was sleeping at the shop under the owner’s permission. Per the order, he did not have a gun, but did have access to one of the owner’s guns. Exigent circumstances. And the whole “they were running away” crap is stupid in the heat of a gunfight. If he wasn’t chasing them down the street, firing, they should drop the charges.
Perhaps but note the name of the clerk. Some cultures don’t play that
I knew they wanted to take guns from non-violent citizens and leave them in the hands of violent criminals.
If people steal from the government why don’t they just say oh well and let the criminals go? That is what Government expects from a private business.
For amusement — on the TV show “Justified” there was a scene were a violent offender was running away from LEO Raylan Givens. As he ran, the offender held out his gun behind him and attempted to take a final shot at the LEO. But he didn’t get the chance. Givens put him down.
So now the bad guy is lying on the ground and he says, “You shot me in the back!!”
Givens replies: “Well, if you wanted to be shot in the front, you should have been running toward me.”
But it’s TV.
Legal insurance for self defense. I consider it a must have for CCW holders.
Parisa Dehghani-Tafti is the Commonwealth Attorney for Arlington. She was one of the Soros puppets that was installed in various “progressive” locales. You don’t need to know anything more as to why these charges were placed.
https://courts.arlingtonva.us/commonwealth-attorney/meet-parisa/
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