Posted on 11/07/2013 4:40:30 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Family members of the two masked men shot to death after allegedly robbing a store in Reading spoke out Tuesday.
"It's not fair," said Virginia Medina, mother of 24-year-old William Medina, who police said robbed Krick's Korner store alongside 18-year-old Robert De Carr on Monday.
The two men were shot and killed by a private citizen while leaving the store, and family members want to see charges pressed.
"[William] had no right to lose his life over something that man could have called the police for," said Medina. "He took the law into his own hands and walked away scot-free."
"How about if people just start running around here, policing the city on their own? How much worse is it going to get?" said Peter Ratel, Medina's cousin.
The family members said they are hurt by comments suggesting the alleged robbers were "thugs."
According to Medina, William was "no big hard criminal" and was rather a family-man who loved his young daughter.
Robert De Carr was described similarly by his sister, Taylor De Carr. "My brother was a good kid," she told 69 News.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfmz.com ...
They identified the robber’s race? (The video isn’t working for me)
Ms. Medina, if your loved one had shot the citizen, that would have been a crime and an injustice.
Tru dat. Raise a criminal, become a millionaire. We have people with no morals and no conscience.
Timber Rattler said:Google "police shoot dog" and get back to us.
Or AW could just google cop shoots unarmed boy carrying an airsoft bb gun in the back 7 times without warning. 99.9% of the stories FReepers jump cops about are justifiable from the FReeper side.
There is a picture at the link-
I think they may be WHITE Latino’s!! lol
So Sharpton might not come to the rescue-
I would NOT take that bet.
That HAS to be a joke.
Children and dogs come right to mind, as well as anal cavitity searches and pointing automatic rifles at peoples faces during traffic stops, along with unnumbered SWAT home invasions for minor reasons.
If any of the stolen lottery tickets were winners, who gets the money?
Justice for the suspects? Works for me...give the guy who sent them from this world a medal and the key to the city.
Representative of the fast-growing entitlement mentality among Obama’s people.
They see the President of the United States putting a gun to the head of America and taking whatever he pleases, and assume they can do the same and that anyone who tries to stop them must be doing something wrong - or at least “unfair.”
No, the police probably would have missed.
“My brother was a good kid. He was turning his life around. He only robbed a few stores now and then to feed his kids and train for a future of robbing banks.”
Perhaps - But if the shooting was in response to the perps pulling their own weapons first, the vast majority of posters would be lauding the cops.
Numbers are 27,492. sources are Free Republic and newspapers and TV news shows.
You gotta be a cop or a copwannabe. Look around you. LEO’s have turned into seal wannabes. All that great black gear and APC’s make the desire to use it and all their special training. Gotta kill somtin, is that your dog?
They appear to be mixed race—white/black or black/white.
I’m sure the grieving family members would have told the robbers to take back their illegal haul of lottery tickets and cigarettes.
Yeah ...
Saved the taxpayers a lot of money in food, lodging, and legal fees, too.
Damn. He was just trying to hold on to his part-time job in a difficult economy. It’s getting to where welfare might just pay better than robbery.
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