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Florida Store Owner Arrested for Opening Fire on Fleeing Beer Thief
The Truth About Guns ^ | 07/19/18 | Dan Zimmerman

Posted on 07/19/2018 10:49:11 AM PDT by Simon Green

Here’s a pro tip: don’t learn the law and the rules of armed self defense the hard way. A Lakeland, Florida gas station owner., Mehedeun Hasan, is in serious legal jeopardy after shooting a fleeing beer thief.

An owner of a convenience store in Lakeland has been charged with attempted murder after shooting at a man accused of stealing three cases of beer.

Polk County Sheriff’s Office officials said Rennie Defoe, 43, of Plant City, walked out of the Shell gas station on Combee Road North with three 18-packs of Natural Ice Beer without paying Tuesday.

The stores owners, Mehedeun Hasan and his father Q M Monsur Rahman, followed Defoe out of the store to confront him, according to authorities.

While no store owner wants to see his hard-earned money walk out the door in the arms of a brazen thief, Defoe — a multiple felon — clearly presented no danger to either Hasan or Rahman. Yet both followed him out of the store where Hasan shot him as he drove away.

Officials said a bullet struck Defoe through his left arm and chest. As he fled the area he crashed his car at intersection of East Main Street and Fish Hatchery Road, deputies said.

Defoe is listed in critical condition at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center.

Hasan faces attempted second-degree murder charges and shooting into an occupied vehicle.

And all over three cases of Natty Ice. Here’s hoping that Defoe recovers, if for no other reason than avoiding having Hasan’s charge upgraded to second degree murder.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; florida; lakeland
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To: Responsibility2nd
Convenience store and all....

Gas stations are usually Chaldeans.......

21 posted on 07/19/2018 11:06:05 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: Simon Green

. o O (It looked like the car was going towards someone who was walking along the street, I only had seconds to decide if I’d let them kill that person or not...)

Get a good defense attorney and explore all the laws, FL could be like California and they could claim PTSD from previous robberies requires them to be diverted to therapy rather than charged with a crime. (and in California, the judge would be required to allow it and vacate the charge when diversion therapy was completed.)


22 posted on 07/19/2018 11:06:05 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Simon Green
He forgot to say


23 posted on 07/19/2018 11:07:38 AM PDT by BBell (Antifa are like house cats. One squirt from a squirt bottle and they scatter.)
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To: Simon Green
Reminiscent of (bully Brown) stealing and threatening the store owner at the same time...since he is black it is okay...wonder if video, (Rennie Defoe Jr.) will cause the same unbalanced uproar Browns actions did....Defoe is a common thief....
24 posted on 07/19/2018 11:10:29 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Simon Green

Or, just do it in Texas.


25 posted on 07/19/2018 11:11:04 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: RightGeek
3 18 packs! Maybe he was thirsty?

He obviously wasn’t going to a BYOB party because it wasn’t his beer.

26 posted on 07/19/2018 11:14:48 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: IC Ken
Remember when criminals were locked away?

Yep and thieves were hung on the spot.

We should publicly shame and flog lesser thieves:


27 posted on 07/19/2018 11:15:14 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: Simon Green

The law is wrong, and immoral.


28 posted on 07/19/2018 11:16:14 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Simon Green

What kind of beer?


29 posted on 07/19/2018 11:18:39 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Simon Green

What if you just had some kind of trip cord you could snap up in the doorway as he runs out the door? He’s not going to stop and pick up the beer.


30 posted on 07/19/2018 11:20:55 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; BigEdLB

> I suspect a Paki or Indian dude. Convenience store and all.... <

Mehedeun Hasan - My first thought was that he’s Indian, as I know an Indian with a first name close to that. But ‘Hasan’, that’s Islamic. So I think Ed is right.


31 posted on 07/19/2018 11:22:00 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: DCBryan1

Both of those would be great for the typical politician and worthless bureaucrat.


32 posted on 07/19/2018 11:23:29 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: Simon Green

You can’t kill to protect your property, or your life savings. Just the left’s way of “redistributing” income, by letting the “oppressed” waltz in and take what is “rightfully” theirs.


33 posted on 07/19/2018 11:24:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: Dapper 26

“t is ridiculous to assume that unless there is bodily harm, one cannot protect their property or deter thieves, that we have to wait till there is death or injury.”

Easy. Just learn your state’s laws.
In Maryland, it’s OK.
In Virginia, you go to prison.


34 posted on 07/19/2018 11:25:34 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: ConservativeMind

that isn’t what the video shows. The guy grabbed three packs of beer and walked out the door, didn’t go toward the counter where the employees were. He got in his car and the clerk ran after him dropping his gun then grabbing it and going up to the car as the guy was backing out. Just off camera he shot the guy.


35 posted on 07/19/2018 11:26:00 AM PDT by Dad was my hero
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To: ConservativeMind

The thief got his reward for being stupid, but the store owner was definitely not standing his ground. Watch the video and there is no direct threat from the thief. He might have shot out the tires, he had the time. Very poor judgement from both parties.


36 posted on 07/19/2018 11:26:15 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: \/\/ayne

> What if you just had some kind of trip cord you could snap up in the doorway as he runs out the door? <

Unfortunately, that would probably make you a defendant in a personal injury lawsuit. With the right jury, you’d win the case. But it would cost you thousands in legal fees to do so.

So even if you win, you lose. Ain’t the law grand?


37 posted on 07/19/2018 11:27:45 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Simon Green

“He had muh beer”.


38 posted on 07/19/2018 11:27:57 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: Simon Green
Rennie Defoe, 43, of Plant City, walked out of the Shell gas station on Combee Road North with three 18-packs of Natural Ice Beer without paying Tuesday.

If you're going to shoot, at least shoot someone taking GOOD beer. /sarc


39 posted on 07/19/2018 11:28:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Simon Green
If the thief had been committing grand theft, or if the crime included a forcible felony such as strong arm robbery, the shooting could have been justifiable—at least to a jury.

There are instances (at least in Florida) where deadly force can be used to protect valuable property, but not in the case of mere petit theft, as it's legally called...

40 posted on 07/19/2018 11:28:53 AM PDT by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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