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.
Here in the state of Washington you can use “reasonable force” to prevent a felony. So if someone is stealing something out of your store, or vandalizing it - you can use reasonable force.
The question then becomes what is “reasonable”.
There was a case awhile ago where a neighbor saw his next door neighbor’s house getting robbed. He went and got his bow and shot the burglar in the butt with a hunting broadhead as the thief was loading a TV into his trunk. I can’t recall if he yelled at the thief to stop or not.
The cops said the “shooting” was justified. BUT - if the guy had hit the thief in the chest and killed him - it wouldn’t have been!? That doesn’t make sense to me.
You are correct. IN Texas you can use deadly force to protect property, but only after dark!
“brazen thief, Defoe — a multiple felon —”...
Nope, he’s not needed here anymore.
India has the second largest Muslim population in the world, and Pakistan is majority Muslim.
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Your confusion appears deliberate.
The store keeper was attempting to apprehend and arrest the thief.
He has the constitutional right to do so.
If he did not have that right, then neither could anyone else, including any ‘police’ or other governmental body.
The only constitutional power of arrest that exists is the citizen’s power of arrest.
I know my efforts are like trying to put gold into your toothpaste tube, but so be it.
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So let me get this straight. You actually believe the shooter had a lawful right to shoot a fleeing thief from point blank range when that thief presented no danger at all to the shooter or anyone else? Have I got that right?
Dude; you will end up in prison one day if you believe and try doing this yourself. Not even a cop has the lawful right to do that.
I think you need to work on your toothpaste tube some more. Maybe try opening the bottom end and fill it that way.
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Apprehending a criminal that has committed theft against you is a right.
The thief was actively attempting to evade capture.
You’re actively attempting to perpetrate a false narrative here.
That is your standard MO on this subject.
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>> “Not even a cop has the lawful right to do that.” <<
Wow!
No cop has any right that the entire population lacks.
How do you leftie loons end up here?
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I dunno. You’ve been here since Feb. 1998. That’s a long time for a leftist to be lurking here. What happened; DU get too boring for you?
When you were working on Hitlery’s election PAC; did you ever go out for “pizza”? Aren’t you and Podesta close (very close) bud’s? Did Hitlery ever invite you into their Manhattan penthouse?
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Will you ever tire of being a dip$hit?
I suppose that depends on if you will ever get a clue.
It’s troubling you don’t know a crime from a dime.
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You leftie loons are always trying to turn life into a crime.
The shop owner was apprehending a criminal, after witnessing a crime.
Morally, and constitutionally he committed no crime.
Morally your posts are a crime against America and common sense.
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Talking with you is about as productive as hitting one’s head up against the wall.
All one gets from it is a headache.
Don’t you have some illegals to smuggle or something? Maybe give Mad Maxine her bath...
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Your problem is that there is ought but K9 poop in your craniun.
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Really? That’s all you got? My K9 could do better. Even the dumb one.
Attention Morons: if you allow citizens to take a life over $40 worth of beer, then you open the door wide for government to take lives over $40, or less. Let's try to pretend that life is meaningful and valuable, shall we? Jail and prison and police and security cameras still exist. You don't have to murder a dumbass to exact your revenge or deter future theft.
I hope the beer wasn’t injured.
Regardless of the outcome, it will cost the store owner a lot more than the cost of three 18-packs.
That'll slow ya down ...
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