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.
Gas stations are usually Chaldeans.......
. 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.)
(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....
Or, just do it in Texas.
He obviously wasn’t going to a BYOB party because it wasn’t his beer.
Yep and thieves were hung on the spot.
We should publicly shame and flog lesser thieves:
The law is wrong, and immoral.
What kind of beer?
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.
> 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.
Both of those would be great for the typical politician and worthless bureaucrat.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
> 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?
“He had muh beer”.
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...
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