Posted on 08/17/2019 8:13:56 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
A jury found a grocery clerk guilty of killing a 17-year-old boy who ran out of the store with a beer he didn't pay for in Memphis, Tennessee, in a case that had sparked protests, authorities said.
Anwar Ghazali was convicted of second-degree murder after a four-day trial, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said Friday.
"This defendant took it upon himself to be the judge and jury and the executioner over a $2 beer," prosecutor Lora Fowler said, according to CNN affiliate WMC.
The shooting happened in March 2018, after Dorian Harris walked out of the Top Stop Shop with a beer without paying, Weirich said.
Security video of the incident played in court shows that Ghazali, while behind the counter dealing with another customer, pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Harris. He then ran outside to follow the teen and fired several times.
Afterward, he returned to the store and told a witness, "I think I shot him." He did not call the police, and neither did any other customer inside the store, WMC reported.
Harris was shot at least three times and was left to bleed out, Fowler said. His body was found two days later in a yard near the store with gunshots in the back of his thigh, Weirich said.
Ghazali's defense attorney, Blake Ballin, told CNN in an email that Ghazali maintains he acted recklessly that night but his intention was never to harm Harris.
He said they were pleased that the jury rejected the prosecution's argument that this was a calculated and premeditated murder motivated by the theft of a beer. That would have come with a potential life sentence.
Ghazali is expected to be sentenced on September 23.
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Yeh, you can’t really do that. You may want to but you just can’t do it.
It must've had only one clerk who did many different jobs: cashier, salesman, store detective, judge, jury, and executioner.
For businesses operating in higher crime areas, I see an effective way of stopping a lot of both shoplifting and armed robbery.
With common technology, some company should start mass producing “air locks” for businesses. Some exist already, for jewelry stores and pawn shops. The idea is simple.
When a customer enters the store, they push a door bell to request entry. Whoever is working in the store then pushes a button that allows the exterior door to open.
The customer, “one at a time, please”, then enters a large bullet resistant laminate ‘airlock’ box. Until the exterior door closes and locks again, the employee cannot open the inner door with a different button, about ten feet away from the first button.
And likewise they must get “buzzed out” with both buttons to leave.
The only additional need is for a steel back door with a peephole. Just these things alone make crime much harder, and if the employees are armed, very hard.
Brown attacked a police officer (after assaulting a storekeeper).
If the 17yo thief had attacked someone, this story would be different.
But, even if that were the case, the clerk at least should've called the police after he shot the teen.
In my old neighborhood, at the corner store, one day the storeowner shot a man. But that man had it coming: He'd just walked into the store and started shooting it up. Storeowner grabbed his own handgun from behind the counter and shot the perp. The perp ran out. Storeowner did everything right - he called the police. Perp was found to have been treated for gunshot wounds at a local hospital and then released.
Is the media reporting this story on national news? I only came across it by chance.
Maybe because the store clerk is Middle Eastern.
If the store clerk fit the description "white," then the media would be blaming Trump.
Interesting. Many stores in high-crime areas have bullet proof glass separating the clerk from the customers.
But then, there’s nothing to protect the customers from each other.
That store is about to pay a hell of a lot more in legal fees and lawsuits than a $2 beer.
There is a reason most stores have a policy not to chase down shoplifters. When you do, insurance and lawyers will tell you that you are on your own.
“Thou shall not steal.
Thou shall not murder.”..- Says the Chritian Holy Writings
Kill him if he does not convert to Islam...Says the MUZZY holy writings
Exo 22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
Exo 22:3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
The man was fleeing. The store owner failed to notify the authorities of the theft and shooting.
” the shop keeper said it had to be done. If not, everyone would come in and steal everything they had.”
That’s what these black neighborhoods have become. It isn’t just one kid that you can go find and let his father have disciplinary oversight. There are rarely fathers, and the thefts are rampant.
I'm reading the perp's mind, just like Lora Fowler reads minds.
Considering the neighborhood I don’t see the problem...
I am not reading anyone’s mind. In black letter law breaking and entering is an entirely different crime than shoplifting.
Only thing upsetting about this story is not knowing whether the bottle of beer was saved...
It wouldn’t be a brand you would drink. I promise you.
I wrote: "I'm reading the perp's mind, just like Lora Fowler reads minds."
I don't see anywhere in my post where I said you were reading anyone's mind.
BTW - if you hadn't noticed, the law is "in their mouth" these days...
The perp probably could have been saved. And made to do restitution- $2) What a shame. Such cruelty to let a person bleed to death. Not even call the police? Even if he was unsure he'd shot him. (Shooting into the dark night without a clear target. Even so....
“...And a few that left nasty notes on my car...”
We’re from a different and much, much better day, brother.
Yes I’m known as such a pussy
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