Posted on 08/17/2019 2:58:29 AM PDT by marktwain
The Green County Prosecutor in Missouri refused to charge Dmitriy Andreychenco with terrorist threat in the first degree. The charge was made in the 2nd degree. Dmitriy was open carrying in a Walmart
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- At about 4:10 p.m. on 8 August, 2019 Dmitriy Andreychenco parked in the parking lot of the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Springfield, Missouri. He took an tactical ballistic vest out of the car, put it on, and slung a AR type rifle. He walked into the store. He was open carrying and testing his Second Amendment rights, as confirmed by his wife and his sister. He had his phone in his hand and was recording himself as he pushed a cart through the store. He never pointed the firearm at anyone or made any verbal or written threat. The Walmart manager stated he heard an employee say that Dmitriy was coming into the store with the vest and the rifle. He observed Dmitriy walking in the store aisles. He told an employee to pull the fire alarm in order to get people to evacuate the store.
Dmitriy evacuated the store with the rest of the customers. As he left the store, another armed citizen pointed a gun at him and held him for police.
The police took Dmitry into custody without incident. A video shows him acting calmly and carefully following police commands. Police quickly determined he was not a threat, as the store manager had assumed.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Anyone read the statute at the site? I would go with #3 as my defense.
3. No offense is committed under this section by a person acting in good faith with the purpose to prevent harm.
“Your honor... I came well prepared to defend and protect other shoppers from any possible deranged mass shooters.” :)
Read #21 Bert.
Grandstanding idiot. This is not helpful.
574.120. Making a terrorist threat, second degree — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of making a terrorist threat in the second degree if he or she recklessly disregards the risk of causing the evacuation, quarantine or closure of any portion of a building, inhabitable structure, place of assembly or facility of transportation and knowingly:
(1) Communicates an express or implied threat to cause an incident or condition involving danger to life; or
(2) Communicates a false report of an incident or condition involving danger to life; or
(3) Causes a false belief or fear that an incident has occurred or that a condition exists involving danger to life.
2. The offense of making a terrorist threat in the second degree is a class E felony.
3. No offense is committed under this section by a person acting in good faith with the purpose to prevent harm.
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(L. 2014 S.B. 491)
Effective 1-01-17
This guy was looking to be arrested.
Yep. What he did was suicidal. Probably another Eastern European fetal alcohol baby from the ‘90s.
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I agree, read #21 and # 24.
They would be surprised how many people carry in WalMart and other places. We carry concealed for a reason. It’s no ones business if we are armed and legally licensed.
Even in other places not allowed you run into carried situations. I was talking to a little old lady in a hospital waiting room about not being allowed to carry in there. I told here I hate leaving my weapon at home. She pulled a 38 snub nose out of her purse and showed me that she did not care for their rules either.
The only way to fix this antigun hysteria is to throw it in their faces in mass. Every Monday should be declared National open carry day and do it. Several things will happen.
1. Thousands who panic and report someone will be told by the officers that it is legal and there is nothing can be done about it “scary” or not.
2.Crime incident statistics would drop to almost 0 on Mondays proving a point.
3. It will be shown that mass open carry is not “dangerous” because very few if any events will happen.
4. After several weeks it will become psychologically “normal” to see folks open carrying and it will start to be ignored and accepted as normal for Mondays.
LOLOL
It wasn’t a Tactical Ballistic Vest in reality was it???
I don’t understand why there should be any charge at all. The young man was just open-carrying for all to see whilst protecting himself against the poaaibiity of any miscreant shooter in the store, He was not endangering anyone, just exercising his Constitutional rights.
That’s a very poor excuse for denying any citizen his/her Constitutional rights. Actually, the very reason that kind of anti-Constitutional sabotage should be challenged. I’d love to see ten such law-abiding persons similarly defensively armed with protective clothing enter a Walmart together.
Dumbwitti ironically probably has a Civil suit for assault (brandishing, detention). He certainly has damage$ in this criminal mess ... That in turn backed the prosecutor into a corner to try and make the third charge misdemeanor stick, to obfuscate this doofus’ coming civil suits.
The jury is gonna hear, “if you had the gun , why did you need the vest?” Regardless that it’s legal, that’s gonna put the hook in him.
In south Carolina you can only do a citizens arrest if the perp is committing a felony
Bless you heart...
I hope when you are wrongly accused and arrested you find allies with a little more sense than what you have shown here.
Actually, that is a false approach to what true liberty really means. Just because you can does mean you really should, if there is anyone who says, "You can't do that!"
This is the very point at which those who wish to unlawfully interfere with another's freedom should be challenged. This is the very point that determines whether or not one is going to in fact behave like a "liberal-for-me-but-not-for-thee" kind of pragmatist despite one's professed but hypocritical phony "conservatism."
This speaks to your own "moment of truth."
If there is a law, you test it and get arrested anyway, then the law or peoples understanding of it is faulty. While this guy pushed the limit to the extreme, it was an effective demonstration of the anti 2nd Amendment crowds delusion.
In NC, I frequently see folks open carrying holstered sidearms in Wal Mart, gas stations, the mall, etc.. While I prefer to keep mine concealed, nobody gets hysterical and confronts them.
Actually, this is the perfect time to show that this is exactly the moment when Second Amendment lawful carry of equally deadly weapons should be demonstrated everywhere lest there be a copycat shooter ready to start his/her own mayhem.
Where were the concealed carry patrons at the El Paso incident? This young man might have simply been asked by a store manager or roaming security to consider the effect on other patrons, or even walk around with the young man to see that his freedom to carry open in the store was not interfered with. I believe that all Walmarts have (armed ?) security in clerk's disguise walking around the store to recognize and deal with difficult situations.
No, that is not within the ordinary citizen's purview. You protect and defend yourself and your own. The 2nd Amndt calls others to protect themselves. If they happen to benefit from your own self-protection activity, ok; but if not, too bad. They have their own responsibility, and if choose not to exercise their 2Amdt rights, it's on them, not you.
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