Posted on 08/13/2018 9:58:09 AM PDT by dragnet2
The Florida man who invoked the "stand your ground" self-defense after shooting a black man in a dispute over a parking space was charged Monday with manslaughter, officials said.
Michael Drejka, 47, was arrested Monday morning in the fatal shooting in July of Markeis McGlockton in Clearwater, Florida.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
“He shot the guy as the guy as he was walking away. Murder”
Have you read the law? No you haven’t. Why even post, just to be disruptive?
There is nothing in the law about if/when/how a person has to use ‘deadly force’. It basically outlines the conditions to trigger/justify the use of deadly force. It says ‘if this ...then this’. It is quite clear.
Drejka was battered, on the ground and his assailant took a step towards him. At that moment all conditions for Drejka to use deadly force were met. Drejka legally had right to use deadly force.
Yes, there was a delay between the first and second shots and yes, Drejka does have a history of verbal confrontations. However, it was his assailant who attacked, triggering the use of deadly force per FL self-defense statute. All caveats and conditions beyond the strict wording and meaning of the law are secondary. They are extenuating but essentially irrelevant.
Drejka has a “history”.”””
One thing about a trial——
The HISTORY of the dead guy will also be brought into court.
Bet you he isn’t a choir boy.
Thanks for posting the link with a related article.
There were several incidents described but the last one was quite interesting.
A couple of months ago, Drejka was in the same parking lot outside the same Circle A Food Store at 1201 Sunset Point Road arguing over the same handicap-reserved space, according to a man who said Drejka threatened to shoot him.
Rick Kelly, 31, told the Tampa Bay Times that Drejka circled his tanker truck and confronted him about why he parked there.
Kelly asked why it mattered. He recalled that Drejka said his mom (whom records show died in 2007) is handicapped.
The argument escalated. Drejka yelled, Kelly said, and used a racial slur. Kelly is black. Drejka is white.
Drejka, he said, threatened to shoot him. But the dispute didn’t end there.
Drejka called the Clearwater septic tank company Kelly works for to complain, telling owner John Tyler that he didn’t like the way Kelly had talked to him and that he was “lucky I didn’t blow his head off.”
Tyler, a gun owner himself, told the Times he was shocked.
“I said, ‘I’m sorry you feel that way, that you feel that it’s justified to take someone’s life over a parking space,’” he said. “That was the chilling part about it when I found out who it was with the (McGlockton) situation.”
GOOD! he needed to mind his own beeswax in the first place.
Wrong, video shows that the “victim” did not start to retreat until just a second after the gun was pulled and was still in striking range.
Actually, there is. Being pushed to the ground and then the other guy retreating is not a threat of death or serious bodily harm.
Bet you he isn’t a choir boy.
"McGlockton’s history included a drug conviction in 2010 and an arrest for aggravated battery a decade ago, records show, but the charge was dropped."
McGlockton's reaction was predictable.
Drejka is going to "prisum", however.
They HAVE to get him off the streets.
Did you read the article that I posted? He was rolling around town, brandishing all the way.
As usual, the police didn't take care of business and protect the peasantry from this loose cannon.
The gun-grabbers are making a play here.
Notice the tact of the Sheriff in this case. Came right out and said - no charges...stand your ground...that’s the law.
That was NOT a mistake - they were waiting for the worst looking SYG case they could to make this statement.
At the time - It went right through me - and sounded like appropriate boilerplate.
The sheriff’s office, citing the “stand your ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force when fearing “imminent death or great bodily harm,” did not arrest Drejka for the fatal shooting.
“He had to shoot to defend himself,” Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said in a statement obtained by CBS News. “And those are the facts and that’s the law.”
Let’s face it - we all know this is not a shining example of SYG - and I think a lot of gun owners aren’t comfortable with this guy being a poster child for CC.
But the remarks by the sheriff look like a play by the pro-gun control crowd. They want it to appear you can be shot for anything - and the cops can’t do anything about it.
Wrong, video shows that the “victim” did not start to retreat until just a second after the gun was pulled and was still in striking range.
John Tyler will be testifying for the prosecution...
Except that he did not start a confrontation with McGlockton.
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What would you do if you walked out of a store and found a man you didn’t know yelling at your wife/girlfriend? Invite him to lunch?
The shooter did the initial ‘confronting’.
Did you read the law? Did YOU watch the video?
When Drejka hits the ground the assailant took a step toward him.
AT THAT MOMENT FL’s use of deadly force was justified.
The most you can say is by taking a step back Drejka no longer had a “reasonable belief” that he was under threat of grievous bodily harm. But we’ll hear what he believed at trial and well, the law is written to favor people who are attacked. Imagine that.
Seems like I remember shooter drove around looking for people in handicapped spaces so he could confront them!!! Hard decision but it seems he was awfully quick to choose lethal force!!!
Not saying I disagree with you, I just thought of the view point of the guy on the ground. The “pusher” stepped back, turned sideways, and the “pushee” on the ground could no longer see the “pusher’s” right hand. Could have believed the “pusher” was reaching for his own gun.
I don’t like the whole situation.
Right on...I am CCW...I avoid any situation that might end in an argument!!!
Adrenaline from assault probably helped to pull the trigger.
Corrections, insights welcome.
I’d get in the car and leave.
The shooter said nothing to McGlockton.
McGlockton confronted the shooter.
You seem to live in Ass Backwards Land.
If all of this is true then I have no problem putting this character way for a long time.
Problem is, none of this will ever be brought up at trial. Sentencing maybe, but not trail.
This is the worst case scenario that liberals bray about and even us conservatives who support the “Stand Your Ground”laws worried about.
This man was just itching to use his weapon.
Adrenaline, fear, panic, anyone could have contributed.
He also was into flashing his "piece" after provoking road rage incidents.
Drejka is going down. The prosecutor was quietly collecting his nasty little history of "confrontations" - and there will be more people coming forward...
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