Rufus Anderson
Posted on 01/06/2023 6:14:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A Dollar General store clerk in Monroe, Louisiana, shot and killed an alleged armed robber Monday and was subsequently charged with manslaughter.
FOX News reported Monday’s robbery made six times the store had been targeted since August.
The News Star noted clerk Rafus Anderson shot the alleged robber Monday, and police found the suspect collapsed and “lying on the money he had taken from the store.”
Anderson told police he feared for his life and shot at the suspect but was not sure he hit him “because he continued to run.”
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It does. But you shoot before the guy turns to run away. You need him facing you with a weapon preferably.
If I worked at Dollar General I’d sure as hell be armed. Most of the time the clerk is there alone.
Not enough details. Article makes it sound like the clerk was a bit sloppy, but security cam would show if he was in fear of life or not. In either case, sounds like he did society a favor.
He should have shouted “You left these valuables right here”. As he turned around, THEN blast him.
Monroe is 60% black. The clerk is toast.
Never had anyone point a gun at me, but there’s a very distinct side of me that would believe that my life was in danger so long as that person was still alive and had a gun in their hand. Perhaps because it would be. It wouldn’t ‘turn-off’ the moment they turned to (possibly/likely) leave the store. Shifting from survival mode in a deadly confrontation to “Oh, OK, everything’s alright now; no threat” would take me quite a bit longer than a split second.
Six times the guy (maybe the same guy) pulls a gun and threatens to shoot you. Do you really need to wait until your shot before you have the right of self defense.?
And that is a valid defense. I do hope the charge is dropped or dismissed. Is the DA one of those Soros a-holes?
Not enough details. Is this a situation where the robber was running away and the clerk shot him in the back?
I am armed every day and I dont go into Dollar stores at all.
Lots of them just point the gun over their shoulder and fire behind them.
If they have pointed the gun at you and threatened your life, if they still have the gun and are within range of you, they are still deadly threat, running away or not.
It is an invalid legal doctrine to say you have to wait for them to turn and shoot at you to react to the deadly threat which already exists and has already been demonstrated.
There are many cases where people have shot people who are running and deadly threats, and have either not been prosecuted, or won their case, based on self defense doctrine.
I would not care if it was.
The law is utterly failing to protect us. Summary killing of robbers and thieves is the fallback solution. Yes, that solution stinks on ice. A better solution would be to put thieves and robbers in prison for much longer terms when they get caught. They always get caught eventually.
The better solution requires District Attorneys and judges who will follow that path, and replacement of ones who won't follow that path. It also requires money for expansion of prison systems to hold more people for longer terms.
Or we can have vigilantes and "individual initiatives".
What will not continue is government that demands people be disarmed and submit to predators.
It’s a manslaughter case, which is the lightest charge for ending a life. The robber had a weapon, so the jury will likely acquit.
The clerk is black as well. They might just give him a fair hearing.
Info is sketchy but the best I can tell after reading several news reports about this was that the clerk shot the robber as he was fleeing the store
I don’t disagree with either of you. I was just wondering what the rationale of the state was to charge this man.
The way I read it, the store had been burglarized six times recently but not necessarily by the same man. Still, I would weight that fact pretty heavily in judging whether to charge the clerk or not. How can we blame someone whose workplace is regularly being assaulted like that for putting up a defense?
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