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'I can't believe I've been shot': Last words of man killed by retired police captain (truncated)
Daily Mail Online ^ | January 13, 2014 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 01/14/2014 2:04:00 PM PST by centurion316

A 43-year-old father was shot dead by a retired cop in a Florida cinema after a row about him texting his three-year-old daughter as they waited for the movie to start, witnesses said.

Chad Oulson was shot in front of his wife and horrified movie-goers during an argument with 71-year-old Curtis Reeves.

The victim's wife, Nicole, was injured in the shooting after holding her hands out to try to shield Mr Oulson during the confrontation at a movie theater near Tampa on Monday.

After Reeves fired at his chest the victim was heard saying: 'I can't believe I got shot', according to Fox News.

Reeves, who is facing life in prison if found guilty, has been charged with second-degree murder. During a hearing on Tuesday he appeared via video link, wearing a green suicide smock - a fire resistant outfit that can't be torn or turned into a noose.

The judge ruled he should be held without bond because of the severity of the charges, but the no bond ruling can't be confirmed until a live hearing with Reeves.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: concealedcarry; cop; crime; curtisreeves; donutwatch; murder; popacap; popcorn
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Apparently this guy didn't like people texting in the movie theater, even before the movie started. The penalty for noncompliance with demands to cease being death.

Of course, by federal law, retired law enforcement officer who meet certain conditions are permitted to concealed carry. It's just ordinary citizens who can be restricted from doing so in order to protect the public. I wonder who protects the public from retired LEO's?

1 posted on 01/14/2014 2:04:00 PM PST by centurion316
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To: centurion316

What was the movie?................


2 posted on 01/14/2014 2:08:22 PM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: centurion316

To serve, protect and defend-—yeh, right.


3 posted on 01/14/2014 2:10:14 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: Red Badger

“you can bet your ass it won’t be them Cheerios”


4 posted on 01/14/2014 2:10:46 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Red Badger

Lone Survivor


5 posted on 01/14/2014 2:11:30 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: centurion316

I’m withholding judgment. I don’t trust that the media has given us the whole story.


6 posted on 01/14/2014 2:12:23 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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The important thing is this retired police officer got home safe. /sarc

In a just world, he'd be hung from the neck until dead in front of the county courthouse.

7 posted on 01/14/2014 2:12:33 PM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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What is this?... Attack of the old people week?

There was an article on FR earlier today about an old guy attacking a wheelchair bound man in Walmart for going through the 20 item express lane with 22 items.

8 posted on 01/14/2014 2:14:34 PM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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To: centurion316
he appeared via video link, wearing a green suicide smock - a fire resistant outfit that can't be torn or turned into a noose.

Hell, I would give him a noose, a razor blade, and a bottle of potassium cyanide and save the state the expense of trying and housing him.

9 posted on 01/14/2014 2:14:39 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The War on Drugs has been used as an excuse to steal your rights. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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During the hearing, Reeves' attorney said he 'had every right to defend himself' after the victim threw a bag of popcorn at him.

Yeah, people are killed or seriously injured by thrown popcorn on a daily basis. </sarcasm>

10 posted on 01/14/2014 2:14:44 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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The lawyer’s going to argue that he felt an imminent danger of attack. Popcorn was thrown at him.

Really. That’s his “defense” at this point.


11 posted on 01/14/2014 2:16:53 PM PST by Deo volente (God willing, America shall survive this Obamanation.)
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Kept texting and apparently popcorn was thrown. It is going to take a while before the aphorisim that “an armed society is a polite society” takes effect at a day-to-day cultural level.


12 posted on 01/14/2014 2:16:54 PM PST by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.ha)
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In a just world, he'd be hung from the neck until dead in front of the county courthouse

So far it sounds like a clean self-defense shooting. The other man threw something at the ex-cop, he felt that he was in danger and shot the man.

I'm not sure how this couldn't be self-defense, but I'm sure they'll crucify him.
13 posted on 01/14/2014 2:17:22 PM PST by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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The other man threw something at the ex-cop, he felt that he was in danger and shot the man.

He allegedly threw popcorn at him. That justifies the use of deadly force?

14 posted on 01/14/2014 2:19:16 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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I believe he has to be in danger of great bodily harm. No one was ever killed or seriously wounded by flying popcorn kernels, to my knowledge.


15 posted on 01/14/2014 2:19:44 PM PST by Deo volente (God willing, America shall survive this Obamanation.)
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To: P.O.E.

Yeah, its pretty much the whole story. Several other threads about this in the last 24.

Fool is texting in the theater - BEFORE THE MOVIE STARTS.

Ex cop shoots him.

It’s a Floriduh thing.


16 posted on 01/14/2014 2:19:58 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: centurion316

Cops should not be allowed to carry firearms, and retired cops should be required to pass psychological exams to determine if they are fit to return to normal human status.


17 posted on 01/14/2014 2:22:47 PM PST by pallis
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The lawyer’s going to argue that he felt an imminent danger of attack. Popcorn was thrown at him.

"Look, look, look, Mr Knowall. The 16-ton weight is just ONE WAY of dealing with a popcorn killer. There are millions of others!"

18 posted on 01/14/2014 2:23:25 PM PST by dfwgator
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I take the cops side in this. All the guy had to do was shut off his damn cellphone. He got increasingly belligerent and the ex-cop obviously felt threatened.

I’m sick and tired of belligerent bullies. Mean people suck. Don’t be an ass, you never know who you’re dealing with and what they have on them.


19 posted on 01/14/2014 2:23:47 PM PST by TheRhinelander
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Somebody said "popcorn was thrown." Not that the victim threw popcorn, or that the shooter threw popcorn.

And throwing popcorn does not constitute lethal force in response.

Furthermore, this jackass menaced a woman at the same theater just a few weeks prior to the incident.

Hang him.

20 posted on 01/14/2014 2:24:23 PM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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