Posted on 06/12/2014 12:12:08 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Lakesha Thompson sports a particularly warped view of the entitlement mindset:
An elderly man shot and killed a would-be burglar inside his Oak Cliff home.
Police say the homeowner saw Deyfon Pipkins, 33, trying to climb into the window and fired his weapon at least once at the intruder.
The homeowner is legally protected by the Castle Doctrine, which allows a person to defend his or her home against an intruder.
“It means they don’t actually have to retreat once someone comes in their home,” Sergeant Calvin Johnson, Dallas Police Department, said. “You have the option of using deadly force if you believe your life is in danger.”
After police notified relatives of Pipkins’ death, some showed up at the house. They were upset, and questioned the homeowner’s actions.
“He could have used a warning,” Lakesha Thompson, Pipkins’ sister-in-law, said. “He could have let him know that he did have a gun on his property and he would use it in self-defense.”
Pipkins had a lengthy criminal record. He served time in prison and was convicted of theft, possession of a Controlled Substance and criminal trespassing.
Thompson almost seems to view home invasion as a “no-harm, no foul” game until someone in her family earns a bullet as a result of his criminal activity.
It bears noting that the homeowner had been robbed repeatedly before this incident.
Did you hear about the Dyslexic Satanist’s that sold their souls to Santa?
HaHahah!!!
I doubt this family played much scrabble but he may have stolen a set during one of his robberies....
HaHaha!!!
When a man is breaking into my house, the possibilty that he also has a gun is very real. He knows in his endeavor that I would defend my house if I could. Therefore, it is a logical conclusion that he may well have a gun too. Statistics prove that that assumption is correct. Knowing that, I intend to take advantage of my chance of gaining that edge. I will shoot first in every case. It’s only logical to defend your property and family.
Deyfon and Lakesha?
What would be the origin of those two great names?
Oak Cliff? Once an affluent area, now an effluent area. Get the hell outta there!!
True, just as it is traditional for gypsies and multi-generational welfare families to not work for a living.
I’m surprised the family didn’t demand the property he was after to steal.
No, It’s Amish.
the deceased criminal’s family showed up at the guy’s house...
i would have feared for my life again and again and again, how many of them are there? reload of crap.
Deyfon? That’s the stupidist name I’ve heard in a while. Want your son to become a criminal? - name him Deyfon! That’s a name to live down to. Anyone named Deyfon ought to be shot.
No, it’s what happens when you allow functional illiterates to name their children. I know you were being sarcastic, but it’s something that drives me nuts. It just seems to me people see these made-up retarded names and assume that the person in question is an idiot (or at least the lineal descendant of one) and can make things that much harder for them in life. I feel the same way for that idiot with the last name of Hogg who named his daughters “ima” and “ura”. Your name is your calling card and it’s usually the first thing people find out about you. Nothing like a strike against you coming out of the gate.
CC
His mama must have wanted to call someone right after he be born. Deyfon! Deyfon! Where be Deyfon?
But he was just trying to steal some stuff to get money to turn his life around. Don’t you understand?
Lakesha Thompson
When police arrived, they found Pipkins’ lifeless body hanging from the open window.
Pipkins mother, Catherine Pipkins, arrived as police were investigating. She was not surprised.
“Yeah, it’s something he would do ... Somebody called me and said my son got shot that’s the reason I’m standing here,” she told NBC 5.
Deyfon Pipkins has spent a lot of time in the Dallas County jail over the past decade, having been arrested a half dozen times on theft charges since 2003.
A white police truck and officers partially blocked him from view.
Cathryn Pipkins said that police told her that her son, Deyfon Pipkins, 33, was shot breaking into the home. She said she has not seen the body.
Authorities had not confirmed the man’s identity. Police have provided no details.
Cathryn Pipkins ran past police cars and through the crime scene Monday and shouted, “Where’s my baby at?”
After speaking with police, she stood outside the home, behind the yellow crime tape and flashing police cars that surrounded it, and cried.
“If they let me see him, I can tell them,” she said. “I’m strong enough for it. I told him if something like this happened, I would be strong.”
You’re right about that. Break into someone’s home and all bets are off. Of course, the intruder could have been Obama’s younger brother...
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