Posted on 05/27/2011 6:21:20 PM PDT by MizSterious
POSTED: 5:51 pm CDT May 27, 2011
UPDATED: 6:07 pm CDT May 27, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Some Oklahomans are outraged over the conviction of pharmacist Jerome Ersland, and they are turning to social media to voice their opinions.
A jury found Ersland guilty of murder in connection with the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Antwun Parker, sparking a backlash of citizens outraged with the verdict.
Dozens of calls have been made to Gov. Mary Fallin's office along with messages posted on the governor's Facebook wall, asking her to pardon Ersland.
"For us to punish someone who was protecting his employees and his business was really unlawful," said resident Brandy Crawford. "I feel bad for all the families involved. I really feel bad for the mother losing her child the way she did. But when people commit crimes, they have to understand there are consequences to that crime."
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Maybe. If a SWAT team did the same thing, it would be a “good shoot” because “cops deserve to go home at night”.
“And no, we won’t be able to have a grown up conversation about it.”
That would be a shame. It’s 150 years since the beginning of another sort of solution to an American problem, one other countries also had but solved relatively peacefully. And what have we learned?
I agree with that.
It started out as self-defense and ended as premeditated murder.
It was all on tape...the investigators would have figured out how many bullets were fired.
There are actually many parallels between the two cases. Like the SWAT team in the Guerena case, Ersland fired far more rounds than necessary and endangered anyone in the vicinity - and Ersland made sure that his target was dead before any medical help could arrive. And in both cases, there’s video.
Ah, thread stalking. Very nice.
It started out as self-defense and ended as premeditated murder.
Well I was just saying that after the guy was shot in the head and laying on the floor, what threat did he pose? I think it was a bit over-kill on the part of the pharmacist. Then too, some of his statements to the police and investigators didn’t stand up. Just saying.
Okie, (no pun intended) Dokie, so, if the pharmacist hadn’t emptied the magazine, and the Frenchman Antwun had died anyway, the pharmacist would have gotten off?
Thanks for ignoring my grammar.
False. There is nothing on tape that shows whether Antwun was conscious or unconscious or whether he was moving or not.
Then he lied about what he did.
Nothing that happens in trying circumstances can be described as “premedidated”. Did he plan it days, weeks, hours ahead? Did he plan it?
I think we learned that Al Sharpton, Shiela Jacson Lee and the Black Caucus won't let us move on because ther is too much money in poverty pimping. 0b0z0 has made a living off of that. Sorry, you were foolishly trying to be reasonable. FReegards
The law does not provide for any free time outs.
He obviously planned it - he looked at the crook, he went back, walked behind the counter,, retrieved another weapon and then walked back over and fired five rounds into the guy.
I thought it started as an attempted armed robbery and ended as an attempted armed robbery.
“The law is a ass”. The law now says, go ahead rob those drugstores, the pharmacists have been intimidated now!
Ersland's demeanor as he finished him off was nonchalant, not the body language of a man dealing with someone who was harassing or resisting.
Ersland was not exactly following the old eightfold path on that one.
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